393. (Barca) Recliners and Organs (Hammond) and Ethel Smith

In an exciting development, 5 of our suites are now equipped with brand new twin Barca Loungers, and fabulous Hammond Organs! These special accommodations can be booked by calling our waiting phone room staff members, who, as you know, always answer the phone with the musical greeting, "Welcome to Loveless Motel - what are you wearing?".  We've also contracted the services of Ethel "Play the white keys, honey" Smith who will be allegedly entertaining on Saturday afternoons at Tickler's Lounge, coming out of retirement for a 12 week engagement, and can entertain you ensuite for a modest charge in these specially decorated rooms. Ethel wishes all to know that her well-publicized recent shock treatments have done a world of good, and have nearly perfectly restored her hearing loss and balance issues.  All Barca/Hammond suites are situated at least 5 doors away from each other so as not to have situations in which the noise of organs being worked over simultaneously creates unwanted dissonance.

107. That box in the attic; History - Edgar Loveless and Sinjin Birdwhistle

      That box in the attic still has lots of photos that we've been rummaging through.  This gent must have stayed at the hotel way back when what is now The Bunkhouse had been a secluded fishing camp on the lake known as "The Loveless Lodge". 

The lodge was  generally unknown but by word of mouth, and was only available to book if you knew someone who knew someone. Townies seeking accommodations for visiting family members were virtually always told they were fully booked, and few had seen it.  Most often booked by small groups of out of town of men arranging their stays by communicating to each other under fictitious names to private mailboxes, it only had a capacity of 40 with a total of 15 rooms with shared baths upstairs. The kitchen, dining room and gathering hall with a check in desk, a bar with a few tables and 2 sofa suites were on the main floor. Staff lived in the basement. Of the  townies who had ever been to the property, one man simply disappeared, and some other men were employed as cook, handyman and "fishing guides"; all were single with no families. It all seemed to be "on the QT."

Two cousins from Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England had immigrated, bought the land and built the lodge with hoarded cash after successfully entering the hospitality trade in New York City after their arrival on Ellis Island in June of 1914. 

 The morning of their departure from the city, the day before Christmas, 1929, Edgar noted a local vaudevillian had declared that ex-stockbrokers were being declared the state bird. They exited via train, in answer to an advertisement in a countryside periodical and headed to the hills of another state. 

People said they looked remarkably alike.  Their names were Edgar Loveless and Sinjin Birdwhistle, which place them solidly in a group of families whose British surnames seemed to have a visibly declining progeny, and these two were no exception.  In town, quiet Edgar was overheard to say his wife died of dysentery in England, while it was said of strapping Sinjin that he wasn't the marrying kind. Seemingly popular with a few of the shop ladies whenever he came into the village for supplies, he was observed to have a high-pitched tone and a propensity to giggle at the end of nearly every other sentence, which put off all but a few of the men in town.

25. Happy Hour at the Mauve Tavern in Smarty Pants Disco

At Loveless Motel, Smarty Pants Disco, located off the lobby, has a back bar called The Mauve Tavern. Through two swinging doors, you'll be surrounded by lots of gold-framed antique mirrors on a deep purple velveteen wall fabric, the glow of soft pink diffused lighting, with long gold speckled vinyl banquettes, tiny tables for two, and deep orange shag carpet throughout, accessed along a 40 foot meat rack standing-only bar- a runway of sorts.  Our Happy Hour hideaway is just the ticket, especially on Friday nights, when it's the kickoff to the weekend. It's strictly cruise, often transactional. Barter and trade, buy and sell. Many locals attend, their eyes fixed on who walks through the door. Can you say "judgmental" and "heavy cruise?"  Don't be intimidated. It's just their quaint style.  The Bobbsey Twins are all grown up now.