Town & Country Motel Sign

Chain of Rocks Rd, Edwardsville, IL.
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East < GO > West

This very interesting sign is gone, reportedly stolen in 2019 ! It was located on the right side of the road shortly after you get on Chain of Rocks Rd. and just east of the building at 5335 . The Town & Country Motel was originally called the Chain of Rocks Tourist Camp and was built by Otto Bauman around 1935.

GPS: 38.760072, -90.013698

The sign showed that it had a prior life with a Kaiser-Frazer dealership. Like the motel, the Kaiser-Frazer line of automobiles is long gone, except for the Jeep which lives on.

A bit of the old MOTEL neon tubing was still clinging to the sign in 2016.

This is private property and there is not a real good place to pull over. The sign was still looking about the same when we went by in May 2018.

Photo(s): 2016