Lake Aire Motel and Bottle Shop

The split-image postcard above, published by Gallagher’s Studio of Photography, shows the Lake Aire Motel and Bottle Shop on London Road. The card is undated, but appears to be from the 1960s.

The caption on the back reads:

Lake Aire Motel
2416 London Road — E. Hiway 61
On Lake Superior — Duluth, Minn.
58 Newly Refurbished Units … Air Conditioning … TV … Room Phones … Individual Thermostat Hot Water Heat Controls … Ceramic Tile Bath & Showers … Conference Room Accommodates 100 … Bottle Shop … Continental Breakfast … Diners Club and American Express Credit Cards Honored. You may call toll free for reservations. 1-800-437-2035.
Duluth Phone 218-724-8513

Lake Aire Motel merged with the Edgewater Motel in 1967.

Lake Aire Motel Bottle Shop interior

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1 Comment

Herzog

about 9 years ago

Could you imagine the debauchery those walls saw?  Don't they say one in three hotel rooms somebody has died in?  You can taste the carpet filth emanating from the photo sixty years later. But I'd eat a meal off them in a heartbeat to go back, naked as time travel requires, like the Terminator or Starman.  I'd walk in the lobby wrapped in a white towel, order a fifth of Wild Turkey before demanding their clothes and money, and get the fuck out of Duluth.

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