Over the course of the last six decades, those regularly traveling along Route 26 in Maine have become familiar with a classic throwback motel as they pass through the small town of Woodstock.
It’s known as the Mollyockett Motel, a classic motor lodge is located in Bryant Pond, a village in Woodstock that’s been conservative broadcast icon Tucker Carlson’s famous Maine haunt for decades.
Carlson often does his eponymous podcast out of the western Maine town.
He has vacationed there for more than four decades, owns a rustic cabin on Christopher Lake, and in 2019 purchased a former town garage next to Whitman Memorial Library for $30,000, converting it into a private broadcasting studio.
Carlson has publicly referred to Bryant Pond as “his favorite place in the world” and has stated his intent to retire there permanently.
The Mollyockett, just down the road, will go up for auction July 22, according to i95Rocks.com.
“From the outside, the Mollyrockett looks like a time capsule,” says the outlet’s Joey Dionne. “The 20-room motel is a throwback to the days when motor lodges sprawled across the country.”
The Mollyockett was put up for sale three years ago by its owners, Tim and Frank Buck, who sold to a Utah man hoping to use the property as a retirement investment. It didn’t work out.
Attempts to sell the longstanding motel over the last year or so were unsuccessful and now it will head to the auction block.
The motel is currently in foreclosure.
Built in 1968, the 20-room Mollyockett can be expanded to 30 rooms.
An indoor pool added to the property in 1980 and then a restaurant and function room sometime around 2007.
Tucker Qatarlson has gone off the rails and is no longer a “conservative broadcast icon”. Sorry to hear about the demise of the motel, however.
One of my favorite landmarks when driving through that area.
The old school motels and resorts are great.
Hopefully someone gets it who wants to really make a special place.
This rag doesn’t even mention who Mollyocket was !?
“Molly Ockett (also “Mollyockett”, “Mollocket” and “Molly Occut”) (born c. 1740, Saco, Maine, died August 2, 1816, Andover, Maine), was a Pequawket Abenaki woman who lived in the regions of northern New Hampshire, Maine and central Quebec during colonial times. She was baptized and given the name Marie Agathe. This became “Mali Agat” when spoken in Abenaki, which sounded like “Molly Ockett” to English-speaking listeners.[1”
Wikipedia
I was a big fan of Carlson before he snapped.Whatever that saying is about perfect being the enemy of good seems to ring true for former Trump supporters who now abandon Trump for singular reasons without understanding there is no one else any better.
Had the pleasure of staying there wth our kids one winter. They enjoyed the heated pool while it was snowing outside.
I once thought maybe Tucker would inherit Rush Limbaugh’s chair . I was wrong .
Tucker seems to have gone somewhere over to the dark side , but where and how , I know not .
I kinda miss watching his Fox show , but refuse to pay to visit his own show / blog / site .
I wish him well , but pay little attention to him these days .
Maybe some Pakistanis or India Indians will buy the motel and let it run down .
Put a convenience store in one of the rooms . Sell live bait . Rent videos . Do the 3rd world typical bodega stuff .
Spoil it .
The problem is that it has the same economics as a farm stand, in a world where women now have jobs and a few children that a family have aren’t interested in working in the family business.
Back in 1968, housewife could run this as a side business, hiring teenagers to do cleaning and such during busy seasons, her teenagers other teenagers, but those economic times have changed.
You can’t make a living running this.
Hopefully the new owners put in an arcade toom next to the indoor pool
I read the comments and honestly don’t understand the nay sayers. The Mollyocket is a great location from 2 alpine ski areas and 2 or more XC ski centers. I was first attracted to this area for alpine but discovered so much more. I believe there’s plenty of commerce to engage in this location. Not everyone can purchase a season pass and own a second home. The fact that there’s an indoor pool and a restaurant is paramount. Best wishes to this endeavor. This part of Maine is wonderful year round.
Neocon pro-war Faux News “conservatives,” Israel-worshipping heretic Christians, and anti-Constitutional government fake patriots abound here, I am sad to see. Do we all hate Ron Paul, too? (We must think Thomas Massie is the devil and MTG is worse than any Marxo-fascist democrat, for that matter.) Carlson is true patriot, the type who loves his country and Constitution enough to criticize the current POTUS, who has betrayed the MAGA movement outright. Keep those little heads in the sand though, fakers. No wonder the demshevik psychos are taking over our state; conservatives here are too ossified, lazy, weak-minded, and scrambled (a la crazy, lying Mark Levin or limited hang-out loser Sean Hannity) to be real patriots or do our state any good.