Avalon Motel

1015 Fort Worth Avenue, about a block west of the Belmont. It was open as early as 1954, and was the site of at least one suspicious death, a parking lot murder, and an odd tenant who persisted in smashing thermostats.
I couldn’t find any evidence the Avalon hadn’t been razed, but Steve Bonner tells me the place is alive and well after some rehab work.
As a kid, we lived in the La Reunion projects off Ft.Wth Ave. I remember we saw the “chicken Shack” after it had burned to the ground. Stevens Park golf course wasn’t far from the lot used by the “shack”…