Just one left? I don't think so!
Posted on 08/23/2016 7:32:32 PM PDT by RightGeek
BANGOR, Maine — The closing of one of the last two Howard Johnson restaurants in a couple of weeks will mark the end of its fried clam strips, ice cream and other menu staples that nourished baby boomers and leave the once-proud restaurant chain teetering on the brink of extinction.
The slice of roadside Americana will no longer be served up in Bangor after Sept. 6.
For waitress Kathe Jewett, it's the only job she's held since starting work when the restaurant opened in 1966.
"It's bittersweet, but it's nothing to be sad about," the 68-year-old Jewett insisted Tuesday during a break from serving customers. "I've been here for 50 years — and it's time."
The closing will leave only one Howard Johnson restaurant, in Lake George, New York.
[More nostalgia and pictures at the link]
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I’ll take E.V.O.O. for 500, Alex, and pass on the keffiyeh.
Ending forever my career as a Fried Clam Lover.
Sigh ...
Stuckey sold out to the Pet Milk folks, who with their fancy business degrees ran it into the ground. His son bought the remnants back in the mid-1980s and has done a slow but steady job of re-building the chain.
HoJo’s used to have amazing maple nut ice cream..
To add to the list:
EJ Korvette
Increasingly sadder...
Mom loves the fried clams and still compares all to them.
I just miss the fact they were such a mainstay.
Stuckeys used to be everywhere in the southeast but I haven’t seen one in years. I was never a fan of the pecan log.
Ma and I went there for the fish & fries special as well, and it was all you can eat. Yum!
Just one left? I don't think so!
You know you are getting ancient when you remember these at darn near every exit on the then new interstate system.
My first job. Busboy. After a weekend, I’d be covered in maple syrup. I opulent eat pancakes for almost a decade.
Proud to say I’m back!
It’s the restaurants that are vanishing in the USA. Still plenty of hotels including the one in Bangor in the article.
Don't despair, we have thousands of places to get great fried clams....freshly dug.
Trips to Florida from the Midwest always involved a Hojo’s and Stuckey’s pecan rolls in the late 60’s for me. Holiday Inn’s with swimming pools were also an indulgence. Dang. I’m old!
God help me, I remember that as a child.
I can remember as a kid going to one in St. Louis Missouri on N. Lindbergh Blvd, Creve Coeur, Missouri They had all you can eat fried chicken on Monday evenings. It was really quite a great place to go until it closed. It then became a four-star restaurant named Wades. The building still stands but has been empty for more than 10 years.
Patel....need to know anymore...(keepers of the house) ...I know many of these persons from playing cricket with them in Florida ...I was one of two Americans that played....I met only 1 or two that I would break bread with...the rest can go F__k themselves.
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