{"id":130,"date":"2006-07-16T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/16\/bel-aire-motel-clinton-hwy-found\/"},"modified":"2006-07-16T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T23:47:20","slug":"bel-aire-motel-clinton-hwy-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/16\/bel-aire-motel-clinton-hwy-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Bel Aire Motel &#8211; Clinton Hwy &#8211; Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" id=\"image84\" alt=\"Bel Aire\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/\/uploads\/2006\/07\/bel-aire.jpg?w=840\" align=\"left\" \/>This postcard eluded me for a while because I had no information on it&#8217;s location. But a reader of\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Swank Pad Forums\" href=\"http:\/\/forum.hukilau.org\/viewtopic.php?t=204\" target=\"_blank\">my forums<\/a> knew it and pointed me to the right place. I drove past there daily for a months now and didn&#8217;t recognize it.<br clear=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"840\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image85\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Bel Aire now 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/\/uploads\/2006\/07\/bel-aire1.jpg?fit=840%2C277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is pretty run down. But there are people there doing something. Likely <em>not <\/em>making it a motel. Now we know<a title=\"Google Map\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=Clinton+Hwy+%26+Murray+Dr,+Knoxville,+TN+37912&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=36.008724,-83.99951&#038;spn=0.002274,0.005364&#038;t=h&#038;om=1\" target=\"_blank\"> the location<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"840\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image86\" height=\"174\" alt=\"Bel Aire now 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/\/uploads\/2006\/07\/bel-aire2.jpg?fit=840%2C174\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This postcard eluded me for a while because I had no information on it&#8217;s location. But a reader of\u00c2\u00a0my forums knew it and pointed me to the right place. I <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/16\/bel-aire-motel-clinton-hwy-found\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,539,540],"tags":[488,517,701,261,427],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knoxville","category-retro-goodies","category-retro-preservation","tag-bel-aire","tag-clinton-hwy","tag-knoxville","tag-motel","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-26","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":806,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2013\/01\/13\/ridgeview-motel-knoxville-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":130,"position":0},"title":"Ridgeview Motel &#8211; Knoxville Then and Now","author":"Swanky","date":"January 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A New Year's resolution was to add more to the Swank Pad, and so we have an addition to Knoxville Then and Now! This is the Ridgeview Motel in Clinton. See the place now at the site: Ridgeview Motel.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/retro-goodies\/architecture-retro-goodies-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ridgeview Motel","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ridgeviewbutton.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":284,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/10\/13\/knoxville-postcard-show-next-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":130,"position":1},"title":"Knoxville Postcard Show next Weekend","author":"Swanky","date":"October 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I picked up this new card of the Sharp's Motel at the Clinton Antiques Fair today. For the complete story on this Motel, click here.\u00c2\u00a0A big postcard dealer. She will be at the postcard show with her complete collection. It was great to see a stack of just Knoxville cards.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ephemera&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ephemera","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/ephemera\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1076,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2014\/12\/28\/knoxville-then-now-westwood-motel-kingston-pike\/","url_meta":{"origin":130,"position":2},"title":"Knoxville Then &#038; Now &#8211; Westwood Motel Kingston Pike","author":"Swanky","date":"December 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00c2\u00a0I have been meaning to add this motel on Kingston Pike for a long time. We dropped in to try Archer's BBQ and so I took some pictures and added it today. A relic of the 50s that stands today, the Westwood Motel, part of the Knoxville Then and Now\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/retro-goodies\/architecture-retro-goodies-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/westwoodpc.jpg?fit=1099%2C701&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1080,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2015\/01\/24\/knoxville-then-and-now-mt-vernon-motel\/","url_meta":{"origin":130,"position":3},"title":"Knoxville Then and Now Mt. 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That seemed wrong to me because that building looks nothing like the postcard. A reader on the Swank Forums did the research and it turns\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Googie&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Googie","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/googie\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dwarf-tate2-1.jpg?fit=392%2C250&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":165,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/09\/09\/black-oak-court-motel-found\/","url_meta":{"origin":130,"position":5},"title":"Black Oak Court Motel &#8211; Found","author":"Swanky","date":"September 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the oldest card. Check out the phone number! The postcards say it is 3 miles north of Knoxville on Highways 33 and 71. That's all. So I really had no idea where this was. Then one day as I was driving over Black Oar Ridge on North Broadway,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Knoxville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Knoxville","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/knoxville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}