NEVADA CLOWN MOTEL FOR SALE
TONOPAH, NEV. A clown-themed motel is for sale in rural Nevada, with the owner insisting the 600 clown figurines, mannequins and paintings, and his employees, get to stay.
Clown Motel owner Bob Perchetti, 79, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he hopes to sell the motel in Tonopah, about 400 kilometres northwest of Las Vegas, in a month, but he is insistent the clowns stay.
“I’m not going to let them change the clown motif,” he said. “That’s going to be part of the contract.”
The motel was built around 1985 by siblings Leona and LeRoy David, Perchetti said. The two thought it was the perfect place to house their small clown collection. Perchetti bought the motel in 1995. The motel got a boost in 2015 when it was featured on the TV show Ghost Adventures.
Perchetti said he’s already had more than seven offers to buy the building.