Carol Hotel
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 10:00 pm
Property was bought and will be demoed soon
This was a Clarion Hotel and one of those shady grady guys from India or somewhere like it bought the hotel and it has been like the Bates Motel ever since. First you have this business genius take the letters from the Clarion sign and make the name Carol Hotel from it. Brilliant huh. Then you have this guy selling rooms on priceline and internet travel sites to lure in customers. I have friends who have visited town and got stuck there by priceline and it was a total filthy dump. What the customers dont know is half this hotel is filled up with Meth Heads who are looking to rob them and their vehicles the first chance they get. If the Meth Heads are not down in South O scoring their next Meth 8 ball they are over at Walmart or Super Target on 120th & L shoplifting or robbing customers cars. You are right there is something off there, its a 4th dimension of life that it upside down. Thank the gods this place is going away.choke wrote:I look at this hotel every day on my way to work. Not once have I thought I would like to stay there. Just something about it seems off.
Before the Playboy Club, it was the Smuggler's Inn. Hot upscale disco where the cute teachers from Millard High School went trolling for lawyers. I worked in the kitchen there in high school.zippy wrote:It was originally a Sheraton, and was home to the Playboy Club.
I can see it! I was in my 20s back then but I didn't do disco so I never made it to that place.bigredmed wrote:Before the Playboy Club, it was the Smuggler's Inn. Hot upscale disco where the cute teachers from Millard High School went trolling for lawyers. I worked in the kitchen there in high school.zippy wrote:It was originally a Sheraton, and was home to the Playboy Club.
That is funny, manipulating the letters from Clarion to spell Carol.GRANDPASMUCKER wrote:This was a Clarion Hotel and one of those shady grady guys from India or somewhere like it bought the hotel and it has been like the Bates Motel ever since. First you have this business genius take the letters from the Clarion sign and make the name Carol Hotel from it. Brilliant huh. Then you have this guy selling rooms on priceline and internet travel sites to lure in customers. I have friends who have visited town and got stuck there by priceline and it was a total filthy dump. What the customers dont know is half this hotel is filled up with Meth Heads who are looking to rob them and their vehicles the first chance they get. If the Meth Heads are not down in South O scoring their next Meth 8 ball they are over at Walmart or Super Target on 120th & L shoplifting or robbing customers cars. You are right there is something off there, its a 4th dimension of life that it upside down. Thank the gods this place is going away.choke wrote:I look at this hotel every day on my way to work. Not once have I thought I would like to stay there. Just something about it seems off.
Don't forget its brief stint as the Clarino.choke wrote:That is funny, manipulating the letters from Clarion to spell Carol.GRANDPASMUCKER wrote:This was a Clarion Hotel and one of those shady grady guys from India or somewhere like it bought the hotel and it has been like the Bates Motel ever since. First you have this business genius take the letters from the Clarion sign and make the name Carol Hotel from it. Brilliant huh. Then you have this guy selling rooms on priceline and internet travel sites to lure in customers. I have friends who have visited town and got stuck there by priceline and it was a total filthy dump. What the customers dont know is half this hotel is filled up with Meth Heads who are looking to rob them and their vehicles the first chance they get. If the Meth Heads are not down in South O scoring their next Meth 8 ball they are over at Walmart or Super Target on 120th & L shoplifting or robbing customers cars. You are right there is something off there, its a 4th dimension of life that it upside down. Thank the gods this place is going away.choke wrote:I look at this hotel every day on my way to work. Not once have I thought I would like to stay there. Just something about it seems off.
The Playboy club was around in the mid 80's. It was hardly advertised or promoted and was dead and I think they lost alot of money.MTO wrote:Playboy club, sometimes I seriously wish I lived in the 50s.
That explains why I never never went to the Playboy Club. I spent the most of that period dealing with 3 different girlfriends I was dumb enough to let move in my house. Wasn't no time for PlayBoy Clubin or the money to pay for it after those women took me to a level of broke I had never imagined.Coyote wrote:The Playboy Club opened on May 18, 1984 and closed in April of 1988.
Greg S wrote:My understanding is that it was bought by Farm Credit.
Greg
Omaha_Gabe wrote:Wrecking ball has arrived!
Before the Playboy era it was home to Smugglers Inn. No telling how many traveling salesmen got some professional action there. Many lawyers hooked up with hot young high school teachers there. Many hot young high school girls hooked up with touring rock bands there. Hope they brought their hazmat gear....MadMartin8 wrote:Omaha_Gabe wrote:Wrecking ball has arrived!
Noooo! I must protest to save this historic structure. What other building in Omaha can claim such a storied history with Playboy?
RIP you historic structure you.Omaha_Gabe wrote:
The hotel was in an awkward location. It made a ton of money from the disco when Millard was still isolated from the rest of the city's restaurants, and like lots of other franchisees, took the money out instead of reinvesting. The disco craze ended and the isolation did as well. They doubled down on sex and became a Playboy club. The sleaze didnt sell and the services they could offer couldn't stay up with the competition.Carrie Palmer wrote:A lesson for their peers