Started back in 1994 by Ed Smith and partner Rita, Shady Dell began its story in the small mining town of Bisbee. The Luria’s stumbled across Shady Dell while visiting the area from Phoenix—about three hours away. After their visit, while researching properties online, Shady Dell came up on a search.

“We moved down there in 2007 and haven’t looked back yet,” Jennifer says.

Fitting almost perfectly into the couple’s story, the two made Shady Dell their home.

“One of our first dates that my husband and I went on was antiquing on a Saturday. I love doing that,” Jennifer recalls. “My family just has always kept everything we grew up with so we were always kind of surrounded by it. Our parents always joked that we were born in the wrong era.”

But now, the Luria’s essentially do live in the era of the 1950s. Shady Dell consists of nine fully restored vintage aluminum trailers, each with its own story and personality. The oldest, a 1949 airstream, was once photographed for Brides Magazine back in the day, and now stands as somewhat of a honeymoon suite, equipped with vintage wedding photos, cake toppers, garter belts, etc., — you name it!

Right now, Jennifer’s favorite trailer is the Mansion.

“Maybe it’s how it is positioned in the park or the way the light hits it; it just seems to glow a little bit more,” Jennifer says. “The decorations, red refrigerator, the curtains… everything makes it feel really authentic in there.”

Life around Shady Dell is about being a part of the community and relaxing. Guests often can be found reading old issues of Life or National Geographic, or perhaps sipping a cocktail. The Luria’s also run a small radio station that plays 40s and 50s music that guests may not have heard before.

“A lot of people rent a few of the trailers in the same weekend or same night and do themed cocktails by trailer and go on to the next one where there are appetizers and such,” Jennifer says.

The Luria’s are always looking for new and innovative ways to update Shady Dell. Right now, they are in the process of creating a small-scale drive-in—complete with a diner turned concession stand. Just outside of Shady Dell, guests can explore the turn-of-the-century town’s shops, galleries, antique stores and bars. In addition, bird watching is a favorite pastime in Bisbee, especially in migration season.

Perhaps Shady Dell was meant to be a time capsule that was left behind, untouched.

“You know somebody from the 50s had used this last is what we try [to convey] and I think you’re taken back to that by the music being played or the simplicities in life,” Jennifer explains. “When you walk in, there is a feeling. You see it in pictures, or read about it, but I think there is something that happens when you step onto the property.”

To view all nine of Shady Dell’s trailers or make a reservation for spring season, visit http://www.theshadydell.com/

Telly Awards 2012 for Thunderbird Inn's travel video shorts by Popcorn Octane LLC

We don’t have a red carpet – but if we did, we’d be walking it! Two videos produced for the Thunderbird Inn in Savannah, Georgia have received two prestigious Telly Awards.

“Winning two Telly Awards validates that the retro vibe of ‘Swinging Sixties meets modern attitude’ can and does resonate in the media,” states marketing media strategist Sandy Traub. “In addition to technical and marketing professionals, significant people in tourism and in the City of Savannah are watching, applauding, and praising Thunderbird Inn for its gutsy, creative marketing.”

“When Thunderbird Inn markets that the retro hotel is ‘the hippest hotel in Savannah’, Georgia, it’s important that staffers and creative media help to stretch the retro inn’s marketing dollars, repeat and convey that message in every way possible. We’ve proven that digital videos deliver results. It is unbelievably thrilling to learn that our worldwide marketing colleagues in this field think we have this retro hotel’s message delivered really right!” concludes Ms. Traub. “The inn’s owners are delighted with the budget and the business results.”

The Telly Awards are not a household name, unless you are in a business that involves producing or running commercial or Internet video. But within that large and growing industry, the Telly is the top!

The Thunderbird Inn was among the first Savannah businesses to develop Internet videos for marketing. “We feature them on our website, and you can also see them on YouTube. Hey, we’re retro, but we mastered the present before we went back to the past,” states General Manager Mark Thomas.

