It's a obsession with me, motel room key fobs

Especially with the number 32,. HRP

 

Does Brenda know about this????

 

She gave me the first one. HRP

 

Just stayed in a place in Bennington, Vt. that used numbers cut out of old license plates. We had a red on white, 1 and a yellow 8 on blue.

 

From a time when hotel rooms had actual keys! I stayed in a BnB near Jacksonville a couple years back that had actual keys, it was the first time in a while. Having been a frequent traveler much of my career, I've come to despise those magnetic card keys. I get two as it seems one always stops working during my stay. The latest gimmick is opening your room with your smartphone. Give me a key any day!

 

Hey Lou, Brenda told me you guys got to move in your new home, congratulations. HRP

 

Yes, It will be 2 weeks on Friday. Still unpacking, assembling, installing, et al. Thanks!

 

HRP, now I'll have to keep an eye out for those motel room key fobs. People bring in brass keys to the scrapyard where I work, sometimes with fobs. Any motel ones come in they're yours.

 

Danny
when we visit from Aussie each year my wife takes a photo of room number
outside before we enter, all have neat pictures
check out the keys hanging in a motel in Fortuna CA

 

Thank you sir. HRP

 

Now that's a collection, I'm just a novice at this game.

I guess I could have had many more in my collection by now but I restricted myself to the 32 room numbers. HRP

 

Rooms by the hour? I guess that's for a quick sleeper!

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That’s from St.Louis! I remember that place. It was a beautiful 1930’s era Art Deco place that had a garage with each room for your car.


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This is the room number that Jim Morrison reportedly ask for when he stayed there. HRP

 

A couple more. HRP

 

I used to have a pretty large collection of room keys. Kept them as trophies.
Lost them in the divorce.

 

Great idea, what could go wrong? /s

 

Nice! Gotta hide the car!

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Someday, you're going to set down your key and a helpful soul will drop it into the nearest mailbox.
When it reaches the postal authorities the resulting time and velocity paradoxes will tear the entire universe to bits...

 

More. HRP

 

If I am not mistaken that is the room Marion (Janet Leigh) came to an untimely end. HRP

 

Yes but it is just a made up copy. Guy was selling a bunch of them with all kinds of crazy slogans and fake hotel names at a car show. At the time I owned a hearse and thought it would be a fitting key fob.

 

I pretty much knew it was a novelty key fob but if it had 32 I would have in in my collection! HRP

 

First and foremost I resent being called a thief!

I have bought and paid for everyone of the fobs I own with the exception of 5 that I have received as gifts from family & friends. The remainder of the collection as been purchased legally over the last 20 years or so.

I have found them at flee market's, swap meets and ebay.

Hotel & Motel room keys & fobs are a thing of the past, the vast majority of the establishments have been using electronic key cards for many years. HRP

 

I forgot to give this one back, when my Mom and Dad took my sister and I to Mexico back about 1969.

 

Looks like they are still there. 18 locations.

 

We were at the one in Acapulco.