The Ghost Pools of Reno, Nevada
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- See the mortal remains of Reno's motel pools! Some are now planters, some are storage for gravel, some are collectors of rain water.
Bands re-release albums all the time - I'm re-releasing this video! I created this back in 2011 after walks and bike rides downtown turned up curious shapes in the forms of pools in old motel parking lots. Turns out they were once pools!
This video was languishing on my personal page, so I am re-uploading it here to a better, loving home. The video quality is a bit lo-fi because of when it was created, and I gave thought to redoing it but I can't seem to put my hands on the source images.
Since these images were captured, a good quantity of these locations are now gone for good - victims of Reno's motel clear-cutting program. So now these really are ghost pools. Please enjoy if you haven't seen this before, or relive it (LOL) if it's been a minute!
Very well done, Steve! Sad to see so many pools abandoned and/or 'repurposed.' Very effective music track, too!
Many of those scenes are gone for good now too - thanks for watching!
So well done !
Gone are the day.....
The pool days and there vacasiony lure.
Sad but true, yet ode to mid centurey motel style and vibe....
Classsic.
Very interesting. The old reno was very different.
Art Bell on Coast to Coast would tell ghost stories about the Casinos in Navada.
Excellent ! -- One reason motel pools mostly went away because there were so many lawsuits due to accidents....
Just wow. Sad, but sort of fascinating to see that some made an effort to make them into a planter or even a vegetable garden.
I remember a lot of these pools, I swam in the pool at the Hiway 40 motel several times.
Still beautifully errie.
Did the pools become too expensive to maintain? What was the cause of the pools being closed and filled in?
I have no concrete facts but I would assume the cost to maintain vs. ROI didn't pencil, especially once the motels went to a weekly or monthly residence model.