Alex's Place Traditional Cache
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You seek a camoed and very attractive Altoids tin. It should be an easy grab, but watch out for the local vegetation. It might bite you. Contains log and a few small items. Enjoy. BYOP
The Madonna Inn is located on the northwest corner of Madonna Rd. and the current 101 freeway. Built in 1958 by Alex and Phyllis Madonna, it has the distinction of being the world's first "theme" motel. All of it's 109 rooms have been designed, furnished, and decorated individually, and all represent a different theme i.e, the Irish Hills Room. The other unique aspects of the Inn are the extensive use of rocks, the color pink, and a urinal that uses a cascading rock waterfall. Most of the rocks used in the construction of the Madonna Inn came from the adjacent hill, and have been used in the interior and exterior walls, bathrooms, sinks, floors, showers, and fireplaces. In fact the Caveman Room even has a rock ceiling. The bubble gum pink or "Madonna Pink" color that permeates the entire Inn was basically just a personal preference by Alex and Phyllis Madonna. And, of course, the famous urinal is located in the men's bathroom downstairs below the steakhouse restaurant. The Madonna Inn is unique also in that the person that built it, Alex Madonna, also built the freeway it's next to, as the Madonna Construction company built most of the current 101 highway from Buellton to Salinas in 1953.
Construction on the original 12 unit motel began in 1957, and the motel was opened just before Christmas of 1958. By 1960, another two wings were added with an addition 30 rooms. The coffee shop, steak house, bar, shops, offices, and the drive-thru check-in/out were completed in 1962. In 1967, a fire destroyed the original 12 units, but by 1969, the large 4-story wing on the west end of property was completed bringing the number of rooms to it's present total of 109. Interestingly enough, in all it's years, the Madonna Inn has never had a swimming pool, but one was recently built just behind the south wing units, and is now open.
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