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Title: El Rancho Tropicana "in the Land of Wine and Roses"
Description: Santa Rosa, CA: El Rancho Tropicana, 0. 1st Printing. Postcard. This is a tall, thin postcard ( 9" x3.5"). The postcard is in Very Good+ condition and has not been used. There is a light crease to the top egde of the postcard. This postcard is for the El Rancho Tropicana motel in Santa Rosa, CA. "The 1950s and 1960s marked the pinnacle of the motel industry in the United States. As these mom-and-pop motor lodges began adding newer amenities such as swimming pools or color TV (a luxury in the 1960s). In Santa Rosa, long before the arrival of the present-day Santa Rosa Marketplace, El Rancho Tropicana Motel was considered the jewel of south Santa Rosa Avenue. It was a tidy, low-slung horseshoe of a motor lodge that grew from 25 rooms to 275 with a restaurant, bar and multiple pools. When the Oakland Raiders weren’t staying there during summer their annual training camp, El Rancho Tropicana hosted garden shows, boxing matches and musical acts ranging from Van Morrison to the Blue Oyster Cult." (from the Blog Life is a Highway). Very Good+ .

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