This is a thread I put up last year... It's a great sign at a motel in Mojave, CA
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthr...ght=motel+sign
As far as motel TVs; I've had a few. The earliest was a Hoffman 12" round tube set with no audio and no on-off switch in it. It was evidently designed to go up high, and then there was a radio with a coin box that sat on the bureau, which also provided the sound and the coin-op control for the TV. I have also bad memories of a Packard-Bell 21" B&W table model at the Motel 6 in Lompoc, CA... it was about 1974, and my mother and I stayed a night there on the way to someplace we were going. The TV had horrible reception, and it cost .75 to find that out. I was really upset that I missed my Saturday morning cartoons that day! The first color TV in a motel I saw was a Magnavox tube set at Howard Johnson's in Chester, PA in 1978. It actually worked OK.
Charles