Welcome to the Haven Motel.
Well, that’s what it was renamed to in 1958 and remained so until the 1980’s. When Ozzie & Harriet Nelson, boxer Joe Louis, and the von Trapp family of The Sound of Music fame stayed here it was known as Lein’s Cabins.
The adobe structures now sit in a state of disrepair. Whenever I drive past them on H12 I’ve noticed that they are decaying quite rapidly now that the weather has loosened the internal brickwork.
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How do I get to this location? I am doing a project for my college photography class based on abandoned properties and would LOVE to add a historical element to it…this place looks fantastic!
Better hurry….”Do you recognize these bungalows?? All of nature’s overgrowth since theearly 1970’s has been removed to expose these ancient ruins, the first of which were built in 1931. The bungalows are scheduled to be removed next,thus returning the land to its original state!
[…] After discovering the location I did a quick Google search and discovered that the diminutive motel once attracted international celebrity. I have occasionally kept tabs on the accelerated decay of the location since moving into the […]
i stopped there a few weeks ago and everything is gone. they even gutted out the woods that the little cabins were in. it it now just an empty field.
It is totally gone. I managed to get a few shots of them tearing the whole place apart.