Portland Observer, July 4, 1984 Page 3
METROPOLITAN
Why a heal pump
in summer
is anything hui hoi air.
Neighbors oppose
adult motel"
by Robert Lothian
The Eliot Neighborhood D e
velopment Association is taking
on the adults-only San Rafael Fan
tasy Motel in its continued fight to
rid lower Union Avenue o f
prostitution.
The m otel, at 109 N .E . San
Rafael St., has been a neighborhood
problem for years, said Michelann
O rtlo ff, chairwoman of the neigh
borhood
association.
Recent
changes at the motel have caused
local residents to become concerned
that it will attract prostitutes, drug
pushers and pimps and cause related
problems for the neighborhood, she
said.
Known for years as the Desert
Motel, its name was changed recen
tly to the San Rafael Adult Motel
and then changed again to the San
Rafael Fantasy M otel. Newspaper
ads appeared reading, “ fantasize
with your p laym ate,*' and a sign
directing traffic to the motel was in
stalled in a private yard on Williams
Ave.
O r tlo ff said that “ in and o u t”
tra ffic at the motel has increased
even though the neighborhood
association has campaigned for two
years to cut down on prostitution on
Union Ave.
"There are a lot of people calling
me, especially people who live
around there,” she said. “ It's the
kind of thing we want to discourage
in the neighborhood.”
Roger Anderson, the m otel’ s
manager, defended the recent
changes at a meeting at Unthank
Plaza June 25th. “ W e're doing a
good jo b o f cleaning the place up
and I think that's contributing to
the community. Were not there to
boost the prostitution business,'* he
said. Besides new carpets and paint,
he said, improvements include x-
rated television and waterbeds. One
room, with a Jacuzzi, a sauna and
mirrors over the bed, is rented at a
three-hour minimum for “ sort of a
health type deal,” he said.
Henderson said that C alvin N.
Rector, who leases the motel from
its owner, Richard F. Mannis, runs
sim ilar adults only motels in
Parkrose and on the Oregon coast.
“ A ll you are doing is inviting
blatant prostitution with the three-
hour rentals,” said Sgt. Ralph E.
Radner of the Portland Police vice
division. “ T h a t's what led to
the shutting down o f the Crown
M otel,” a center of prostitution on
Interstate Ave., he said. He advised
neighborhood residents that they
could picket the motel, petition the
city council and to take “ anv and all
concerns” to Commissioner Schwab.
One person in the audience
described broken bottles, fights and
loud tra ffic in the middle o f the
night, and children trying to peek in
the windows near an adults only
motel on S.E.Powell Blvd. " I f what
you’ve got brewing here is anything
like what we’ve got out on Powell,
I ’d say do something q u ic k ,” she
said.
Mannis, owner of the San Rafael
Motel, said he wanted to cooperate
with the neighborhood association.
As a gesture of good will, he said, he
had the name changed on the
W illiam s Ave. sign from the San
Rafael A dult M otel to the San
Rafael Fantasy M otel. “ We don't
want them, we don't like them and
we'll do anything we can to get rid
o f th e m ,” he said about the
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prostitutes.
Mannis said there was no illegal
activity going on at the motel, and
that if he found that the lessee was
condoning illegal activity, he would
pull the lease.
“ I would like you to come and sit
in my living room tonight and tell
me there’ s no illegal a c tiv ity ,”
replied a resident who lives near the
motel. He said he has stepped on
used hypodermic needles left in his
yard by motel patrons.
“ W e ’ ve heard this 'we s t u f f
before,” said another resident “ It's
‘ We* just as long as you can make
some money."
M annis
hinted
that
the
association was being unreasonable.
“ You are taking it upon yourselves
to disrupt and destroy a legitimate
business,” he told them.
O r tlo ff said the neighborhood
association will continue to pressure
Mannis and Rector to change the
motel’s orientation away from por
nography and prostitution toward a
business more compatible with the
neighborhood.
Sign on the corner of N.E. Rafael and Williams Avenue points to the
former Desert Motel, now an adult business and source of neighbor
hood controversy.
(Photo: Kris Altucher)
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