El Vado Auto Court Motel
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
El Vado Auto Court Motel
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Situated on Route 66, at the intersection of Central and New York Streets, in Albuquerque, New Mexico sits the El Vado Auto Court. The motor court actually predates Route 66’s Central alignment by more than a year. The motel was built by Daniel Murphy, an Irishman who had worked in New York City before making his way to New Mexico.
When it opened in 1937, the motel consisted of 32 units, some of which were interspersed with covered carports, arranged in two parallel, one-story buildings facing a parking courtyard. For years, the old El Vado Motel sat behind a chain link fence, with peeling paint, and a weed-choked courtyard.
As of July 20, 2018, after a 13-year hiatus, the historic El Vado Motel is open once again to the traveling public.
I photographed the motel in a desperate state of affairs in July 2016 before the restorations began.
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June 29th, 2019
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive discussion. There are many other discussions in the group where you can promote your art even further more.
Jenny Revitz Soper
Thanks for posting your featured work in the December 2021 features thread of the No Place Like Home Artist Group. l/f
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