In theatre, the seedy motel space has been the location for two-hander performs this sort of as Same Time, Next Year (1975) and Bug (2006). Both were later on adapted as movies. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Wildwoods Shore motel district in New Jersey in its 2006 checklist of America's Most Endangered Historic Places and provided the Historic Route sixty six Motels from Illinois to California on its 2007 checklist.