Thunderbird Inn’s quirky “Dog Days in Historic Savannah” won a Silver Telly, the competition’s highest award. “The Thunderbird Inn in downtown Savannah is pet friendly. This video showcases some of the activities dog owners can enjoy with their pets during a trip to Savannah, as well as to introduce several dog-friendly Savannah businesses that serve them. Special thanks to Savannah pet photographer Becky Smith who brought pups and their owners, including Hope Bernstein, and to local Dachshund Rescue volunteers who helped to make our now-popular and award-winning dog video possible!” Mark adds.

A Bronze Telly went to our newest video, “Meet Up on the Boulevard,” showcasing the attractions of the Thunderbird’s neighbors along the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard corridor, flanked by Barnard Street and Boundary Street. “We introduce you, in a fast-paced style, to some of the nearby places your feet can take you when you stay at the Thunderbird Inn,” Mark adds.

Both videos were produced by Popcorn Octane LLC — an award winning video production company in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina lead by cinematographer Guy Smith. Marketing media strategist Sandy Traub directed both video projects. The work was commissioned by Thunderbird Inn’s general manager, Mark A. Thomas, a passionate vintage travel champion who embraces digital video as a powerful multimedia marketing tool.

From 50 USA states and 5 continents over 11,000 films and videos were submitted to the 33rd Annual Telly Awards. “We are beyond thrilled to learn of that Thunderbird Inn’s video marketing is recognized and praised internationally. Last year’s Silver Telly winner included Turner Studios, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Bass Pros Shops Film & Video Productions, Lockheed Martin, Miami Dolphins Ltd., Kansas City Chiefs, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, Outdoor Channel, Time Warner Cable, and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center only to name a few. We will be so eager to learn who the other Silver and Bronze Telly winners are for 2012.”

“The ‘Silver Telly’ is the ‘highest’ award and more rare, meaning we did something unique,” says video producer Guy Smith, the videographer and creative force at Popcorn Octane LLC. A listing of all winners will be posted at this link.

ABOUT THUNDERBIRD INN

Declaring itself “The hippest hotel in Savannah”™, the delightfully quirky, Thunderbird Inn (42 rooms) is where the historic downtown Savannah location and hip motel eccentricities meet up. Featured in New York Times, Southern Living, Miami Herald, Best10.com, TravelMuse.com, Dog Friendly magazine, the Telly Silver and Telly Bronze award-winning, downtown Georgia inn-hotel recaptures the southern retro spirit of the Swinging Sixties. The youthful General Manager, Mark Thomas, has directed the much-touted marketing toward a bold, free-spirited and young again approach, making the most of the popular resurgence of retro in the United States. Discounted Savannah lodging was never so much fun! Ask about discount local coupons, Staff Picks, MoonPie® on your pillow, and dog friendly / pet-friendly vacation accommodations. 611 West Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah, GA USA 31401. Toll Free Reservations (866) 324-2661; International +1/912-232-2661; Fax 912-233-5551. Twitter: @TBirdInn; E-mail info@thethunderbirdinn.com; Web: TheThunderbirdInn.com

Copyright (c) 2012 The Thunderbird Inn / Betty Darby

Historic highway becomes an Americana destination

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One-of-a-kind restaurants, neon-laced motels, and quirky and cool attractions dot Route 66 from Chicago to L.A.

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The series of roads that connected Chicago, Ill., to Santa Monica, Calif., is found mostly on Google searches, in specialty publications or by historic markers.

But the worldwide mystique Route 66 holds—along with a nostalgia for open road travel—has encouraged some entrepreneurs to revive the roadway’s once thriving business communities.

“This has far exceeded our expectations,” says Kevin Mueller, who along with his wife Nancy, own the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, N.M. “There’s great history behind this place and we couldn’t be happier running it.”

The two 50 year olds left their native Michigan after losing their jobs—he in automotive service industry and she in real estate—and bought the decades-old Blue Swallow in 2011 for a low six-figure price with their retirement savings.

“We couldn’t find any jobs of interest and I remembered a trip I took out this way in 2007 so we thought, why not?” Kevin Mueller adds, who holds a hotel and restaurant management degree from college.

“It’s hard work for sure, and the days are long,” Mueller goes on to say about the restored motel with 12 rooms that faces Route 66. “But the local people love what we’ve done and we expect to make our investment back in five years.”

