Tod Motor Motel - Las Vegas, NV (photo taken in 2016)
The Tod Motor Motel has one of my favorite vintage signs in Las Vegas. It is one of several mid-century motels on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip - Address: 1508 Las Vegas Blvd., S. The motel opened in 1962, with 85 units, wall-to-wall-carpeting, and a telephone and TV set in every room. Patrons entered the parking lot through a porte cochere with a folded plate canopy and checked into a multi-story building adorned with metal screens across its façade. Along one of Las Vegas’ “motel rows,” the Tod was near impossible to miss, due to its giant V-shaped sign… topped with a giant neon sphere… a cherry? a globe?... I don’t know, but it sure looked cool. I bet that it used to spin. Today, the Tod Motor Motel looks much as it did in the 1960s. The metal screens have been removed from the building and the pool emptied, but the bones are still there. I wish this was a boutique hotel like the Austin Motel in Austin, TX or the Hotel McCoy in Tucson, AZ. I'd stay here in a heartbeat.
Tod Motor Motel - Las Vegas, NV (photo taken in 2016)
The Tod Motor Motel has one of my favorite vintage signs in Las Vegas. It is one of several mid-century motels on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip - Address: 1508 Las Vegas Blvd., S. The motel opened in 1962, with 85 units, wall-to-wall-carpeting, and a telephone and TV set in every room. Patrons entered the parking lot through a porte cochere with a folded plate canopy and checked into a multi-story building adorned with metal screens across its façade. Along one of Las Vegas’ “motel rows,” the Tod was near impossible to miss, due to its giant V-shaped sign… topped with a giant neon sphere… a cherry? a globe?... I don’t know, but it sure looked cool. I bet that it used to spin. Today, the Tod Motor Motel looks much as it did in the 1960s. The metal screens have been removed from the building and the pool emptied, but the bones are still there. I wish this was a boutique hotel like the Austin Motel in Austin, TX or the Hotel McCoy in Tucson, AZ. I'd stay here in a heartbeat.