Morocco Motel
Known Name(s)
Morocco Motel
Address
1200 Moore St. Bristol, VA
Establishment Type(s)
Motel
Physical Status
Demolished
Description
The 1956 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map indicates that 1200 Moore Street is a two-story cinder block "Rest.Motel 2nd (colored) 6 units." It has a small two-story frame porch on the north elevation and sits across Moore/Oakview Streets from Douglas High School (colored), built 1921. The photo depicts the site today.
Detailed History
M/M Luther B. Pookrum listed as proprietors in 1957 issue. The address of the Morocco Motel in Green Book listings from 1954 - 1955 is 800 Spencer Street. That building is also demolished. Mrs. L.B. Pookrum, Jr., of the Morocco Motel in Bristol, VA, attended the second annual convention of the Nation-Wide Hotel Association (NHA), held in Detroit in November of 1955. (Source: "1955 Hotel Men of the Year, Afro-American, November 19, 1955, page A3.)
Due to the fact that the state line between Virginia and Tennessee runs though State Street on Bristol, some properties were listed under both Virginia and Tennessee in Green Book issues. The Morocco Motel at 1200 Moore was listed in the Virginia section in the 1956 through 1961 issues. It was listed in the Tennessee section in 1954, 1955, and 1957-67.
