The Slow Decline of the Pie Shops: Madonna Inn

Friday, February 25, 2011

Madonna Inn - San Luis Obispo, California

The Madonna Inn is a hotel in San Luis Obispo, California. According to their website, "the first 12 rooms were completed December 24, 1958, and were given complementary for that night’s stay, to a very surprised group of travelers. An additional 28 rooms were quickly built, making a total of 40 rooms available to travelers.

Demand for public areas to handle the rooms encouraged us in April 1960 to start construction of the main inn, which was to eventually consists of the wine cellar, bakery, coffee shop, dining room, the cocktail lounge, banquet rooms, ladies’ boutique, men’s gift shop, and the gourmet shop.

One hundred ten unique rooms now exist, each decorated differently to suit many individual tastes...rock rooms, waterfall showers, rock fireplaces, European fixtures, and fine furnishings to name a few."

These postcards are by no mean the complete collection. These are just the ones I could find. I would really like to thank Ryan a.k.a It's Better Than Bad for the majority of these postcards. The only ones from my collection are marked with an asterisk. See all the postcards after the cut.