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Image of Banyan Tree Motel St. Petersburg Florida was created in 2022. The motel was in a prime location for its hay days located next to the Florida tourist attraction Sunken Gardens. The motel was named for a huge banyan tree located in a park behind the Motel.

"The brown and frayed leaves fall on rust stained concrete. 
The cool April wind tries to hold that winter chill one last time, as the tar driveways heat up under barefoot children’s feet that cantor across an empty parking lot. That old desk clerk watches through smeared glass with one hand on his cane and the other stacking tourist brochures on a rotten wooden display. Sunken times, slouched floors, birds nesting. The leaves rest. The hotel’s abstention to that last limping step"  
Banyan Tree Motel, St. Petersburg, FL, 1966

All images signed by artist Daniel Newcomb.