The Trade Winds Motel

From the Spokesman-Review:

Once a fashionable motel, built when the country loved Tiki-style architecture, the Trade Winds in recent years became a rent-by-the-month apartment complex for Spokane’s hard-luck crowd.

Well, yes.  It has become, how should I say this ...... a shithole ..... but it's a shithole with amazing textures and colors to it.  In a different world, it should be brought back to its motor-lodge glory and made a hub of hipster coolness.  I suspect that's not going to happen, though.  Too many strikes against it.  Shame.  It's cool to look at so I'll enjoy it while I can.