back to Crescent Beach—-Crescent City, this is the Crescent Beach Motel, and this is a great one to keep in mind when you're up there because all of the rooms are--it's a strip motel again--and all the rooms face the ocean there. You're facing a beach, no road in front just the grass that you see on the little bluff there and just down a little bit to the beach, it's pretty flat. And, it's not a swimming beach, you want to be careful anywhere
back to Crescent Beach—-Crescent City, this is the Crescent Beach Motel, and this is a great one to keep in mind when you're up there because all of the rooms are--it's a strip motel again--and all the rooms face the ocean there. You're facing a beach, no road in front just the grass that you see on the little bluff there and just down a little bit to the beach, it's pretty flat. And, it's not a swimming beach, you want to be careful anywhere in the North Coast, be careful about swimming without—-you want to know that it's safe.
rooms cheap places to stay and hold the interviews right there in the motel now this is the 1960s before the personal computer if you can imagine such an era if you've ever gotten a home loan you know that there's a lot of paperwork
$49 a night, and then in a slightly smaller font in the lobby for everyone to see, it just said "$20 an hour". It was a pay by the hour motel, what we call a "no tell motel" where people went on their lunch hour. So I bought it, had to get rid of Vinnie and his girls, our biggest corporate account.
It's like what they make hominy grits out of. It's called mote in the South American parlance. And look at those cute little teeth.
And she said stop setting up your tent. There's a motel and a key waiting for you, and it's all paid for. So I entered this home as a complete and utter stranger.
So I jumped off, and I was like, Mom, Dad, I'm going to run across Canada! and got me the motel night?
And for many people, this was an easy decision to make, because the freeways that are now brand-new allow easy access to and from the suburbs. the Algiers Motel Massacre.
What they're in need of is a breakthrough hit, a number one song, and no one knows it more than Keith Richards. One night in his motel room, Richards was trying to write that song. So what's going on inside his brain while he's attempting to have this breakthrough?
you've been talking an awful lot about your background in lowtech specifically while illustrating and explaining some into these motels you know like one after another in different parts of the country and I would start to notice these similar things like you know the
The windshield blurred, the road was inky, the rain, biblical. The cheap motel off the highway seemed like not such a hot idea after I passed my fifth gun racked pickup. But there wasn't any turning back.
We were looking for some action, also known as trouble, as young man often do. at the motel before Albert returned from his own forays.
They had a heavy accent, and really didn't have much in terms of skills. But they found that motels, buying motels, was a great way to go. And the reason they thought that was because a typical Patel family, at the time, could buy a 10 or 15 room motel for well
And the family could live in one or two of those rooms. And because motel are labor intensive, they would pretty much fire all the staff, and the family would do all the work. So laundry, cleaning rooms, watching the front desk.
They looked at every single facet of the business. And so once a motel came under Patel ownership, two things happened. One is that the operating cost dropped.
I used to live in Hayes Valley, and I was obsessed with the proxy project, which turned out, after I got to We bought a Motel 6 which needed to be condemned.
And that's what gives humor its power. And early motels and advertising.
That's births less deaths. It's like Motel 6, and the light's on all the time. This is enough to repopulate San Francisco every three days.
Chip started his company in 1987 at the age of 26 with no industry experience. He turned a seedy motel into a world renowned hotel that catered to celebrities such as David Bowie. And Chip focuses on the higher human needs of his employees, customers, and investors. His company now consists of over 40 unique and award winning hotels and spas and restaurants, employing over 3,000 people. It has been named the second best place to work in the San Francisco
So the first, and as Meng said, I had no hotel experience. I understand real estate development a little bit, but I didn't understand hotels. So I bought this motel in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. Now I'm not from a wealthy family. Anybody from like Southern California area at all? A few of you, so Long Beach Poly High School, so I mean this is, I was not from Beverly Hills. I did not have a bunch of money in my pocket. So I went out and I raised a million dollars from people I went
about that. But then a lot of people like to go up here for the storms. They're specifically like to go up in the winter to watch the storms, not a tsunami but a storm. Anyway, this is again an inexpensive motel. As I recall, they included breakfast which was instant oatmeal or something like that. It was just, you know, really next to nothing but enough to get you started and on the road without having to go to a coffee shop--and they did have coffee.
