Pacific Motel

The owner of this motel clearly appreciated the sign, and maintained it. But I can't find this sign now. I hope that it has been relocated and still survives.

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illtakeyourphoto! says:

Sadly this is gone. I photographed it in its last days, then one day it was on the ground and then gone the next. This was next to Rolling Green.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

That is an outrage. It was a great example of its type, in superbly maintained condition. I thought I just wasn't looking in the right place when I went back to re-photograph it. It was worth a lot of money to somebody, if they had bothered to find a buyer, so there was no reason to destroy it, other than laziness.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

illtakeyourphoto! says:

That is what I think too. There is always a market for an old sign, I mean, they really attract attention.

I am afraid that the King's Dim Sum sign in West Sac will meet the same fate. And that really pisses me off, because for years West Sac didn't care that the sign was so high. But now that they have a baseball team and a new, what is it, chamber of commerce down the street, the sign has to go now?

I contacted Roadside Peek maybe trying to get that sign some help. They replied and said they would contact the L.A. sign museum and that was it, I have never heard anything else.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

johntodd says:

THANK YOU for taking pictures of these signs! I intended to get pics of them before the motels were demolished, but never got around to it. Then, one day they were gone. Good show!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

arts enthusiast says:

Tom, you said it best...what an absolute outrage that this wasn't saved.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Tom Spaulding says:

It's worse than I thought. An article in the Sacramento Business Journal from 2002 that I found today indicates the owner wanted to keep it open, but was forced to sell to developers.

Developers Lux Taylor and Skip Maggiora wanted to built a shopping center, and in addition to their parcel of land, they wanted the land where the Pacific Motel and the Ritz Motel stood. Officials from the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency were threatening to use eminent domain to take the land if the owners would not sell to the developers.

Patel in the article: "If Maggiora wants to build a store, he should build it on his land only. This is not real fair."

And I have to agree. It's not fair. What I remember of the Pacific Motel is a sign in like-new condition, and an immaculately manicured flower garden. It was not blight. I hate developers almost as much as I hate the officials they keep in their pockets.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

loungelistener says:

(sigh) Bastards.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

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