Source: Blueswallowmotel.com Blue Swallow Motel Owners Kevin and Nancy

A recent study from Rutgers University and the National Park Service shows there is money to be made on the “Mother Road,” as John Steinbeck called Route 66 in his novel “The Grapes of Wrath.”

Some $132 million is currently spent along the roads supporting about 2,400 jobs and producing $90 million in income, according to the report.

“These aren’t huge numbers, but for the towns that lost industries, the legacy of Route 66 helps many local businesses,” says David Listokin, a professor at Rutgers and a co-author of the study. “Some towns along the route are actually coming back financially.”

What’s helping the small towns and their businesses revive is that hundreds of them along the route have been designated as historic landmarks.

That enables them to get government grants and tax credits—while drawing visitors looking for a sense of the past.

“The locals are doing all they can to get money and the designation to profit from the roadway’s heritage,” says Listokin. “But some places are better at it than others.”

Route 66 wasn’t always a side-road attraction. The highway system dates back to 1926 and covered some 2,500 miles through eight states. And as Americans headed West by car, the Mother Road was pockmarked with thousands of motels, gas stations, coffee shops, trading posts and other small businesses.

Traffic increased on Route 66 in the 1930s as people moved to find jobs—spending what money they had on supplies and places to stay. Other travel spikes followed World War II and through the 1950′s and 60′s as vacationers headed west—and more businesses sprang up to service them.

But many sections of Route 66 saw major road realignments over the years and after the Interstate Highway Act of 1956, it was never the same.

More towns along Main Street, as Route 66 is often called, found themselves bypassed as newer routes made travel faster and more direct. In 1986, Route 66 was decertified as a highway and officially ceased to exist.

Even as it was “dying,” Route 66 had enthusiasts determined to keep it alive. Many states along the route set up their own preservation groups and there were individual efforts. David Knudson runs the National Historic Route 66 Federation from Lake Arrowhead, Calif., and says it was a trip from Chicago to California in 1964 that left him full of memories.

“My late wife Mary Lou and I set up this organization in 1994 after we tried to drive that same way again and couldn’t find Route 66 on maps,” says Knudson, who was part of the Rutgers University study. “Since then, many businesses have come back and there’s more interest in Route 66 than ever.”

But not every business finds the Mother Road paved with profits—especially newer ones.

Rory Schepisi owns the Boot Hill Saloon and Grill along a part of Route 66 in Vega, Texas, and says she’s been trying to sell the place almost since the day she opened it in 2007.

“I came here with the idea of putting people to work and to help the local economy,” says the 35-year-old New Jersey native and culinary school graduate who came to Vega as part of a reality show before buying the building.

“But it’s been tough. One night I might get 300 people and the next night no one,” she adds.

While Tucumcari has a population of some 5,000 people, Vega—located some 30 miles from Amarillo—has only about 900 residents. That’s a very small customer base, says Schepisi, who employees anywhere from 12 to 26 people, pays some $14,000 a year in taxes and has yet to find even one possible buyer for the grill.

“Being on Route 66 is nice but it’s not as consistent when it comes to traffic and customers,” Schepisi goes on to say. “I love living here but I’m not sure I get all the local support I need to make this work.”

It’s no secret that many towns along what’s left of Route 66 are having hard economic times. According to the Rutgers survey, some 15 percent of the roadway’s residents are considered impoverished.

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“There are limits to traveling and tourism in terms of dollars spent,” says Rutger’s Listokin. “Many small businesses face challenges. There are start-up costs, then there are expenses. It’s not easy.”

Those who do travel and spend on the nearly 2,000 miles left of the route—some 15 percent of them are from overseas—seem driven by a need to go back in time, say experts.

That nostalgia—coupled with modern technology—is reason enough to see a bright future, argues Kevin Mueller.

“We get baby boomers here with their kids and grandkids. We must talk to 100 people a day. And we’re open all year long, as well as being on Facebook and we take online reservations. Those are things the previous owner didn’t do,” says Mueller.

“It’s good enough that I want my own kids to have this business when I retire.”

Current owners Richard and Gail Talley have had the Motel Safari for five years, and they’ve been hard at work bringing it up to the standards of its heyday. Eleven rooms are ready for visitors who swoosh by on classic Route 66. Some rooms even feature the original mid-century furniture with which they were equipped.

