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Penn Hills Resort was a honeymoon resort located in Analomink, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains. Founded as a tavern in 1944, the resort grew in the 1960s, with over a hundred rooms in the hotel and a ski resort and golf course on the 500-acre site. Guest villas featured floor-to-ceiling carpeting, round beds, and heart-shaped bathtubs. Distinctive, modernist streetlights from the 1964 World's Fair were installed, as well as an ice rink and a wedding bell shaped outdoor swimming pool. some suites famously featured a Champagne glass Bathtub.

eattle’s Cirque Playhouse forged a special place in Northwest history during its three decades of almost-continuous operation. Founded and led by Gene Keene (1919-1988), the Cirque staged hundreds of different shows between 1950 and 1981. The Cirque filled a certain cultural void in the years prior to the existence of other resident groups. Because of declining attendance. From 1971 to 1981, the Cirque operated as a dinner theater.

Vintage Field Archery Association

Vintage Ren Clare's Polynesian Village Fort Worth. Ren Clark's Polynesian Village was in the Western Hills Hotel, and was richly decorated with bamboo, tapacloth, floats, lights, thatch and peacock chairs. It had several rooms: the Tahitian Room, the Hawaiian Room, the Samoan Hut, and the Cannibal Cocktail Lounge. Its signature tiki was carved by Milan Guanko

Vintage Lou's Siamese Room in Sacramento California

Irisher / Frolic Room / All Star Theatre / Chez Paree located at 139 Mason St San Francisco California. In the 1960s and 70s this was the Irisher Club and the Frolic Room.

Reuben and Richard Odman moved their namesake “fine food” restaurant into the Dog House once Bob Murray moved out to his new and nearby location on 7th Avenue. The Odman’s Westernaire Room was one of only thirty-three cocktail lounges listed in the City Director for 1955.

Oilzum, one of the first brand names in motor oil, has a rich history dating back to 1888 when F.W. White and H.P. Bagley established the White & Bagley Company in Worcester, Massachusetts. The goal of the company was to develop a practical and uniform quality motor oil with a long service life and good protective properties. Fast forward to 1905, and Oilzum Motor Oil was born. White and Bagley wanted to take the risk and guesswork out of lubrication, and their hard work paid off as Oilzum became a trusted name among early motorists. The familiar Oilzum kid became a fast friend, and the brand took the motor oil industry by storm.

Vintage Hung Far Low Chinese Restaurant Portland Oregon

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The Kalua Room / Windsor Hotel was on the corner of 6th & Union, just 6 blocks away from where the Outrigger was at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel. Today there's a large shopping and restaurant complex on the site where the Windsor stood.

Vintage Trade Winds Motor Hotel

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Vintage Kona Kove Tiki Lounge The Kona Kove Lounge was housed within the Stardust Bowl recreation center. It is unclear when it was built or closed, but it was open as late as April of 1970 as there are ads from that time for live music at the venue.

Trader Dick's was located in the Nugget in Sparks, just outside Reno. Trader Dick's had been remodeled twice and even moved across the street once since its opening in 1958. The final incarnation of Trader Dick's featured a 6,000 gallon fish tank, and support columns for the highway ran right through the restaurant and tank. The original Trader Dick's decor, which didn't survive the remodeling, was done by Eli Hedley, grandfather of Bamboo Ben.

Woody’s was the first chain I know of where you could get a hamburger and then carry it over to a little self-service counter stocked with ketchup, mustard, onions, pickles, salsa, barbecue sauce, etc., and do whatever you wanted to it. there were Woody’s all over California, including a wonderful one in Westwood Village, a block or three from U.C.L.A.

Vintage at the Olympian Motor Hotel 1901 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles fun mid century designed matchbook cover

Vintage McGowan Fuel Spokane Gas Station Petroliana americana.

