The Hotel-Motel Bar & Grill

October, 1988

The Hotel-Motel Bar & GrillPlayboy'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 tele...