Lorraine Motel
Memphis TN
2011

https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/news/posts/the-famous-lorraine-motel


The Lorraine Motel still stands on Mulberry Street. It is instantly recognizable, and appears as though suspended in another time. Two large cars—a white 1959 Dodge Royal with lime green fins and a white 1968 Cadillac—are parked in front of the motel, and the aqua doors to the rooms are numbered with a sparse font.

These cars are replicas of the ones parked at the Lorraine Motel the night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. The National Civil Rights Museum is located at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Dodge Custom Royal is an automobile which was produced by Dodge in the United States for the 1955 through 1959 model years. In each of these years the Custom Royal was the top trim level of the Dodge line, above the mid level Dodge Royal and the base level Dodge Coronet. 2-Door Hardtop, 4-Door Hardtop and Convertible models were marketed under the name "Dodge Custom Royal Lancer".