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The Sahara Apartment Motor Hotel
The Sahara Apartment Motor Hotel
The Sahara Apartment Motor Hotel

The Sahara Apartment Motor Hotel

Dateca. 1960
Mediumcardstock; ink
Dimensions3 7/16 × 5 1/2 in. (8.7 × 14 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Nancy Tucker
Object numberPA2014.007.395
DescriptionGuests swim in the swimming pool at the Sahara Apartment Motor Hotel at 5915 Gibson Boulevard Southeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are three women in the pool wearing swimming caps. Two people stand on the pool deck, one wearing a swimsuit and the other dressed in casual clothes. People are seated in lawn chairs in the background and standing beside the two-story building to the right. The motel is two-stories and made of brick. It has a flat roof and hanging planters along the roofline. There are breezeways along the building and the doorways to the rooms are brown.
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