THE GREAT WALGENKIMS

The Walgenkims

Young, Mercy, and Flora.

Young and Flora.

Flora, Young, and Sarah.

THE SLEEPY LAGOON MOTEL in BEAVER, UTAH. WE SPENT 1 NIGHT HERE IN 1967

When I find new comments or photographs of the motel, I will link to them or cite them.  So if you're back for a second look, be sure to check out the updates.  

Beaver, Utah

On Friday, December 18, 2014, Joe Walgenbach wrote

Yeah, me, Lorraine & Trent stopped at this hotel back in 2006 when we visited Uncle Bob [a few years] before he died. It was pretty run down. There were still a few ducks in the pond though. I think some of the rooms were in the process of being torn down when we went by there. Great pics. I think that old brick building across the street was still there too.

I answered him:

Well, the main office and a few of the rooms of the motel are definitely torn down, which is why at first I hesitated that this was the same motel.  The pond is unmistakable except for the leafless tree.  In that condition, the place looks more like the setting for an Edgar Allan Poe story.  Back in 1967 with Dad and family, I remember staying in a room that was closer to the main office.  And, yes, there still are a few ducks in that pond.  motel.  Good on him.  

UPDATE, Tuesday, January 18, 2022.  Jacob Barlow does a terrific job of grabbing up-close shots of the motel.  Good on him.  

Postcard of the Sleepy Lagoon Motel.  No date is given.

UPDATE, Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Ken over at his Flickr page has 3 good shots of the motel--here [this shot has extended comments and additional pics], here, and the night shot here.  I provide separate links because each photograph has a different set of comments that you should also read.  He's got a night shot of the motel that is absolutely rare.  Perhaps even better are his account of the dates of the motel.  He writes, 

This picture and the 2 after it show the different stages of great little motel that stood in Beaver, Utah since at least the early 1950s.

Sadly the office and front part of this motel caught fire in the Spring of 2005 and has been closed ever since.

This shot was taken in about 2002 when the motel was still in full operation.

Okay, this summer postcard of the Sleepy Lagoon Motel in Beaver, Utah is more in line with my picture of it from 1967.

This shot above and the one below show clearly how the Main Office to the motel is gone perhaps along with a couple of rooms.

Across the street from the Sleepy Lagoon Motel.   

This building stood across the road from the motel.  Such an iconic look that I could not pass it up.

I took these two shots parked in front of Cedar City, Utah Middle School.  The mountain peaks were much taller than either of these shots tell.

UPDATE, Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Clearly, I am not the only one with fond memories of this motel.