The Crystal City Motel is no more.
The deteriorating, long-vacant motor lodge off of Old Jefferson Davis Highway was torn down this week to make way for the future Boeing regional headquarters.
The next-door Clark Street Playhouse is set to be demolished next. Bisnow reports that construction on the Boeing headquarters is expected to start in April and wrap up by the fall of 2013.
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Good riddance to that eyesore!
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Yesterday, I searched the Web for some pictures of the motel in its glory days. Sadly, I could not find any. I did find some pictures of its cutting-edge 1960s motel design. Kind of depressing just looking at it. Glad it’s gone.
PHOTO – Yeat taken? Look at the cars.
http://washingtondc.citysearch.com/profile/map/10480961/arlington_va/crystal_city_motor_inn.html
“Crystal City Motel has been reduced to scrap.”
How could they tell?
Oh the memories ! I’ll miss you old buddy.
Maybe if we’re lucky the Americana will soon meet the same fate…
See, now I kind of like the Americana. I used to live across from it, and I liked how their neon signage was totally unique in a drab Crystal City landscape.
There was no reason to keep it. All the prostitutes moved to the Days Inn.
A LOT of husbands and wives got cheated on in that motel
Thank goodness that eyesore is gone…. good riddance….
I think I know where this hotel was, but I’m not sure.
Can you provide a before and after photo?
The ones in the article are the “before” shots. It was that ugly.
A couple of years ago I worked about two blocks south of that place and you’re right, that was one butt-freakin’ uuuuugly place.
It could have made a perfect homeless shelter. Oh well.
I have some great 80′s memories of that place…. Sigh. I’m getting old.
Ahh, the STDs I got in that place!!!