Located in Johnson Creek, WI, The Gobbler was a 1960s motel and supper club. Upon further review of the website www.lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html one can see that this place was something straight out of the Brady Bunch architecturally. The architect, Helmut Ajango clearly had a thing for shag carpeting and loud colors. In its many reincarnations, The Gobbler was a roadside diner and a Mexican restaurant before it closed for good in 2002. Peeking in the windows of the place, it's not in bad condition at all. In fact you could make a case for it to be the launch pad for a cool new software company purely based off the hip/vintage Googie-style architecture.
The Gobbler Supper Club. Possibly my favourite place that I've never been, The Gobbler Motel and Supper Club was a roadside stop b...
Imagine the pitch to the investors: "It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait - here's the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We'll bill it as a romantic getaway - and call it The Gobbler!" www.lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html
Kellie Pickler, Maddie & Tae and Jana Kramer have played the Gobbler Theater, first built as the kitschy Gobbler Supper Club in 1969.
"The Place That Made Turkeys Famous 365 Days a Year..." When You Enter The Lobby, It's a Whole New World. Passion Pit- Round Bed....
Cover photo: Gobbler Supper Club Postcard, C. 1970s. Public Domain. Back in the mid-1960s, local Johnson Creek turkey tycoon Clarence Hartwig was looking to get out of the poultry business.
Created from a scan of possibly the only existing napkin from The Gobbler Motel and Supper Club in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. The motel has long since burned to the ground and the shuttered restaurant still stands.
Lot of Vintage swizzle sticks, Hartwig's Gobbler Supper Club and Motel Plus 2 extra If you would like more pictures or have any questions or would like more pictures, please message me!
The Gobbler motel and supper club, located on I-94 just outside of Madison, Wisconsin. Here's a site with interesting/amusing background on it: www.lileks.com/institute/motel/
Up for grabs is this very rare set of 5 vintage 1970s Hartwigs Gobbler Supper Club and Motel hurricane glasses..All 5 are in great shape. No issues
After an extensive renovation, the midcentury-modern architectural curiosity now operates as a theater for live music.
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Imagine the pitch to the investors: "It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait - here's the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We'll bill it as a romantic getaway - and call it The Gobbler!" www.lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html
Imagine the pitch to the investors: "It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait - here's the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We'll bill it as a romantic getaway - and call it The Gobbler!" www.lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html
The Grand Carport is mainly petrified wood and amethyst geodes. For more info on the splendor that is The Gobbler: www.lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html
When you drive by on I-94, you might think a spaceship landed. Across the way from the Supper Club, the Gobbler Motel had a bold, futuristic Googie architecture, which was a popular style in the late 1960s.
After nearly 15 years sitting empty, a Googie icon of the upper Midwest is reopening—and there's no shortage of purple vinyl and rotating bars. The
