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My family used to vacation at the beach when I was younger. I think I stayed in most of the motels there over the years. Most of them had been built in the 1950s and 60s.
The earliest visits I remember were two rooms in the same motel. They had white Dwyer kitchens as far as I can tell. There was a range that had four or possibly three burners and an oven. I was afraid of the oven because the broiler had wire type elements and I had never seen one that old. There was also a sink which had vents on the panel below it and the fridge was somewhere under the counter with cabinets above. I was also fascinated with the bathroom exhaust fan. I can now identify it as a Nutone Heat a Ventlite. It was round and had a round glass light in the middle which came on with the light over the mirror. The other switch I was told turned on a heater which I was afraid to turn on. That motel was sold about 1996 and the kitchens were all redone a time or two since.
Another old motel we stayed at a few times in different rooms. THe first one, the kitchen must have been redone in the 90s or late 80s because it had almond laminate cabinets with wood trim pulls along the bottom of the doors and drawers. It had almond Kenmore apartment sized stove and fridge also and the microwave was on top of the fridge. That room had neat fixtures along one wall with built in desks if I recall right. I wanted to see if the fixtures worked but don't remember turning them on.
The second room we stayed there was many years later. It had a Dwyer metal cabinet and backslash on top with a light fixture built in which had two bulbs controlled by a toggle switch and a two prong outlet. The lower cabinets were lime green laminate with big round chrome knobs. The stove was a white apartment sized Glenwood, which was the same as a Sunray, probably 80s and a newer Kenmore apartment sized fridge. This unit also had some cool light fixtures.
That motel was since sold and the new owners completely gutted and remodeled it, but the second room we stayed in was a part across the street, and from what I see on Google Streetview, they just fenced that building off and painted the outside, but don't use it.
Two others we stayed in, one had a Dixie apartment sized range in white, which I thought was so fancy because the controls were on the backsplash which I had never seen on an apt range and it had a grounded convenience outlet.
Another motel had been remodeled and it had white laminate cabinets. Facing the kitchenette, there was a sink on left with cabinet below, on right was a two burner Princess solid element cooktop with an Acme mini fridge below. Above the sink was a GE microwave and above the cooktop was a tiny Brown brand exhaust hood. Looking at new photos, the hoods have been replaced with GE over the range microwaves and the counters and backsplash are granite and smoothtop two burner cooktops.
Also my aunt's house at the beach has a small apartment downstairs and I was told it had an old kitchenette unit down there that was actually old when the house was built in 1985, but she got rid of it because it rusted and leaked.
The earliest visits I remember were two rooms in the same motel. They had white Dwyer kitchens as far as I can tell. There was a range that had four or possibly three burners and an oven. I was afraid of the oven because the broiler had wire type elements and I had never seen one that old. There was also a sink which had vents on the panel below it and the fridge was somewhere under the counter with cabinets above. I was also fascinated with the bathroom exhaust fan. I can now identify it as a Nutone Heat a Ventlite. It was round and had a round glass light in the middle which came on with the light over the mirror. The other switch I was told turned on a heater which I was afraid to turn on. That motel was sold about 1996 and the kitchens were all redone a time or two since.
Another old motel we stayed at a few times in different rooms. THe first one, the kitchen must have been redone in the 90s or late 80s because it had almond laminate cabinets with wood trim pulls along the bottom of the doors and drawers. It had almond Kenmore apartment sized stove and fridge also and the microwave was on top of the fridge. That room had neat fixtures along one wall with built in desks if I recall right. I wanted to see if the fixtures worked but don't remember turning them on.
The second room we stayed there was many years later. It had a Dwyer metal cabinet and backslash on top with a light fixture built in which had two bulbs controlled by a toggle switch and a two prong outlet. The lower cabinets were lime green laminate with big round chrome knobs. The stove was a white apartment sized Glenwood, which was the same as a Sunray, probably 80s and a newer Kenmore apartment sized fridge. This unit also had some cool light fixtures.
That motel was since sold and the new owners completely gutted and remodeled it, but the second room we stayed in was a part across the street, and from what I see on Google Streetview, they just fenced that building off and painted the outside, but don't use it.
Two others we stayed in, one had a Dixie apartment sized range in white, which I thought was so fancy because the controls were on the backsplash which I had never seen on an apt range and it had a grounded convenience outlet.
Another motel had been remodeled and it had white laminate cabinets. Facing the kitchenette, there was a sink on left with cabinet below, on right was a two burner Princess solid element cooktop with an Acme mini fridge below. Above the sink was a GE microwave and above the cooktop was a tiny Brown brand exhaust hood. Looking at new photos, the hoods have been replaced with GE over the range microwaves and the counters and backsplash are granite and smoothtop two burner cooktops.
Also my aunt's house at the beach has a small apartment downstairs and I was told it had an old kitchenette unit down there that was actually old when the house was built in 1985, but she got rid of it because it rusted and leaked.