about that. But then a lot of people like to go up here for the storms. They're specifically like to go up in the winter to watch the storms, not a tsunami but a storm. Anyway, this is again an inexpensive motel. As I recall, they included breakfast which was instant oatmeal or something like that. It was just, you know, really next to nothing but enough to get you started and on the road without having to go to a coffee shop--and they did have coffee.
A black hole is a cosmic roach motel.
you've been talking an awful lot about your background in lowtech specifically while illustrating and explaining some have a soft spot for Motel of the Mysteries and spent a good long time reading shortcut over and over to my
Why would a restaurant sell a moterscooter, or attempt to sell a moterscooter on its menu?
We were looking for some action, also known as trouble, as young man often do. "As we pulled into the motel's carport, we all turned white, me even whiter, at the site of Albert's towering over several of San Francisco's
I turned and sprinted across the motel parking lot.
And decided to create a Rock and Roll hotel. And at age 26 the idea of having all these rock and rollers staying with me in my hotel sounded like a cool idea. And who else was gonna stay at a broken down 1950s motel in the ghetto? Did have bus parking, very important for bands; they like the bus parking. And the Phoenix, which is what I named it, became sort of a hit pretty quickly and it still is. It's a funky place. A lot of the people you see on the screen here started
Vegas and stay in a motel six that's a compact fluorescent bulb this is a five-star hotel I don't want people
driving around the state opening up new branches in towns and cities where subdivisions were quickly sprouting up he would conduct employee interviews in motel rooms I set the interviews up in motel rooms because I was coming into town and needed a place to stay he said sometimes the rooms would have Suites but not
And for many people, this was an easy decision to make, because the freeways that are now brand-new allow easy access to and from the suburbs. That is called in by the clerk of the motel, as ruled by the Wayne County coroner.
I don't know-- actually does anybody know roach motels anymore?
And then afterwards I went-- we were staying in a motel near Poughkeepsie, and I went back to the motel.
you've been talking an awful lot about your background in lowtech specifically while illustrating and explaining some symbolic going on here so that's when I did Motel I just wanted to play I wanted to not do architecture but as you know I
I used to live in Hayes Valley, and I was obsessed with the proxy project, which turned out, after I got to It'll sit in the middle of an old motel which we're renovating into small-format retail.
The moment I walked through the door of my motel room, I could feel the baking heat, as if I had left the thermostat
And when we got back to the little motel we were staying at, I was peeling these layers off.
You have a constant parade of diners and motels and little stores and diners and motels.
High School, so I mean this is, I was not from Beverly Hills. I did not have a bunch of money in my pocket. So I went out and I raised a million dollars from people I went to college and from business school with and I bought a motel in San Francisco that was at the corner of Larkin and Eddy. We call that the "Gateway to the Tenderloin" . I call it a good place to go for a run, not for a walk.
that must have been an old Super Eight motel that had been turned into public housing projects and we knocked on doors
It's not fair.” You have to go back to the motel room.
it was a very low margin business so he was always watching for for costs um in the beginning so he would travel around to motel rooms cheap places to stay and hold the interviews right there in the
names, the ones I love the mote , but Seth Meyers, for example.
And there's a lot of struggle there of trying to find even a motel room that she can stay in.
I wanted to take the bell that was on the desk in the motel office that didn't work.
Yes. A black hole is a cosmic roach motel.
This idea that you decided to go get a job as a motel maid at the age of 14-- what on Earth inspired you to do that and to do that job?
So we drove down the coast from Seattle and stayed in a motel at night.
Oh no, I met him at a motel on Sunset, a hooker motel.
The first thing when you open a Carluccio's menu that you see is a moterscooter.