Poor people have to live someplace. These places are rundown, but it's better than being homeless. Back in the early 60s my father traveled a lot for his work and we stayed in a lot of places like this. They were, of course, in much better shape back then. Hate to see these places in such bad shape.
We really need the cheaper , independent Motels a lot of them have been driven out of business by those big chains that are way too expensive now days.Small Motels will have good weekly and monthly rates for People that need it. I stayed in a Motel for 2 years, I didn't really have too, but I was working so much it was really convenient for Me, the maid would come in and clean a couple times a week.. It had mice when I moved in but I got rid of them.
We really need the cheaper , independent Motels a lot of them have been driven out of business by those big chains that are way too expensive now days.Small Motels will have good weekly and monthly rates for People that need it. I stayed in a Motel for 2 years, I didn't really have too, but I was working so much it was really convenient for Me, the maid would come in and clean a couple times a week.. It had mice when I moved in but I got rid of them.
Lying in bed, can't decide what to watch to fall asleep to and dan uploads 🤗 lately I've been watching "quiet time" over and over again becaus it always calms me down❤
As a committed lover of all things Mercedes Benz, I WILL be ordering that amazing photo print! Thanks for yet another wonderful piece of mental comfort food; all I need now are some oatmeal cookies, a glass of milk and a nap!
@@DanBellFilmIt It was in the grass area in front of the house. Mom's aunt and uncle got divorced sometime in the 90s and we never really went around anymore. I'm pretty sure it was only put in after that, because I don't remember playing on it. I have absolutely swam in that pool though lol
That Days Inn with the police tape? There was a news article from December 2023 about a guy shooting a woman he paid for "services" at a north Harrisburg Days Inn...
“There isn’t a Cadillac in sight“ lol!!! 😂😂😂 I really liked that little downtown building that was very old-fashioned with the curved windows! Fun journey!!
Seen a lot of these places with you Dan--but for me the creepiest one was where you saw that guy throught the window that looked like santa clause. I had nightmares about that guy
I was thinking how very sad and awful to live in some of the places you visit. Then I looked around at my 1959 ranch home with original aluminum-frame windows rattling in the breeze, hardwood floors that badly need refinishing and original kitchen cabinets that also need work & said, Who am I to judge?!
Hey Dan, just want to say how much I appreciate you and the content you put out. I never learned how to drive because I live in Toronto and we have pretty good public transit (plus cars are expensive). I love touring the more seedy side of life but often feel like a target. Your content is like having a drive with a friend who takes me to all the places I wanted to be nosy about.
Oh man, I used to deliver car parts, my favorite job ever. You've been on a few of my old delivery routes and I'm smiling every time I recognize a place I've seen.
I've never stayed at nor explored these places, but I always liked seeing parts of this state. It's just kinda cool seeing these places through someone else's eyes.
The 40 Winks used to be "Paul's Motel" in the early 2000's and was a well known place for lebanon valley college guys to meet their girlfriends for an overnight rendezvous away from the dorms
The bottles in the window could of been a cool picture. But lots of interesting shots here. Also loved the White Rose, looked very cozy outside at least.
I used to take roadtrips with my Grandmother and Great Aunt every Summer through the 1960s. We always stayed at the nicest little roadside Motor Courts, usually with a swimming pool. It's a shame to see them disappear from the landscape. One more thing that will be an element of the past.
6:21 that little barn decoration in the middle of the grass looks like it probably used to be part of the mini golf. Actually if you google the motel you can find some photos of that barn and the mini golf course
I like the old adult stores tours you have done. If you are traveling towards eastern pa there are still a couple left near the ohio border along route 18 near the turnpike interchange.
That dude also looked like he had something in his pocket that said, 'if you ain't shoppin, keep movin'. I lived in Anniston, AL, where these dudes, black and white, were plentiful. Even had a towel signal system (red towel: keep on truckin, blue, check in a few days, white, it came an ice storm; friends in low places explained it to me when a trailer park near me had the towels in half their doors (usually while the guy stood in an open door on the lookout most of the time he was awake (or at least every time I passed by to go home (trailers basically on the side of the country road I live; thank God ppl stopped flipping and giving names so County cleaned em out)).
You know that the bridge you drove over at 2:51 has been damaged by multiple floods and is borderline ready to collapse hence all the barricades telling you not to drive over it.
