Tired Ol' Beach Hotel
Long Beach
September 10, 2005
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The signs all around us speak of a tired old hotel
on the ropes: no parties in the rooms, the ground
may not be level, watch your kids, don't walk through
the glass doors. But the dream is still clear, too:
a 1950s, Miami-Beach-style motel, with blue pool amidst
green lawns and swaying palm trees, surrounded by pink
contemporary buildings. Like the era in which it thrived,
the dream seems to be softly fading away.
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