Description
This vintage postcard depicts a light-colored motel exterior with several cars parked out front and a brown and orange motel room interior. The back features a handwritten message detailing a photographer’s travel plans, including stops in Philadelphia and Rochester, and the progress of a fair-related photo shoot. This postcard, mailed October 24, 1982, showcases a snapshot of 1980s travel and roadside Americana.
Front Text (cleaned):
Dirkin's Motel
TV-Air Conditioned
No Vacancy
Dorkat Motel
Back Text (cleaned):
OCT 24, 1982
HELLO from the Rochester Motel
3990 West Henrietta
Rochester, N.Y. 14628
This is but one of the
wonderful places I have stayed in.
I plan to go back once more before
the destruction is complete. Many examples of highway gap architecture that I hope to make it up to Hanover in a week or so.
We are presently in Phila. and we hope to be out of here in a week. My shooting of the fair has gone well. I have shot and developed 12 rolls of film, so I have over 100 images for you to play with so far.
POST CARD
PROF. Wysocki
C/O VISUAL STUDIES DEPT
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
HANOVER, NH 03755
Hope all's well with you. Brian McDomoney
