10/5/2025 - Saga Motel (Route 66) in Flagstaff, Arizona

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When my dad and I were going out to dinner this was a motel that we passed by on Route 66.

The Saga Motel, at 820 West Highway 66 opened in August of 1961 and was operated by Barabara and Ray Larkey.  The 29-unit motel was later owned by Edward J. Canepa, a Flagstaff civic leader who died in 1973.  It is now the Saga Budge Host Inn, and the beautiful blinking blue neon name on the facade remains.

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