Before they cleaned these type of motels out of north/central Alabama (I-20 is notorious for both lots of long-haul truckers and trafficking/'sleep camps'/Backpage meetups), I'd call em Smoke A Rock Inn.
The red roof inn...all i can think of is the location in Indianapolis that had a section of rooms that were themed for different "romantic" encounters. That part of the hotel was renamed FantaSuites. Thankfully the city condemned it, forcefully took it over and demolished it this year. It was so bad the office was uninhabitable and they brought in an RV to use as the office. I was not so secretly hoping you would be in the area and check it out.
That's kind of a creepy little town... I'm from Southwest Pennsylvania, a good many of those hotel/motel in my area, as well, but a lot are still open and operating! Love the vids!! 👍🏻😊
some of the ones at the start of video could be cute places fixed up , but that Days Inn was really creepy and looks like something really bad happened in the room with the police tape ....
Take a drive through Jamestown, NY and surrounding towns like Gerry, Sinclairville, and Frewsburg some time. Jamestown used to be a center of factories for furniture, tools, plastics, etc. once upon a time. Also Lucille Ball was born there.
Great video Dan, fascinating places especially the one with the gingerbread balconies and rocking chairs, I would love to stay there and use the pool. ❤ Thank you as always and a great time mooching with you. X
This is the first video of yours that I've seen and i immediately subscribed. I love the content because I'm from Pennsylvania and I'm nebby. Lol. Also, your sense of humor is fantastic. I can see myself watching ALL of your videos in the very near future. Kudos Dan!
These Exits are the type I'd imagine people travel to in fiction or movies in order to commit suicide and delay any one who cared from finding out for months (if they divest themselves of ID, car records and phones). I'm a writer of short stories in the Raymond Carver/Solodnz/D Lynch manner so I think of these things for creative purposes, not bumming myself out or contemplating doing it. If I were a filmmaker (fictional), I'd ask you exactly where this is so I could scout it for location purposes.
Bethlehem steel closed down and the knock on effect took out much of the other light industry. The farm crisis was in full rip by the mid 80s. Let's not forget the thing that goes unspoken even to this day; the demographic replacement brought on by advertising "loose welfare" in the New York port authority.
OMG I will look for that Cadillac Motel picture on your website. I have a red Cadillac and the motel sign would suit its space in the parking garage of my home 🤣
I live in lancaster pa. I county from Lebanon pa. I been by some of those spots. The hotels near 83 are interesting in york pa very slummy.You should do Cumberland md I used to live out there.
My girlfriend and I (many years ago) used to stay at the Red Roof Inn (next to San Carlos),before it turned into a Motel 6 and a campground for illegals. I wonder if the Four Points Sheraton is still decent.
AUNT SOOKIE SAID SOME OF THESE MOTELS COULD HAVE BEEN THE OLD STOMPIN' GROUND OF THE JOHNSON GANG. BRUCE JOHNSON SR. AS SHOWN IN AT CLOSE RANGE AN THIS AN THAT.
Yes the place was a Bob Evans Restaurant gone bad. We still have a few up here in northern Indiana. Food is good I think also they are always busy, Evan during off hours. Interesting video. Cheers. 😊
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I stayed at the White Rose in 2016. The owner was super sweet and the rooms are well kept and very cozy.
Yeah, not sure why that place was on the video. It was older but clearly well maintained.
@@mikehunt1924 He praised it the whole time lol
Poor people have to live someplace. These places are rundown, but it's better than being homeless. Back in the early 60s my father traveled a lot for his work and we stayed in a lot of places like this. They were, of course, in much better shape back then. Hate to see these places in such bad shape.
We really need the cheaper , independent Motels a lot of them have been driven out of business by those big chains that are way too expensive now days.Small Motels will have good weekly and monthly rates for People that need it. I stayed in a Motel for 2 years, I didn't really have too, but I was working so much it was really convenient for Me, the maid would come in and clean a couple times a week.. It had mice when I moved in but I got rid of them.
We really need the cheaper , independent Motels a lot of them have been driven out of business by those big chains that are way too expensive now days.Small Motels will have good weekly and monthly rates for People that need it. I stayed in a Motel for 2 years, I didn't really have too, but I was working so much it was really convenient for Me, the maid would come in and clean a couple times a week.. It had mice when I moved in but I got rid of them.
