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The last Howard Johnson’s restaurant is for sale - How HoJo lost its mojo
economist.com ^
| Feb 16th 2017 | LAKE GEORGE, NEW YORK
Posted on 02/16/2017 8:07:30 AM PST by 11th_VA
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Great memories as a kid going there ...
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:07:30 AM PST
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
Remember Stucky’s? Loved those places too.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:12:02 AM PST
by
Dogbert41
(Jerusalem is the city of The Great King! Forgive my misspelling when on my tablet.)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:12:48 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: 11th_VA
You can probably buy fried clams as good as I used to buy at Howard Johnson’s. When I find out where I can buy them I’ll let everybody know.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:14:35 AM PST
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
To: 11th_VA
Loved the beans and franks....
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:14:51 AM PST
by
GSWarrior
To: 11th_VA
I think they started going downhill when Consumer Reports(?) showed on National TV that HoJo’s was cheating their customers with a ‘Large’ soft drink and ‘Small’ soft drink having the same amount, but served in different glasses that made it appear one was larger than the other................
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:15:13 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: 11th_VA
> Great memories as a kid going there ... <
Yes, indeed. Breakfast with Simple Simon.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:16:54 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
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To: Dogbert41
I remember getting a free log roll with each fillup, so on long trips I'd beg my dad to buy gas at Stuckey's.
They're still in business, btw.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:17:09 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:17:32 AM PST
by
11th_VA
(#notmyappealscourt)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:17:47 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:17:57 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: InterceptPoint
back when I was a young business traveler, I would go in there on all-you-can-eat fried clam night. If I eat that much fried food now, I am up all night — aging ain’t always fun.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:18:18 AM PST
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: 11th_VA
By the mid-seventies there was nobody insuring that bathrooms were kept clean across the chain.
My memories growing up were that whether you were in Little Rock or Denver, the food would be merely okay and the men’s room would be filthy.
The chain lacked uniform quality control.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:19:01 AM PST
by
MrEdd
(MrEdd)
To: Dogbert41
I used to get pecan logs at Stuckeys.
I think Howard Johnson was done when they started using HoJo. Sounded like an inner city hang out for whores.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:21:00 AM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: InterceptPoint
The last time I ate at Howard Johnsons, I got the fried clams.
I was sick for 3 days.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:22:27 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: 11th_VA
I loved HOJO’s fried clams when I was a kid. Every rode trip we ever took included at least one stop at a HOJO’s.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:23:52 AM PST
by
pgkdan
(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
To: Puppage
Love the nostalgia! Those prices are a hoot.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:24:01 AM PST
by
GnuThere
To: 11th_VA
As a kid, we’d help my friend’s older brother deliver his Sunday newspapers (he was 18, we were 11 and I learned later, he’d be hungover from partying the night before) , and he’d take us for pancakes at HoJo’s
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:24:18 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: 11th_VA
They never served fried clams. Clam strips, which almost sacrilege. The bellies are what make the fried clam a fried clam.
To: InterceptPoint
GFS stores have the clams you are looking for.
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posted on
02/16/2017 8:25:21 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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