The Hotel-Motel Bar & Grill

October, 1988

Playboy's College Fiction Contest WinnerUniversity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AlabamaProprietor: Izard McAdoo, high school English teacher, divorced, weekend father, albino, heir to modest fruit-spread fortune. Chief patrons: Elizabeth, 12, Ellen, 10, Ted, 33.The spirit of the Hotel-Motel Bar & Grill was derived from Iz's lifelong affection for the strangeness of hotels and motels. The quilted bedspreads, the shag carpets, the garbage cans with plastic liners and the television sets bolted onto fib...

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