Had I actually been on vacation the past week, this is where you would have found me: Bad Girls’ Hotel.

All the photos have been done in the course of a year at the notorious “Carlton Arms Hotel” on 25th street. Nobody in their right mind would ever stay there… I guess almost nobody does acid anymore….but if they did….this is how they would decorate a hotel.  Over the years the hotel is said to have been a brothel, a flophouse, a welfare hotel…..and one can easily see the remnants of all those previous lives. But now its an adventure. With every room being decorated by a different artist. You can be inside a submarine, inside an Egyptian tomb, or in a room that reminds you of a prostitute’s room in a notorious TexMex border “boys town” establishment.

There may not be free in-room wifi (or, for that matter, in-room phone), but I’m sure I would have found something — or somebody — to pass the time with.  (Not that I’m discouraging anyone from booking a room here, of course.  See the “candid traveler photos” for yourself, which are, also of course, not nearly as enticing as the free gallery from when I’ve sampled.)

Photo: Bob Coulter, Bad Girls’ Hotel, now in Internet-free, trip-friendly book form from Goliath

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