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| Description | This is the old Chief Motel, located along Paint Town Road (US Highway 19) on the Cherokee Reservation in North Carolina. Constructed during the 1950s or 1960s, the Mid-Century modern-style Motel was the longest continually operating motel on the reservation, but closed at the beginning of this month, and is slated to be leveled for parking in order to serve the Harrah’s Casino across the street. It’s sad to see so much of the mid-20th Century lodging on the reservation falling into decay and being demolished, but it’s just the result of success that the reservation has been experiencing since the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, the most profitable casino in the whole Harrah’s chain, opened in 1997. It would be nice to preserve at least a few old signs and buildings just to show the context of the past, but it is a time period of austerity, discrimination, and racial caricature, that, I think, the tribe is trying hard to move past, and the buildings just happen to be symbols from an era in which they were subject to discrimination and limited opportunities compared to the surrounding, majority-white population. Progress is great, but it is nice to have some stuff around to show us where we came from and how we have changed and evolved.Set to be demolished in 2019. |
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| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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