Suburban Tragic Comedy - Jacuzzi Adventure Suites
As a follow-up to last week’s post of a Kunstler-esque critique on ridiculous suburban buildings. Here’s a doozy - a motel with a facade of a quaint little small town called Jacuzzi Adventure Suites, also in North Conway, New Hampshire. The image of urbanism has been turned into a cheap sideshow on the side of a very non-urban highway.
All of the supposed amenities of urban life are represented, a bakery, a stable, a barber shop, and even a train station. The reality, on the inside, are bizarre theme rooms like Motorcycle Madness, which caters to the many bikers who come to the state to ride sans helmet, or The Cave, complete with “Bats and Panthers”. It’s such a strange mish-mash I don’t even know where to begin.
Tags: Architecture, Urban
July 25th, 2008
at 12:13 pm on July 25th, 2008
Neale,
I really enjoyed this post and your previous related post on this topic.
We have a hotel in Albany NY (actually it’s in the creamy suburban nougat center of the Albany “metro area”) with the same jive plastic facade of Disneyurbanification. It’s called The Desmond, and it’s located beside a major highway, at the end of the area’s most anti-urban strip of commercial suburban sprawl crap. (You can check this hotel out at http://www.desmondhotels.com/)
I host a weekly audio podcast with James Howard Kunstler, called The KunstlerCast. A caller at the end of a recent program had a lot to say about Disney World that I think you might find interesting.
You can listen to the podcast any time at http://kunstlercast.com
at 12:31 pm on July 30th, 2008
Hey Duncan, I appreciate the comment very much. I have listened to the Kunstlercast and enjoy it. I was actually listening to it on my drive through New Hampshire, which I probably help prompt me to write this post. I’m glad you enjoyed the post.