Affordable hotel brand Loge transformed a 1960s
motor lodge into a surf retreat with accommodations for all budgets, including tent and RV sites, dorm-style bunk rooms, and suites.
The year is 1959 and the modernist, two-story Fenway
Motor Lodge opens at 1271 Boylston Street, shouting distance from Fenway Park's right-field wall.
The site, located at 2836 Tulane Ave., was once home to the former Le Petit Motel, a 1950s-style
motor lodge. The current owners, listed in the Louisiana Secretary of State's records as Bahram Khoobehi, Hossain Mogharehabed and Mahmood Mogharehabed under an LLC named 2820 Tulane, acquired the property in 2017 for $550,000 and demolished the derelict structure in April.
The motel, which started as the Midway
Motor Lodge, has undergone several transitions, but recently closed for remodeling.
Just as Santa Rosa (and nearby cities in California's wine country--Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties) faced disaster, the ambitious remodel of a 1963
motor lodge in Santa Rosa, The Astro motel came to life.
But when he discovered the 1950s-era Malibu Shores
motor lodge in 2014 -- across the street from where he grew up surfing the breaks at First Point--the answer became inevitable.
First opened in 1965 as the Gold Rush
Motor Lodge, the Northern Lights Hotel was rebuilt five years later after a fire, identified as arson, killed five guests.
Terry worked as a chambermaid for the Old Sturbridge Village
Motor Lodge for 21 years before retiring many years ago.
The charred bodies of Rommel Clarino, 43, and Joana yIraula, 22, were discovered by police and Goa Fire Department on Wednesday at Papillion
Motor Lodge in Barangay (village) Tagongtong.
Chief Inspector Chito Oyardo, chief of police, said the fatalities are still unidentified although it seemed the two were lovers as they had checked in at the Pavilion
Motor Lodge last Monday.
motor lodge - a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area