The original Mickey Mantle’s Holiday Inn contained 53 guest rooms. The $500,000 motor lodge offered a slew of amenities including a “pleasure-eating” restaurant, a meeting room for 150 to 175 people, and a $15,000, 55,000-gallon swimming pool.
Also in the plan was an intimate lounge known as the Dugout Club. This became Joplin’s first sports bar. The lounge offered soft lighting, small round tables, and the walls were lined with sports memorabilia. The sports theme was further enhanced with some outstanding artifacts from Mickey Mantle himself.
Closed and demolished in the 80s.
