Tower Motel
1339 12th Avenue
1942 - 1965


KENNON BAIRD COLLECTION
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The motel took its name (as did the nearby Tower Shopping Center and Tower Meats) from its close proximity to the KXLJ radio broadcasting tower on Eleventh Avenue.

 



Safeway Now Occupies the Site of the Tower Motel




Tower Motel from Roberts St., late 1940s


THE DAVID HULL COLLECTION

 

James Kitto, 1904-1982

The motel had several owners over the decades. According to available online newspaper archives, the Tower Motel was sold in 1965 to V. L. (Pat) Jones, with the stipulation that it be moved. Jones owned the Log Cabin Motel at 15 E. 16th Ave., and planned to move the Tower Motel to 16th St., adding it to the Log Cabin to create the 29-unit Gold Pan Motel.

There was indeed a Gold Pan Motel operating at the 16th Ave. location until at least 1975, but it is still unclear to this researcher if the Tower Motel was actually moved there.