Lorraine Motel -- Memphis TN - Googie Architecture on Waymarking.com

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: (visit link)

Type of Structure: Signage Upswept Roof / Folded Plate Roof(s): no Large Dome(s): no Large Sheet Glass Window(s): yes Boomerang and/or Arrow Shape(s): yes Amoebae Shape(s): no Atomic Model(s): no Starburst(s): no Exposed Steel Beam(s): no Flying Saucer/Rocket Shape(s): no If I knew, I'd be an architect: yes Physical Address: 450 Mulberry St Memphis, TN Web Address or URL: [Web Link]

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