Thus, Good Enough Productions was born and we set off to take Los Angeles by storm with a new multi-sensory concept that would become Elsewhere at the Madcap Motel.Paige Solomon is chief executive and creative director of the Madcap Motel, an art installation in Los Angeles with a 1960s vibe. Instead of hiring outside production companies, I wanted to form my own team of expert writers, artists, creators, and fabricators under one umbrella. After the success of our first experiential venue, Dream Machine, in Brooklyn, New York in 2018, we wanted to build a bigger, better, and bolder entertainment experience. Madcap Motel was always supposed to be an immersive experience and concept motel. Originally, what was the Madcap Motel supposed to be? A concept motel or a regular one? The feeling of play and imagination in a world that doesn’t allow adults the opportunity to do that very often. We want guests to leave with a sense of wonder. Some of the rooms are more traditional motel rooms with a wacky twist, while others take motel-based objects albeit supersized, cloned, or in new terrains. Each guest goes on a journey, similar to our motelier, J.P. Our first motel room, #433, comes from our guiding principle of making each room 40% interactive, 30% weird, and 30% fun. He called the dimension: Elsewhere.” We’re so intrigued. He told us that behind the walls of room #433 was a hidden portal to another dimension. “Each postcard was signed by our long-lost grandfather. Like a gentle current, the writings pulled them through an extraordinary passageway, leading them into an unexplainable labyrinth of peculiar and magical happenings. Was it a portal, a dream, a glitch in space and time, or simply a state of mind? With every door opening to a galaxy of possibilities, Madcap Motel invites Angelenos and travelers alike to experience this fantastical attraction. Seeking explanations for the postcards and their accounts, the family headed to the motel, unshackled its rusted doors, and ventured inside. Miraculously, the postcards were all signed by JP Sando himself. In 2021, JP’s family began receiving peculiar postcards inviting them back to Madcap Motel to explore whimsical wonders and amusing adventures occurring within its walls. For several decades the motel sat abandoned. Sando shuttered the motel doors and vanished without a trace, leaving the property behind to his family. Sadly, as the economy of downtown shifted and the city’s development moved westward, the motel strained to stay in business. Sando, Madcap Motel in Downtown Los Angeles was the premier roadside destination for residents and tourists alike.

What happened to JP Sando? Was the mystery ever solved?Ĭompleted in 1926 by visionary motelier J.P. We got Paige Solomon, founder and creative director of the wildly popular Madcap Motel to give us the inside story.

Ever since one of our readers sent us photos of its interiors, we’ve been feeling curioser and curioser about this charmingly named Los Angeles attraction.

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