{"id":47286,"date":"2016-07-28T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wreckyratbird.com\/?p=47286"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:58","slug":"the-maple-farms-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2016\/the-maple-farms-motel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maple Farms Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47289 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ontarioexploration.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/maple-farms-motelsign.png\" alt=\"maple farms motelsign\" width=\"492\" height=\"796\" \/>I&#8217;m meeting my Uncle for lunch tomorrow. I looked up the restaurant on Google Maps to see how to drive there. I checked the street view and found this abandoned motel almost across the street.<\/p>\n<p>It may already be demolished. Google&#8217;s images were not very recent. The motel was boarded up and behind a construction fence. The area is loaded with new strip\/ box stores so quite likely the motel won&#8217;t last long if it is still there at all.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nopatternrequired.com\/2013\/09\/friendship-inn-maple-farms-motel-road-trip-to-the-past\/\">No Pattern Required &#8211;\u00a0Friendship Inn Maple Farms Motel \u2013 Road Trip To The Past<\/a>\u00a0for images of the motel taken from a brochure in the 1970&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Update &#8211; August, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The hotel was gone. No sign it had ever been there at all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47287\" src=\"http:\/\/ontarioexploration.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/maple-farms-motel.png\" alt=\"maple farms motel\" width=\"1329\" height=\"501\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47288\" src=\"http:\/\/ontarioexploration.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/maple-farms-motel1.png\" alt=\"maple farms motel1\" width=\"1532\" height=\"707\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47284\" src=\"http:\/\/ontarioexploration.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tumblr_m3yy99pFbN1r2l2w2o1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_m3yy99pFbN1r2l2w2o1_1280\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source for the last photograph: <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhelmer.tumblr.com\/post\/22975484233\/maple-farms-motel-closed-closed\">Michael Helmer Photography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2016\/the-maple-farms-motel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Maple Farms Motel\"><p>I&#8217;m meeting my Uncle for lunch tomorrow. I looked up the restaurant on Google Maps to see how to drive there. I checked the street view and found this abandoned motel almost across the street. It may already be demolished. Google&#8217;s images were not very recent. The motel was boarded up and behind a construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[281,405,99,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76140,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47286\/revisions\/76140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}