Family holiday photo with large jackrabbit June 1969

This looks like a classic 1970s American roadside snapshot, probably taken during a family road trip.
The group is standing outside a motel, with part of the motel sign visible behind them. The architecture of flat-roofed white buildings with green trim, gravel ground, and the big metal post, fits Southwestern U.S. desert towns, such as Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, or West Texas. The dry ground and sparse vegetation also suggest an arid region.
Holbrook had multiple motels in the 1960sโ80s with white stucco walls and green trim and was known for animal statues outside motels and trading posts to draw in tourists heading to the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest so this is the most likely location.
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