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47. James Lileks, Motel Postcard Enthusiast
For Keeps
English - December 16, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 43 MB - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsHobbies Leisure Society & Culture Documentary collections collectors forkeeps forkeepspodcast memorabilia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Swimming pools! Color television! Air conditioning! The American motel — particularly the quirky, independent kind seen along highways in the 1950s and 60s — fascinates writer James Lileks, whose 500 or so motel postcards capture the motel's midcentury heyday.
Lileks.com's "The American Motel" postcard archive • Opening theme: "Keepers" by Still Flyin' • Closing theme: "Slow Draw/Feeling In My Heart" by Eric Frisch • Additional music by Tim Beek, Papernut Cambridge, and Chad Crouch • www.forkeepspodcast.com