Vintage Luau Room Tiki Bar New Orleans

Vintage Retro Mai Kai Tiki Bar

Dunes Club brought gambling, celebrities to Riverside County desert Opening in 1934, the Cathedral City venue drew stars such as Errol Flynn and Clark Gable

Vintage Candy Cane Motel Anaheim California

Vintage Cleopatra Restaurant Sacramento California

Manning's sent young Clark to Seattle to open a new cafeteria, and his career progressed rapidly in 1930 he bought his first restaurant - Marie's Barbecue, in the University District. Clark's chain grew rapidly until it included restaurants in various Northwest cities. Among the best known here: The Salad Bowl, The Red Carpet, Village Chef, Round the Clock, Twin Teepees, Little Chef, The Crabapple, Clark's Northgate, Minute Chef, Clark's Corner, two Windjammers, Dublin House, Big Top and Plaza 5.

the Top O' The Quad" bar of The Famous Clairemont Bowl, in Clairemont California (near San Diego) it originally opened in 1957 and was torn down in 2005. Clairemont Bowl was the most popular social and entertainment destination in Clairemont. Nothing came close then and now I'm told. The Quad Room had music, dancing, and alcohol. Back in the 60's the Quad Room sold cheese pizzas for $.39 cents, and pitchers of beer “The Clairemont Bowl was my house,” said Don Anderson. “In 1964, I had the first 300 game ever at the Clairemont Bowl. It wasn’t easy to get a 300 back then. Bowling lanes used to be wood with a lacquer finish. They were regularly oiled. Today, the lanes are urethane and can’t absorb oil. Scores and averages are higher today.”

The inventiveness of vintage menu artwork never fails to make us smile. This prickly fellow wearing a chef’s hat was created for the Cocky Cactus restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Hosts Audrey and Wally Poole ran this establishment for many decades –from the 1930s until the late 1950s. There was a cocktail lounge and a dining room where the menu noted: “sorry – not responsible for well done steaks.” Like most restaurateurs, the Pooles and their staff put in long hours – both venues stayed open till 1.30am at the weekends.

Across the street at the northeast corner of Thomas and Broadway is the long-lived Checkerboard Café and Cocktail Lounge. From my years on Capitol Hill in the early 1970s I remember it as Ernie Steele’s Restaurant, with its dark bar, sportsman’s murals stained by decades of nicotine and deep frying, and that special smell that such places share and which no scented evergreen can cover. Later it became Eileen's and still later Julia's

The Seattle Banjo Club was born in 1962, under the leadership of Myron Hinkle (1916-2001), a banjoist in "The Banjo Boys" (four banjos and a piano) at the Blue Banjo, a popular bar in Pioneer Square where patrons were entertained on Friday and Saturday nights while they sang along, ate peanuts and popcorn, and drank beer by the pitcher.

Vintage First Last Chance Bar Oakland California

The Dunes Hotel & Country Club was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It opened on May 23, 1955, as the tenth resort on the Strip. It was initially owned by a group of businessmen from out of state, but failed to prosper under their management. It also opened at a time of decreased tourism, while the Strip was simultaneously becoming overbuilt with hotel rooms. A few months after the opening, management was taken over by the operators of the Sands resort, also on the Strip. This group failed to improve business and relinquished control less than six months later.

El Cortez, a hotel and casino, is a relatively small downtown Las Vegas gaming venue a block from the Fremont Street Experience and Las Vegas Boulevard. Slots, table games, and a race and sports book occupy one floor of the main pavilion, at this historic casino. It opened on Fremont Street on November 7, 1941

Barney's Casino opened on May 25, 1961, on the former site of the Circus Room and Nevada Turf Club at 31 U.S. Highway 50 in Stateline, Nevada. Barney's was owned by Bernard E. "Barney" O'Malia (manager of El Capitan Club in Hawthorne, Nevada, since the 1940s), with other investors including Richard L. "Dick" Chartrand (a former Fresno used-car dealer and charter pilot)

1940s The Glass Hat Hotel Belmont Plaza, New York City NYC The Glass Hat Club was a popular supper club at the hotel which had a capacity of 444 people and as of 1947 charged a minimum fee of $2.50 for entry for shows put on between 8:30 pm and midnight. The bar of the Glass Hat was designed by Jac Lessman in a circular style, to give the room a "feeling of cheerfulness and informality".