@@BETTERWORLDSGT I can't stand some of those chains. The more you pay for a room, the farther you have to sclep your bags from car to room.😊
Lying in bed, can't decide what to watch to fall asleep to and dan uploads 🤗 lately I've been watching "quiet time" over and over again becaus it always calms me down❤
There's a "Relax Inn" in my town that everyone calls the "Relapse Inn".
Daze Inn are too.
The notices on the Relax Inn said “if this place makes Dan Bells video, you know it’s amazing”
🎉🎉🎉😂
“Not a Cadillac in sight” 😅😅
But there was a 90s Jaguar so you know it was classy
"Where's the miniature golf at?" 🤣🤣🤣
As a committed lover of all things Mercedes Benz, I WILL be ordering that amazing photo print! Thanks for yet another wonderful piece of mental comfort food; all I need now are some oatmeal cookies, a glass of milk and a nap!
My mom's aunt and uncle used to own the Cadillac Motel in Palmyra many years ago, it was once a nice place... sad to see it now 🙁
where’s the miniature golf course at?
@@DanBellFilmIt It was in the grass area in front of the house. Mom's aunt and uncle got divorced sometime in the 90s and we never really went around anymore. I'm pretty sure it was only put in after that, because I don't remember playing on it. I have absolutely swam in that pool though lol
That Days Inn with the police tape? There was a news article from December 2023 about a guy shooting a woman he paid for "services" at a north Harrisburg Days Inn...
Maybe the miniature golf is so miniature that you can’t see it
“There isn’t a Cadillac in sight“ lol!!! 😂😂😂
I really liked that little downtown building that was very old-fashioned with the curved windows! Fun journey!!
There was a cat in one of the windows at the days inn!
At about 14:20 if anyone is curious!!
The White Rose Motel was really cute. Loved the lattice iron work around the porches. Great video Dan!
I think that restaurant was a Bob Evans?
Yes. Down on the farm.
I remember the Bob's Big Boy restaurants😂
bob evans....new cumberland...was open in 2017 according to google street maps
Yep. That front brick facade with the circular opening at the top seems pretty standard Bob Evans design. Such as it is.
Are you still doing the Dirtiest Hotels videos again Dan? I missed all funny horror comedy jokes about bad hotels!
Slices of Americana I never want to let go of.
Seen a lot of these places with you Dan--but for me the creepiest one was where you saw that guy throught the window that looked like santa clause. I had nightmares about that guy
Which video was this?
I was thinking how very sad and awful to live in some of the places you visit. Then I looked around at my 1959 ranch home with original aluminum-frame windows rattling in the breeze, hardwood floors that badly need refinishing and original kitchen cabinets that also need work & said, Who am I to judge?!
😂😂😂 Sounds like me! Are you sure you aren't living here, with me?!? @terimckay4128 🤣
I am truly loving these motel drives. I've never been to any of these but they remind me so much of seedy motels all over the country.
Motels with people living there and no cars in the car park, sets a bleak image for sure.
"Not a Cadillac in sight" love that comment!
Hey Dan, just want to say how much I appreciate you and the content you put out. I never learned how to drive because I live in Toronto and we have pretty good public transit (plus cars are expensive). I love touring the more seedy side of life but often feel like a target. Your content is like having a drive with a friend who takes me to all the places I wanted to be nosy about.
Dan, I love your videos and this one especially for the nostalgia of these places. Thanks for shooting this!
So much of our country is in such a state of decline. WTF have our leaders done to us. Too busy catering to other countries and special interests.
I'm living for these motel videos 💯
If you're ever in Indy and want to see some of the sketchiest stuff and interesting stuff around, I can tour it with you! I love this kinda stuff!
Oh man, I used to deliver car parts, my favorite job ever. You've been on a few of my old delivery routes and I'm smiling every time I recognize a place I've seen.
I've never stayed at nor explored these places, but I always liked seeing parts of this state. It's just kinda cool seeing these places through someone else's eyes.
Right on!
Dan I really need a new episode of this dirty room 😂 I’m having flash backs lol
I love these videos! Great relaxing videos and love your sense of humor
Frankie says Relax Inn
Don't do it 😂
Good Friday night to u Dan, thanks for sharing this and all that you do to bring us content like this, are you watching the Olympics games.
