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Post by MMM on Jul 17, 2006 20:48:14 GMT -5
I'm glad you mentioned the V.I.P., Al. It doesn't seem to get enough recognition. I'm not sure what the rooms are like inside, but the place looks really nice/well taken care of from the outside. Architecturally, the two floors adds to its neat "look", though I wonder how long it can last with only two floors...
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 18, 2006 0:12:28 GMT -5
i stayed at the Tangiers in October last year during the pt cruiser show last summer which is right across the street from the Cape Cod. The motel was very busy at the time and looked to be in great shape. How was the Tangiers, Hulk? It is a nice motel the pool could use a little work but i would go back in a second. Also the owner of the place seems to be standing his ground. |
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 18, 2006 0:19:28 GMT -5
I believe you guys are right on with the tangiers having a 3rd floor added. If you look from the other side you can see the balcony for the 3rd floor is dif. Free plug for the Tangiers, its a nice little place(not the ritz, but then again no place in ww is). I really enjoyed it last year.
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 18, 2006 0:24:01 GMT -5
This message is for Al. I know you stayed at the 24th street many times. I stayed there once back in 2000. A strange question but i was always curious to know what where the dif color tiles for the bathrooms. I know there was green,pink,yellow and blue- was there a bathroom with white tiles?
Its small things like that(crazy as i may sound that gave all the older ww motels their own special feel.
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Post by Al Alven on Jul 18, 2006 8:10:49 GMT -5
I'm glad you mentioned the V.I.P., Al. It doesn't seem to get enough recognition. I'm not sure what the rooms are like inside, but the place looks really nice/well taken care of from the outside. Architecturally, the two floors adds to its neat "look", though I wonder how long it can last with only two floors... Totally agree, Martin. In fact, unless I'm forgetting something (and I could very well be), I believe the VIP is the only block-long motel in the Crest that never built a third floor. With so many places now adding third, fourth and even fifth floors (not to mention the bigger motels on the east side of Ocean Ave.), this place really is a neat little throwback. |
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Post by Al Alven on Jul 18, 2006 8:20:12 GMT -5
This message is for Al. I know you stayed at the 24th street many times. I stayed there once back in 2000. A strange question but i was always curious to know what where the dif color tiles for the bathrooms. I know there was green,pink,yellow and blue- was there a bathroom with white tiles? Its small things like that(crazy as i may sound that gave all the older ww motels their own special feel. Doesn't sound crazy at all, Hulk; It definitely is the little things like this that always gave the motels (and WW in general) that special feel you mentioned. I don't remember white-tiled bathrooms at the 24th Street, to tell you the truth. Though we stayed there many times over the years, we usually got the same room (201) every year. The tiles in that room were pink. When my family expanded a few years back, we started getting three rooms, so we also booked 202 and 203. The tiles there were blue and yellow. I also seem to remember either staying in or at least looking into a room that had green bathroom tiles like you mentioned, but I'm not sure if there were white tiles in any of the rooms or not. As always, I'll ask my parents, though. They started staying at the 24th Street long before I was born (in '78), so they'd probably know. |
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 18, 2006 22:39:43 GMT -5
When i stayed at the 24th I had the green tiled bathroom. Small bathrooms with alot of character(the bathtubs were kind of small if I remember correctly). I guess that's why i also like the Tangiers, they also have the fully tiled bathroom that the new motels don't have. Reminds me of my late grandmother's house.
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 18, 2006 22:45:14 GMT -5
How many rooms were there to a floor at the 24th? Because I'm guessing three floors 5 rooms per floor 5 dif colored bathrooms. I'm really confusing myself because I'm sure the 24th had more than 15 rooms. If there was no white one color had to repeat itself on a certain floor.
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Post by Al Alven on Jul 19, 2006 8:14:57 GMT -5
How many rooms were there to a floor at the 24th? Because I'm guessing three floors 5 rooms per floor 5 dif colored bathrooms. I'm really confusing myself because I'm sure the 24th had more than 15 rooms. If there was no white one color had to repeat itself on a certain floor. Actually, I believe the 24th St. was a pretty sizable little place (if that makes any sense). The third floor, I know, had 9 rooms across. The first and second floors ran into the stairwell at the south end near the office. So, I don't remember whether they had that many rooms or not. But, it's quite possible that the motel had as many as 27 units; and at least 21. |
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 19, 2006 22:08:11 GMT -5
There were also some larger "efficiencies" that were over the office as well i think.
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 19, 2006 22:09:30 GMT -5
And as stated with the Tangiers before, wasn't the 3rd fllor of the 24th added on also?
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 21, 2006 23:09:40 GMT -5
One more question Al. As long as you have been going to the 24th was the Hawaiian Rumble always across the street or was something else there? Looks like it's been around for awhile.
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Post by hulk007 on Jul 24, 2006 23:27:58 GMT -5
To answer the question on the Tangiers having a 3rd floor or not. There is currently a postcard on ebay of the Tangiers from 1964 showing only 2 floors. The sign is different and it looks like the Hialeah was not even built yet. Check it out on ebay, the item is up until the 30th of July.
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Post by crazyaboutwildwood on Jul 25, 2006 8:55:18 GMT -5
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Post by FlyinGN on Jul 25, 2006 10:18:31 GMT -5
wow.....
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