Hotel gone, sign still there???

[wildwood4life]

Thats a great find....I fond it a few months back and photographed it also, but I'm still pretty new to the whole taking photos and all, and didn't do too much research on the Bali-Hi

[Rob Ascough]

I'm pretty sure that the street sign for the "new" Carousel (old Hyaleah) was standing in July, even though the building was gone.

Interesting about the Biscayne and the Bali-Hi.

[novacancy]

Oh, that breaks my heart. Back in the 70's, we would stay at the Lampliter motel and sit out by the pool in the evenings. It looked magical. We would look across the empty lots (now Beldon's Coastal Colors) to the strip of motels on the other side (Tempo, Frontier, Silver Beach...all now gone) and their glowing signage that cut through the night fog. Behind those motels I could see the cheery Bali Hi sign poking up. I think also the Blue Water. In further distance the Granada sign looked cool with it's neon guitar. Oh....this makes me sad.

[fuzzyscorpio]

It is heartbreaking what has happened to the Crest, and sometimes a random detail or visual snippet will cause a sharp twist of the knife. I ran across a really good postcard image of the Frontier on eBay a few weeks ago and the sight of that motel caught me totally off guard. I felt like I'd been kicked in the gut. The Frontier was only a few blocks north of the Atlantis/Internationale where we stayed in the 50s and 60s, so I guess I have a deep-seated memory of it from those days, probably from walking up to the neighboring Silver Beach to get ice cream cones... This is why it's so important to try to keep a fire under the idea of a collaborative photo project, as others here have said. We can never bring back these motels, nor the atmosphere to which they gave so much, any more than we can bring back the world they were born into, but we ought to preserve their memory as the precious thing that it is.

[Doowopper]

Reading Fuzzy's statment above, I had an idea.

I wonder if there is a way that the DWPL could have a thing where we can all submit our photos to the them and they could have all of them on a page on their website. Iv'e seen other various websites do similar things like this with things like cars, paintball, etc. This way anyone could see all our photos.