Restored Rooms with mid-century furnishings

Clyde’s sign, Richard explained, was backlit plastic and over the years had taken a beating from the high winds that sweep through the area seasonally. The couple has been gradually reworking the sign, and ultimately plans to give Clyde the alternating illumination of neon legs that will let him “walk.” Just don’t hold them to a timeline.

 “The rooms come first, because you can’t sleep on a sign,” is the way Richard puts it.

 Tucumcari is a town of 5,300 souls midway between Amarillo, Texas, and Albuquerque, N.M. The Talley’s classic American roadside motel is beside the most iconic American road of all, Route 66, which ran from Chicago to Los Angeles. Interstate 40 passes nearby, and other major routes intersect. It’s a crossroads in a sparsely populated area, and hardly a place you’d think of as a hub of international tourism – but you would be wrong.

 “Route 66 has a global following,” Richard said. From Memorial Day through October, he describes it as “crazy busy” at Motel Safari. Ninety percent stems from reservations, and 70 percent of that comes from from overseas. The largest single nationality would be the United Kingdom, followed by Norway and Australia, but countries all over Europe are represented, he said.

Modern and Classic Hot Rods are a natural for Route 66

“When they think of Route 66, they think of the very first motels, hot rods, blue jeans, Americana and man, are they into the cars!  Typically they’ll fly into Chicago, rent something like a Mustang convertible, and drive to L.A.  They come from cold, crowded places and they love our sun and the open road,” Richard said of his international visitors. “They get out here and there’s the great expanse of the Southwest and it’s hot and dry and they love it.”

 Some international visitors book the Safari Motel based on its website (www.themotelsafari.com ), but the motel also has relationships with several tour booking agencies overseas.

 The Talleys cherish being able to interact with each guest and relax with them on the patio underneath the sign patrolled by Clyde the Camel, watching America pass by on Route 66 in the form of cruising teenagers and painstakingly restored vintage cars. That’s why they haven’t been in a hurry to get the motel back up to its previous total of 22 to 23 rooms.

Richard and Gail Talley

 “It is supposed to be retirement, and we’re more focused on enjoying our guests. Eleven to 14 rooms is a great size to still be able to deal with just about every single guest that comes in on an individual basis,” Richard said.

Fast-forward a generation. Melissa met, fell in love and married Roland Roy, a police officer who was oneof the 15,000 permanent island residents on the Wildwoods, where vacationers swell the population to 150,000 in summer and to as much as 400,000 on prime weekends.  A new generation grew up in that pool, and now they’re grown and work at the V.I.P.

Melissa remembers pulling out the paper reservation charts in the motel office and tracking when her friends would arrive to join her. Families tended to come the same weeks each year, and stay in the same rooms. Melissa would pen pal with her summer buddies through the school year and eagerly await their arrivals that summer. Some of those same friends continued to vacation at the V.I.P. as their own families grew, and their kids grew up playing with Melissa’s. Now, those kids have kids. And so the generational saga goes on.

Not much else changes at the V.I.P (Vacation in Paradise). Oh, they’ve updated the rooms a bit: each room used to feature one of two paintings, either a Viking ship or a stylized New York skyline, and the family literally had to pry them off the walls where they’d been secured with some kind of glue. (Melissa sounds a bit nostalgic about them now.) But many room features remain unchanged, like the Murphy beds in most of the rooms.

On the Wildwoods, the tide comes and goes. The human tide of visitors comes and goes, too. The cycle starts anew each May, as the Roys pull the cover off the pool and clean the rooms to the white-glove standard that Melissa’s late mother Joann, the original Miss V.I.P., insisted upon. The sense of place remains in place, quirky and individual – the farthest point from franchised and plastic. The season is starting again. Welcome home, America.

Vacations were magic for kids back in the Sixties, and part of that magic, at least for my sister and me, was embodied in Magic Fingers. Seeing that the Thunderbird Inn in Savannah has brought back Magic Fingers for a selection of its rooms triggered a wave of nostalgia for a Baby Boomer childhood.

