It sounds like Howard Johnson's was ahead of its time (and Holiday Inn) with its motel business. Perhaps they should have concentrated on that end of the business. Oh, and they could have had restaurants in the motels perhaps specializing in breakfasts.
1 posted on
06/03/2022 12:53:29 PM PDT by
PJ-Comix
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2 posted on
06/03/2022 12:55:11 PM PDT by
PJ-Comix
(The Mask Has Become a Liberal Virtue Signal)
3 posted on
06/03/2022 12:59:20 PM PDT by
llevrok
(Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
To: dfwgator
(Howard Johnson’s)
I remember when they had 1 flavor of ice cream 🍨🍦
4 posted on
06/03/2022 1:00:29 PM PDT by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: PJ-Comix
Had a HoJos at the end of our street as a kid. My friends and I felt like grown-ups when we could go there ourselves to buy a milkshake or french-fries with our paper-route or lawn-cutting money.
5 posted on
06/03/2022 1:01:43 PM PDT by
PGR88
To: PJ-Comix
I remember his humble beginnings...
6 posted on
06/03/2022 1:01:44 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: PJ-Comix
Made me a lifelong fan of fried clams.
8 posted on
06/03/2022 1:03:59 PM PDT by
Fester Chugabrew
("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
To: PJ-Comix
They had the best hot dogs.
9 posted on
06/03/2022 1:04:45 PM PDT by
gattaca
To: PJ-Comix
Certainly a tangent; but, Julia Child was an OSS agent during WWII.
10 posted on
06/03/2022 1:06:46 PM PDT by
GingisK
To: PJ-Comix
fried clams, chicken croquettes, milk shakes. that was really living!
13 posted on
06/03/2022 1:10:10 PM PDT by
avital2
To: PJ-Comix
Howard Johnson restaurants were located along the old highways.
IMP, the interstates led to their demise.
To: PJ-Comix
I remember the first time I traveled on the road by myself, I stopped at Howard Johnson’s in Springfield, Illinois and had the franks and beans and a small loaf of dark rye bread. Little did I know that Jacques Pepin had something to do with that. My college pals and I used to go in and plunder their all-you-can-eat clams on Fridays. In graduate school I would go in and order ice cream and coffee and the waitress would keep refillling the coffee and I would sit and smoke cigarettes and do my homework for a couple of hours and they didn’t mind. I think the last time I found a HoJo to stop at was over a quarter-century ago in Kentucky.
To: PJ-Comix
Between Hojo's and drivein movies kids nowadays have no idea how enjoyable this country used to be
21 posted on
06/03/2022 1:26:50 PM PDT by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: PJ-Comix
22 posted on
06/03/2022 1:28:01 PM PDT by
mylife
(It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
To: PJ-Comix
37 posted on
06/03/2022 1:53:12 PM PDT by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
To: PJ-Comix
Jaques was a yankee?
45 posted on
06/03/2022 3:28:01 PM PDT by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: PJ-Comix
By the 70s-80s they started to feel outdated?
48 posted on
06/03/2022 3:39:38 PM PDT by
Leep
(Don't say God.)
To: PJ-Comix
We loved Howard Johnson’s!
Friendly’s also disappearing.
The only places one can get fried clam strips.
Which means, basically we cannot get them anymore!
51 posted on
06/03/2022 6:59:25 PM PDT by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
To: PJ-Comix
My first radio job in Nashua, NH. There was a HoJo “just across the way” from the station. Lots of times we would sneak out for pecan pie with peach ice cream. Sounds weird, but it was great. Sometimes clams, too.
To: PJ-Comix
Ho Jo’s orange freeze was the bomb on a hot day!
60 posted on
06/04/2022 12:08:14 PM PDT by
Poser
(Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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