Mary Kate Leming/The Coastal Star
One of the few remaining small motels in Boca Raton built in the late 1950s has finally succumbed to progress as bulldozers and demolition crews have cleared the site of what had been the Boca Motel and Efficiencies. Located at 910 E. Palmetto Park Road, not far from where the landmark La Vieille Maison restaurant once stood, the motel with many incarnations managed to survive building booms and recessions before demolition started last month. Originally opened as the Uncle Dudley Motel and later known as the Wavecrest Apartment Motel, the building was typical of the mid-century motels that dotted South Florida decades ago, said Susan Gillis, curator at the Boca Raton Historical Society.
"I’m sorry to see it go because it was a little part of old Boca and it represented one of the last of the mid-century motels still remaining," she said.
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