Vacation was one wonderful week where the rules didn’t apply. We’d head off to pre-theme park Florida on a patchwork of new-fangled and incomplete interstate highways and poky two-lane highways. After eight hours or so in the family station wagon, we’d stream into what was then a cutting-edge motel room. First, my sister and I would make a mad dash to the bathroom and fight over who got to be the first person to use the toilet after the “Sanitized for your protection!” sash had been pulled off the seat. Then, back into the room with its two double beds to seek out the Magic Fingers.

Label on Magic Fingers, Thunderbird Inn in downtown Savannah GA

If you enjoyed the Sixties so much that you don’t remember them, here’s a refresher course. Magic Fingers was a bedside device that, once fed in a quarter, would shake the mattress in a semblance of a relaxing massage. As kids, we knew there was a “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” quality about them (Motel rooms! Vibrating beds!) but all we knew is they were the official start of vacation.

Our parents were very good parents, but they were also hard-working folks with rules. We knew better than to whine and we didn’t expect to buy something every time we went into a store with them. We had a modest allowance, and that was that – 51 weeks out of the year. But during vacation, that rule went away. Coconuts carved like monkeys’ heads, sea shells died in colors nature never considered, two-inch-long bone china alligators – we could ask for what we wanted or even what we thought we wanted and, like as not, get it. And the very first “ask” of vacation was always for Magic Fingers.

“Daddy, Daddy, can we play Magic Fingers?” we would chorus, and Daddy – who had worked all six days prior to the eight hour Sunday drive that brought us to Florida and had to have been exhausted – would smile and produce a quarter. My sister and I would sit atop a fully made shaking bed, breathing in the air-conditioned air of vacation and watching our parents unload our packed station wagon. Vacation began with the first shake of that bed.

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For more information contact Mark Thomas, The Thunderbird Inn in Savannah, GA — mark@thethunderbirdinn.com

Valley Ho pre-1960

One that still has its footing is Hotel Valley Ho in Downtown Scottsdale. The hotel was built in 1956, only five years after Scottsdale was incorporated as a city. Scottsdale was mainly a farming community, but starting in the 1930s it increasingly became known as a wintertime destination and artists’ colony. At the time of incorporation in 1951, there were only 2,000 people living in the one-square-mile city. Phoenix, which had 107,000 residents, was the bustling center of business and culture, and Scottsdale was considered a far drive.

The Valley Ho was the sister property to the famed Westward Ho in Downtown Phoenix; both were owned by John B. Mills. Husband and wife Robert and Evelyn Foehl were joint owners of Hotel Valley Ho and also developed and managed the resort. They lived on-site in a private apartment with an enclosed garden. Evelyn, known for her abundant hospitality, once said, “It has always been my opinion that to be a successful hostess in the resort hotel business, the important thing is to make your guest feel he is wanted.”

Architect Edward L. Varney was commissioned to design the buildings. With offices in both Arizona and California, he was one of the wealthiest architects in the Valley. Varney was known for his minimalist, modern style. His designs included Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Stadium and H.B. Farmer Building, the Motorola Building on McDowell Rd. (now General Dynamics), and the Phoenix Municipal Building. He was undoubtedly ahead of his time, putting all of the electrical wiring, plumbing, and mechanical fixtures for the Valley Ho in underground tunnels (while nearby neighborhoods received their power through above-ground utility poles). He also sub-structured the hotel to support a future seven-story tower — at a time when growth in Scottsdale was outwards, not upwards.

The design of the hotel became instantly distinctive – it combined modern and Southwestern styles in a way never before seen. The signature element was and is the set of Native-American-motif concrete panels that line the property. Ironically, it is said that Varney opposed these panels, on the grounds that they were too elaborate. The hotel was also innovative in that it was the first in Scottsdale to have central air conditioning, thusly the first to be open year-round. Construction costs totaled $1.5 million, equivalent to $12 million today.

Guests could book one of the 99 rooms for $7.50 a night in 1956; they offered luxuries like rollaway sofa beds, televisions with rabbit ears, and central-air conditioning. Some came with kitchenettes. A diving pool at the center of the property was the hub of activity, playing host to banquets, fashion shows, and lazy afternoons.

