If you’re familiar with Hubbell Avenue heading out of Des Moines, the old, non-chain motels there are a reminder of pre-interstate times, when it was a primary way in and out of town. Three motels were clustered at the intersection of Hubbell and Broadway, where US 6 used to turn east and US 65 continued northeast.
Last fall, one of those motels, the Archer, was torn down. The sports editor of the Monticello Express remembers the place fondly.