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'Nam vet at Pops.

It used to live on Rt. 66 in Clinton, Oklahoma. Now it's just another eyesore on The Mother Road. I'm not sure of its fate, as one site said the local city council condemned it, and another says they opted to try and save it. The original building with all the wonderful mid-century elements is 17 rooms, and perhaps that's the one refurbishers could realistically salvage if the money and will were there. It's a huge property; 75 rooms in total (and a pool) after a couple of upgrades and add-ons back in the late '50s. The "new" motel office has pretty cool lines, and the parking lot next to the original building has some marvelous decorative covering. (Updated: never mind. What I thought was a decorative parking lot must have been the flooring to the restaurant next door that burned down in 1999.)