The 40 Winks used to be "Paul's Motel" in the early 2000's and was a well known place for lebanon valley college guys to meet their girlfriends for an overnight rendezvous away from the dorms
At 17:14 that restaurant used to be a Bob Evans. They were a huge chain that specialized in breakfast, but had lunch and dinner too. It was good food.
Absolutely loved seeing these. Weirdly I didn't find most of them to be grim or depressing, they generally looked OK to really nice ❤
The bottles in the window could of been a cool picture. But lots of interesting shots here. Also loved the White Rose, looked very cozy outside at least.
These all look worthy of an adr episode!
thanks for the new video 👍👍😃😃
The red Carpet Inn has more satellite dishes than NASA ! LOL
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@@DanBellFilmIt 😊❤️
All those dumps, then the one cute old style hotel. Theres no reason for these places to be run down, theyre just cheap.
2:58 anyone else think this situation had to have been used as a body disposal solution at least once?
I used to take roadtrips with my Grandmother and Great Aunt every Summer through the 1960s. We always stayed at the nicest little roadside Motor Courts, usually with a swimming pool. It's a shame to see them disappear from the landscape. One more thing that will be an element of the past.
The White Rose is looking like a place I’d like to experience with how small and cozy it’s looking from the outside
If I ever run off to Niagara Falls to hook up with Fast Food Frankenstein again, I'll stay at the White Rose Motel!
Things you don't expect to see in run-down car washes: trailers full of furniture!
I fucking love these btw. It’s almost better to me than Dead Malls
"Oh my god, I LOVE this place so MUCH".
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That place is definitely spooky.
Put your head on a pillow at the Hershey Travel Inn and you’ll wake up to a chocolate kiss.
Dan, I fear for your safety sometimes
Thanks for filming in PA!
great video Dan! Relax inn! More like the exlax inn! lol
6:21 that little barn decoration in the middle of the grass looks like it probably used to be part of the mini golf.
Actually if you google the motel you can find some photos of that barn and the mini golf course
That old Mercedes was quite a site. Great video.
In Central PA, we say LEB-eh-nen. The really Dutchie say LEP-nin.
I like the old adult stores tours you have done. If you are traveling towards eastern pa there are still a couple left near the ohio border along route 18 near the turnpike interchange.
Great video as always! ❤️
" The Shit Bird Inn" each and every one of them.
“Persuades Benz” @16:38
What on earth is going on with these places?!? 😂 your commentary is phenomenal!! 🤣I’m 💀💀💀
I LIVE RIGHT NEXT TO 422 NEAR BUTLER PA!!!!!!! YES THAT BUTLER PA
Hey Dan..That is the ExLax Inn LOL!!!
YES! Right next to the Hershey Squirts Inn! 😝
Pennsylvania is like the Germany of America.
At 17:15 The old restaurant was probably a Bob Evans chain location
16:23 That dude is 100% selling something illegal out of that room lol
That dude also looked like he had something in his pocket that said, 'if you ain't shoppin, keep movin'. I lived in Anniston, AL, where these dudes, black and white, were plentiful. Even had a towel signal system (red towel: keep on truckin, blue, check in a few days, white, it came an ice storm; friends in low places explained it to me when a trailer park near me had the towels in half their doors (usually while the guy stood in an open door on the lookout most of the time he was awake (or at least every time I passed by to go home (trailers basically on the side of the country road I live; thank God ppl stopped flipping and giving names so County cleaned em out)).
You know that the bridge you drove over at 2:51 has been damaged by multiple floods and is borderline ready to collapse hence all the barricades telling you not to drive over it.
My family stayed at the white rose several years ago on a family vacation. Was a nice place. Was nice seeing it again. Cool video
Thank you for appreciating these places
I 😂 with the Dietz’s house! Great video Dan!
I live in Lebanon. The travel in is open. It’s basically a shooting gallery. I’ve never seen more than two cars in the parking lot.
George Carlin once said that if he owned a motel he’d call it “The Sleep and Fuck Motel”.
Before they cleaned these type of motels out of north/central Alabama (I-20 is notorious for both lots of long-haul truckers and trafficking/'sleep camps'/Backpage meetups), I'd call em Smoke A Rock Inn.
The red roof inn...all i can think of is the location in Indianapolis that had a section of rooms that were themed for different "romantic" encounters. That part of the hotel was renamed FantaSuites. Thankfully the city condemned it, forcefully took it over and demolished it this year. It was so bad the office was uninhabitable and they brought in an RV to use as the office. I was not so secretly hoping you would be in the area and check it out.
