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Rack card circa 1980: Courtesy of Dan Donahue
 
Huntsville, Alabama -- 2524 Memorial Parkway
 
Huntsville was a classic Motor Lodge and Restaurant, and opened in 1965. It offered guests about 80 rooms along with traditional and standard Howard Johnson's features and amenities. Note that the location originally featured an a-frame Gate Lodge that was later demolished.
 
 
 
 
Photographs August, 2002: Courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
The location remained a Howard Johnson's until sometime during 1987. It was closed around the time that Prime Motor Inns Inc. introduced its prototype Park Square Inn in Hunstville (Prime owned the Howard Johnson name and had developed the new concept under the HoJo banner, but did not sufficiently back the innovative new lodging idea allowing Marriott to steal the day with its very similar Residence Inn brand).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rack card circa 1980: Courtesy of Dan Donahue
 
 
Facility frames a lushly landscaped outdoor swimming pool.
 
 
Photographs August, 2002: Courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
By Phil's 2002 visit the "lushly lanscaped" pool area had become overgrown.
 
 
 
 
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