Lorraine Motel -- Memphis TN
N 35° 08.051 W 090° 03.480
15S E 768063 N 3891885
The cool Googie-style sign for the Lorraine Motel, a happy fun vintage invitation to one of the most moving museums we have ever been to
Waymark Code: WMNK4Z
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2015
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The Lorraine Motel has 2 cool signs in downtown Memphis, once a 1930s-vintage neon building-mounted sign, and this free-standing Googie sign.
Both were in place on the fateful day on 4 April 1968 when Dr Martin Luther King stepped outside of his hotel room on the 2nd floor of this modest hotel. Seconds later he was dead, cut down by an assassin's bullet fired by James Earl Ray from a flophouse across the street.
Today, Dr King's room and the entire Lorraine motel are preserved as the National Civil Rights museum.
For more on the assassination of this great civil rights leader, see here: (
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