Jamaica Motel, Las Vegas, Bella Ladies V-Neck Tee

Description

The Jamaica Motel was a modest but well-known roadside motor court situated at 3745 South Las Vegas Boulevard, along the famed Strip just south of Tropicana Avenue. Opened in the early 1960s, it emerged during an era when dozens of small, neon-lit motels catered to travelers and budget-conscious visitors amidst Las Vegas’s burgeoning casino district. Designed for simplicity and convenience, the Jamaica Motel offered travelers clean, affordable lodging complete with features such as a restaurant and a heated swimming pool. Brochures and large-format postcards from the era boasted 100 spacious, artistically appointed rooms, Simmons Beautyrest mattresses, and year-round sunshine in the heart of the Strip. Its distinctive neon signage—sometimes styled as twin vertical prongs—became a familiar visual marker on the Strip, featuring the name “Jamaica Motel” often paired with “Restaurant” and “Vacancy” indicators. Despite its unassuming nature, the motel endured for approximately three decades, serving as a reliable stay for drivers, families, and Las Vegas regulars who valued straightforward hospitality over frills. By the early 1990s, however, shifting land use and the rise of mega-resorts rendered such motels obsolete. In 1991, the Jamaica Motel was demolished, closing its chapter on the Strip. Its grounds were redeveloped, making way first for the Hawaiian Market, and later for the towering Polo Towers condominium complex that now dominates the site. Today, the Jamaica Motel survives in vintage postcards, matchbooks, neon photographs, and, of course, our gorgeous Jamaica Motel t-shirt—all tokens of a bygone era when the Strip was dotted with motor courts and travelers experienced Las Vegas on a more modest, intimate scale.