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Avalon Motel

December 6th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

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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.

  1. FR Pettus
    June 17th, 2010 at 18:06 | #1

    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”…