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Ghost Sign

This ghost sign with multiple layers of paint reads "Downtowner Motel" and "Nackard Inn". The building(s) is a few blocks from Route 66 in downtown Flagstaff, AZ, and now operates as a youth hotel and private apartments.

The Downtowner Motel was created by K.J. Nackard in 1919 to provide lodging near the route of the Old Trails Highway through Flagstaff. Nackard bought and improved two existing buildings and named them the Nackard Hotel. He also built his home on the site. The first building, of what was then called the Nackard Hotel, was the Ramey Building, which was built in 1900 and used as a brothel. The second building was called the Dutch Annie Building and was owned by Annie Marie Sutter until she was murdered in 1916. In the 1930s, once Route 66 had been firmly established, Nackard remodeled his home and made it part of his new Auto Inn, which catered to the automobile traffic along the route.

Khatter Joseph Nackard (K.J.) was born in 1875 in a tiny village in the mountains near Beirut, Lebanon. At age 13, he quit school to learn the shoemaker’s trade. At 25, after struggling and saving while working in various places in the Middle East and Europe, he crossed the ocean in search of better opportunities. He became a pushcart peddler in New York. Gradually, he moved west in search of greener pastures. He ended up in Salt Lake City in 1905, where he became a citizen. Soon afterward, he returned to his tiny village in Lebanon, where he married Marie Michael. The couple set out on a 10,000-mile journey, settling briefly in various places. Finally, in 1912, they settled down in Flagstaff.

See photo of the Downtowner Motel tower sign: www.flickr.com/photos/riverbear97103/5923864777/in/set-72...

Taken on: May 12, 2011

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