The Holiday Inn on Dupont Blvd in Dover converted to magnetic strip keys in 1991. That key is RARE!
Edited to add:
Just kidding! People do collect a lot of things though -- there seems to be a big market for old Las Vegas casino chips....Plus, I had to seize the opportunity to say, "RARE!"
Actually, when I was a teenager (late 70's/early 80's) ... it was a fairly popular practice in our school to swipe your hotel room keys as a momento of your road trip. Hotels started charging a $5 deposit because so many people wouldn't return their keys.
My buddies and I had probably collected over 50 different hotel keys for places in Ocean City, MD and Virgina Beach. In the off season, many of the smaller motels would either close up, or have just 1 or 2 guests staying there and no night clerk on duty. You could easily go 'borrow' an empty room somewhere after the night clubs shut down.
The hotels started rotating their doorknobs every few months to change the locks around, so I've got a few good 'druken stories' about us stumbling around motels at 2:30 am trying to see which rooms were vacant or which key fit a doorlock. We even had to do a few 'quick bailouts" on several occassions ... once in particular was when one of our "newly found female friends" decided to try and call for room service.
Ohhh, to be a teenager again. Good times, good times!
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<< <i>What's worse, him buying that, or you searching out the fact that he bought it? LOL How does one even stumble upon that item Matt? >>
Tonya stumbled across it while searching for "Dover" coloring books for the kids.
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Edited to add:
Just kidding!
People do collect a lot of things though -- there seems to be a big market for old Las Vegas casino chips....Plus, I had to seize the opportunity to say, "RARE!"
Doug
hi matt - enjoy delaware.
My buddies and I had probably collected over 50 different hotel keys for places in Ocean City, MD and Virgina Beach. In the off season, many of the smaller motels would either close up, or have just 1 or 2 guests staying there and no night clerk on duty. You could easily go 'borrow' an empty room somewhere after the night clubs shut down.
The hotels started rotating their doorknobs every few months to change the locks around, so I've got a few good 'druken stories' about us stumbling around motels at 2:30 am trying to see which rooms were vacant or which key fit a doorlock. We even had to do a few 'quick bailouts" on several occassions ... once in particular was when one of our "newly found female friends" decided to try and call for room service.
Ohhh, to be a teenager again. Good times, good times!