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Heartbreak motel: Strange scenes, sad stories fill 133 rooms behind Lincoln adult store
- Peter Salter
- Apr 5, 2018
- Apr 5, 2018 Updated Jul 10, 2020
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Martin Bream looks for evidence of squatters in one of the many trashed rooms at the former Economy Lodge near Cornhusker Highway and Interstate 80.
ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
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The fire department was here first, the cops came after that and the building inspector would be on his way.
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Some guests lived at the Economy Lodge for years, but that changed last year when Doctor John's bought the property and closed the motel.
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Since it closed last year, the former Economy Lodge near the airport has become a target for transients.
ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
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In a room full of abandoned memories, Martin Bream examines one of the many photo albums left behind.
ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star file photo
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An artist rescues mannequin pieces from the former Economy Lodge near the airport after she heard they'd be thrown away. She plans to use them to make plaster casts, eventually producing ceramic body parts as artwork -- and as a statement about the objectification of women.
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Squatters have knocked holes through walls in several rooms at the former Economy Lodge, allowing them to double their living space.
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A homeless man has been helping clean the property.
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The former Economy Lodge was issued a fire-code violation and a city housing violation, in part because of the garbage scattered in its parking lots.
ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
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Martin Bream looks for evidence of squatters in one of the many trashed rooms at the former Economy Lodge near Cornhusker Highway and Interstate 80.
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- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
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- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
A homeless man has been helping clean the property.
- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
Since it closed last year, the former Economy Lodge near the airport has become a target for transients.
- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
The former Economy Lodge was issued a fire-code violation and a city housing violation, in part because of the garbage scattered in its parking lots.
- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
Squatters have knocked holes through walls in several rooms at the former Economy Lodge, allowing them to double their living space.
- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
In a room full of abandoned memories, Martin Bream examines one of the many photo albums left behind.
- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star file photo
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