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Photographs courtesy
of Phil Edwards November, 2004 |
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Sun City,
Arizona
10243 W Grand Ave |
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A suburb of Phoenix,
Sun City had the first stand-alone Howard Johnson's in Arizona
when it opened in about 1966. It remained a HoJo's Restaurant
into the late 1970s.
Coco's was a chain created
from Marriott's Big Boy Restaurants in the western part of the
United States. When Marriott got out of the family restaurant
business in the early 1990s it sold its holding to an investment
group that created a couple of concepts that utilized the old
buildings. Click Here for a link to see a couple
of Coco's is the Los Angeles area.
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Phil Edwards pointed
out that the Restaurant had been greatly altered and the most
recognizable part was in the shot above that shows where the
Dairy Bar once was situated. |
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At some point after it
was a Howard Johnson's, the old Nims type building was added
on to, and a nearly wrap-around Mansard was added. |
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