Beach Park Motel, Wollongong

The Beach Park Motel in Wollongong sits on a street within walking distance of the Illawarra foreshore, the building two-storey brick with the room doors opening onto continuous balcony walkways at each floor. The brick is pale, the trim painted in a coastal teal along the eaves and the balustrade. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a 1970s sans-serif on a backlit panel. The carpark is empty in the late evening. A row of small front gardens between the carpark and the road carries the standard beachside landscaping. The Pacific Ocean is a short walk away; the property name carried the proximity into the brand.

The Beach Park Motel Wollongong was photographed at 23:46 on 6 April 2018, on the south-Wollongong run of Hotel Motel 101. The project covered 101 traditional Australian motor inns across three sweeps out of Sydney in late March and early April 2018: south on the Hume and the Princes Highway corridor, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Wollongong's beachside motor-inn strip carried several traditional properties through the postwar decades, serving the steel-city working trade and the South Coast through traffic.