The Foehls brought many celebrity clients with them from their previous resort in Southern California. They relished the fact that none of the paparazzi would follow them to Scottsdale, affording them more privacy than, say, Palm Springs. A few of the celebrities who visited Hotel Valley Ho included Bing Crosby, Tony Curtis, and Janet Leigh. Zsa Zsa Gabor and her daughter rode horses around the property during their visits, and perhaps most famously, teen idols Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood had their 1957 wedding reception in the hotel ballroom, upon recommendation of Wagner’s parents, who were friends of the Foehls and regular guests at the hotel.

In 1958, two wings were added to the hotel at the north end, designed by architect Joe B. Wong. This brought the total number of rooms to 178. The Ramada Inn was built just south of the Valley Ho in 1961. In 1973, Robert Foehl passed away. Hotel Valley Ho was acquired by Ramada, added to the Ramada Inn across the street, and renamed Ramada’s Valley Ho Resort. It transitioned from an upscale, well-styled motor hotel to a property focused on family and convention business. Over the years, the buildings lost their luster. Signature concrete columns were covered in mirrors; airy, windowed walkways were made dark, and a host of other unfortunate design changes were made.

In 2002, the property went up for sale. The highest bidder wanted to tear it down. Luckily, that deal fell through and the bid went to MSR Properties, a local company run by the Lyon family. MSR elected Westroc to manage the resort, and the Westroc team executed a strong vision to restore the resort to its former mid-century splendor.

Valley Ho after 7 story tower was added in 2008

Construction began in 2004, and was done by Kitchell Construction, the local company that originally built the hotel back in 1956. Total restoration costs came to $80 million; no details were overlooked. The hotel re-opened on December 20, 2005, 49 years to-the-date from its original opening. Additions included ZuZu, OH Pool, and VH Spa for Vitality + Health. Trader Vic’s, now in the process of being converted to a new, independent restaurant concept, opened in June of 2006. The seven-story Tower was completed in January of 2008 — a continuation of Varney’s plans. The original design was always kept in mind, both for the restoration and new construction.

Alan Hess, architect and author of numerous mid-century modern texts, has called Hotel Valley Ho “one of the best-preserved mid-century hotels in the country”. Extensive renovations have brought the hotel to a new, modern standard of luxury, while honoring its classic design roots. Relax in the ZuZu Lounge while sipping on a martini to classic fifties tunes, and you’ll forget this mid-century gem exists in the present.

Thunderbird Inn is lodging sponsor for vinyl record & poster event in Savannah GA

At the Thunderbird Inn, we don’t just call ourselves “the hippest hotel in Savannah”. No, we live up to the title by being a cool place and by doing cool things. That made us a natural to be the hotel sponsor for Bandwagon 2012 – a Savannah poster art festival that also includes a major record show/sale, not to mention a free street concert with live music. Thunderbird Inn was also the 2011 lodging sponsor.

Posters? Vinyl? Hey, they rocked the Sixties!

Vinyl wasn’t today’s little niche for sound fanatics, it flat-out ruled – if you had your own music, it was on vinyl. And our walls were plastered with posters, that affordable, accessible art form. We had psychedelic ones, black light versions, flocked black light versions, all those variations on the “Endless Summer” poster, you name it. Pop culture in the Sixties is where posters and records met up and got married.

Check out how poster art has evolved, and even try your hand at some printmaking during Bandwagon. Oh, and did we mention – it’s free! It runs Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4, and the big street dance is on Montgomery Street Saturday night. The locations – the Savannah College of Art and Design Student Center and the street in front of Seed Eco Lounge – are easy walking distance from the Thunderbird. Registered hotel guests can leave their car in our lot and party their hearts out.

We’re glad we got on the Bandwagon! Read more at www.attendbandwagon, which has a cool guide you can download. Thunderbird Inn lodging in downtown Savannah is sold out for the Bandwagon event.

P.S. Georgia’s biggest musical event just got news in USAToday, so we encourage you to make early reservations for Savannah Music Festival (March 22 – April 7, 2012) . We’ve got $89 weekday / $129 weekend deals at The Thunderbird Inn near festival venues in downtown Savannah, GA.

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