Hotels & Motels

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BELT MOTEL
TRAVEL LODGE
BUDGET MOTOR INN

Photo 1: Originally, this was the Belt Motel
Photo 2: The motel was changed to Travel Lodge
Photo 3: 2006 photo - It is now called Budget Motor Inn
The building is located on the west side of the Belt Highway at top of hill north of Frederick Avenue
Budget Motor Inn can be seen on the far side of the Burger King sign

PONY EXPRESS MOTEL

Once a Best Western motel, this motel was destroyed, torn down, in Oct/Nov 2006 to make room for an upcoming strip mall/shopping center
It was located directly across the Belt Highway from where Burger King now stands
The Pony Express Resturant & Lounge is the furthest building up the hill. We stopped there for drinks on our wedding night, Sept 23, 1966
Photo #1 was donated by Dave Sietzen

The "Y" BBQ
&Motel

3510 North 71 Highway (North Belt Highway)
The "Y" BBQ & Roadhouse sat on the town's outskirts, the junction of North 169 and 71 Highways.
This is now one of the busiest intersections in the city and the area is really developing with a new shopping center, Lowes, Walmart, Sams Club, large movie complex, resturants and other retail businesses soon to be opening in 2005 & 2006
The resturant housed several slot machines and had 10 cabins in back, which were called, tourist courts. Many of the cabins are still standing today and are occupied by small businesses. On the south side, a filling station used to stand. The building burned down in 1939 or 1940.
Across the highway, where the Mo Highway Patrol now stands, was the Thames Stadium, ball field and race track. On the northeast corner, where St Joseph Tobacco now stands, was the Ogden Resturant.

ST FRANCIS HOTEL Located on the Northeast corner of 6th & Francis, it was torn down to be replaced with a Katz drugstore, later to become a Skaggs Drugstore, then finally into an office complex.

THE METROPOLE HOTEL One of the city's oldest hotels. It stood at the Northwest Corner of 3rd & Francis streets for many years.

HOTEL ROUBIDOUX

A photo of Hotel Robidoux before it was imploded in 1976. Many St. Joseph residents lived there year round. The Black Angus room was noted for it's fabulous steaks. They used to have great record hops put on by KKJO radio.
(We knocked the plaster off the ceiling below by stomping one night to the Mexican Hat Rock, so the record hop moved to the Eagles Lodge on 9th St.)
In 1978, Robidoux Center, a modern, multimillion dollar, 6 story office building replaced the hotel. American National Bank, & other businesses, etc now occupy the building.