Loving this video tours, Dan. Most of those places must have been pretty nice at one time. 😔
The restaurant you didn't know of -- with the red roof -- was a Bob Evan's. Midwest staple with breakfast all day.
That's kind of a creepy little town... I'm from Southwest Pennsylvania, a good many of those hotel/motel in my area, as well, but a lot are still open and operating!
Love the vids!! 👍🏻😊
Apocalyptic level misery
How about the roof on Cadillac Motel !omg , falling apart
some of the ones at the start of video could be cute places fixed up , but that Days Inn was really creepy and looks like something really bad happened in the room with the police tape ....
Take a drive through Jamestown, NY and surrounding towns like Gerry, Sinclairville, and Frewsburg some time. Jamestown used to be a center of factories for furniture, tools, plastics, etc. once upon a time. Also Lucille Ball was born there.
If I’m not mistaken, didn’t the band 10,000 Maniacs get their start there as well?
@@rapman5791 Yup. Natalie was born in Jamestown in WCA hospital.
Great video Dan, fascinating places especially the one with the gingerbread balconies and rocking chairs, I would love to stay there and use the pool. ❤
Thank you as always and a great time mooching with you. X
I want to stay at the White Rose Motel! That place is so cute!
This is the first video of yours that I've seen and i immediately subscribed. I love the content because I'm from Pennsylvania and I'm nebby. Lol. Also, your sense of humor is fantastic. I can see myself watching ALL of your videos in the very near future. Kudos Dan!
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Hey Dan, what camera do you use to film these? Just a phone camera? Quality is actually pretty great. :)
iphone 15 pro max / 4k 60fps
I live right near these places. I drive 422 every day to work. Lebanon, PA.
Great video Dan! You should do a Saturday night live in Reading!
Great idea! I saw a bunch of seedy hotels/motels when I went through Morgantown PA a few weeks ago.
you know it's "miniature" golf when you can't see it. lmao
These Exits are the type I'd imagine people travel to in fiction or movies in order to commit suicide and delay any one who cared from finding out for months (if they divest themselves of ID, car records and phones). I'm a writer of short stories in the Raymond Carver/Solodnz/D Lynch manner so I think of these things for creative purposes, not bumming myself out or contemplating doing it.
If I were a filmmaker (fictional), I'd ask you exactly where this is so I could scout it for location purposes.
12:08 @Dan , NICE truck ! I LOVE the color !!! 👍 I have a '23 Ram 1500 but its black in color
Spent my childhood growing up in lebanon pa. Used to be such a nice city back in the day. Not so much now.
Bethlehem steel closed down and the knock on effect took out much of the other light industry. The farm crisis was in full rip by the mid 80s. Let's not forget the thing that goes unspoken even to this day; the demographic replacement brought on by advertising "loose welfare" in the New York port authority.
OMG I will look for that Cadillac Motel picture on your website. I have a red Cadillac and the motel sign would suit its space in the parking garage of my home 🤣
I grew up in Lebanon & still live near it. There are some weird places along 422. I could tell you more about nearly all the places you stopped at.
I live in lancaster pa. I county from Lebanon pa. I been by some of those spots. The hotels near 83 are interesting in york pa very slummy.You should do Cumberland md I used to live out there.
My girlfriend and I (many years ago) used to stay at the Red Roof Inn (next to San Carlos),before it turned into a Motel 6 and a campground for illegals. I wonder if the Four Points Sheraton is still decent.
AUNT SOOKIE SAID SOME OF THESE MOTELS COULD HAVE BEEN THE OLD STOMPIN' GROUND OF THE JOHNSON GANG. BRUCE JOHNSON SR. AS SHOWN IN AT CLOSE RANGE AN THIS AN THAT.
17:28 mark that old restaurant looked like a Bob Evans,
As soon as you venture east out of Derry Twp. (Hershey), things go downhill fast. Lebanon Co. Is basically a crap hole.
The red and white restaurant was probably a Bob Evans
Yes the place was a Bob Evans Restaurant gone bad. We still have a few up here in northern Indiana. Food is good I think also they are always busy, Evan during off hours. Interesting video. Cheers. 😊
In the '60s, my brothers and I would have happily stayed in any one of these places. When they were new ;)