The motel (motor contraction and Hotel), an American institution born in California, returned to fashion. Stylish, or delusional, symbols of a certain nostalgia for the 50s, these boutique motel to retrieve the colors of the American dream. Motor! Funny names and fun place for a motel. Just in Beverly Hills, the Farmers Daughter is a hotel located across from the Farmers Market, an impressive market studies alongside CBS.

The TV channel competitors lived there his game show The Price is Right. Renowned Farmers Daughter, The Price is Right Motel, a former Best Western chain, has done a great facelift to become original hype and stay calm in the small budgets. A signature look in town! The Farmers Daughter is not the image one has of the motel: an apartment building near a national and a neon sign that stands out and the car parked before the Board. This American institution was born in California, San Luis Obispo, north of Los Angeles. Along Highway 101, a ruined building that resembles a Spanish mission was the first motel in the world. Established in 1925, the Milestone Mo-Tel (a contraction of motor and hotel) was placed in adjacent bungalows. The appearance of the motel represents nothing less than the beginning of a revolution. That would be California without a car? We can not even imagine! A network built roads, highways and motorways define their identity. The car, dubbed the machine labas reigns over all and in the 50s, creating a lush commercial architecture characterized GOOG: Motels, shopping centers, gas stations, neon, laundries and cafeterias, vacation condos. Living here in the suburbs to work there in the middle. The motel and the vacation condos are the symbol of a changing society. The motel is in the dictionary in the 50s, said John Français, aware of Googie, which awaits me in the lobby of Avalon. The Beverly Carlton in 1949, which took account of Mae West and Marilyn became the Avalon, a delightful place, retro-hype. In fact, motel is a generic term is distinguished road hotel, motor court, Motor Inn, tourist court, car track, a number of hotels located in cities or suburbs, near airports or exchange, providing a space free parking, but not necessarily before the Board. Centrally located near several exchanges, The Standard, a 1955 building L-shaped, could meet the criteria for a hotel road. In fact, the headquarters of Standard Oil has been transformed into a raving, out of the ordinary, a retro-futuristic setting where the waitresses dressed as cheerleaders around Formica furniture on artificial turf! From the center of Beverly Hills for the success of other motels somehow resist the passage of time.

The neon-loeil eye, which lacks the bulbs, the owner / receptionist who leaves his lair, plastic cups, TV and a shower tired refrain from steps taken to avoid the mishap occurred with heroin psychosis. From the golden years of 50-60, this icon has lost its aura. Why so little motel chic in Los Angeles? There is the farmers daughter or the Avalon, and motels, seedy, the forgotten, which is found in areas of little value, but in Los Angeles, promoters to ensure the grain. To redeem the right time, to shave for the condominiums, said Tony Merchell, architecture specialist and manager of 50 years the mansion Miracle. Find motels similar to Farmers Daughter, must travel to the Mojave Desert. There Moteli graphics, architecture, restaurants, flea market or to remake the world around piscine.Le main asphalt ribbon 10 to Las Vegas without stopping. In Cabazon, a giant brontosaurus and tyrannosaurus seem to guard the entrance of the prehistoric valley where the city of a thousand and one motel. Palm Springs has been released by the Hollywood elite who sought a haven of peace. A city like frozen in the 50s, illustrated by a dozen motels retro-chic. It is from the new millennium as the first settlements of the orbit Inn, Miracle Manor Hope Springs or set the tone and raise the flag of the 50s, a time when America shows radiant opulence. Their charm is to offer, besides the pool and sun, this 354 days a year, a lifestyle. A cocktail hour – please, a Dean Martin invented the film colony – was born feel privileged to escape the modern world and make a good return in the past. Jinny and her husband stayed at the Inn of Orbit, which dates from 1947, and have been scarred for life. Supported bar-shaped boomerang that Korea has a seductive port. During our stay at the Inn Orbit, a shooting star crossed the sky. We made a wish that everyone was kept secret. Finally, we have the same: to enable the Inn orbit. As in the United States, became owners, last October. There is no mystery, the passion of these Moteli underlies the success of these boutique motel, that reproduce the 50 does not eliminate the international recognition of the motel comes with the emergence of chains like Holiday Inn and the Best Western. An entire nation is in the same boat. The best surprise is no surprise, boasted Holiday Inn in the sense that one could find a room identical in all Holiday Inn hotels. By contrast, the motels of the new generation and ensure a unique life experience. Highway No. 10 between Palm Springs Desert Hot Springs. Two worlds separated by 15 miles, in fact, a gulf between an annex to Beverly Hills and a western town worthy of the Far West. Desert Hot Springs also has a lot of 50s motels decorated spa. For now, it sounds like a painting by Edward Hopper. Miracle Manor is then placed in the middle of nowhere, a truck before. There was a time in the West … the motel. Next time we will try our vacation condominium…