Old Camelot Hotel

[baby83]

Can anyone tell me why the old Camelot hotel is going to waste???  It is such a neat building.  I hate to see it go to waste.  Can anyone tell me why it shut down in the first place? I think it needs to be restored and turned into somethin. Does anyone else agree?

[TUalum0982]

quote:Originally posted by baby83

Can anyone tell me why the old Camelot hotel is going to waste???  It is such a neat building.  I hate to see it go to waste.  Can anyone tell me why it shut down in the first place? I think it needs to be restored and turned into somethin. Does anyone else agree?

It is going to be fully restored and renovated into the 500th Quiktrip!! I wasnt alive in the generation when Camelot was "the place" but the area surrounding it now isnt the best.  It has been closed as long as I can remember.  (I am 25).  The different articles I have read simply say that it had a swift decline in business and closed its doors in the 1980's.  Sad to see it go, but change isnt always bad!

[GG]

I worked at the Camelot as a bus boy in the mid 1960's it was a show place and the place to be back then.  

It changed ownership several times over the years and they just did not keep the property up.   It is a same, it was a landmark with it's unique architectural design.

[joebaloney]

Here's some good info on the Camelot if you're curious about its history.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/tm/tm120.html

[cannon_fodder]

The notion that a hotel generically modeled like a castle could be "the place" just seems odd to be.  Crazy 1960s.