Brochure circa 1970s: Dan Donahue
 
Tucson, Arizona -- 1025 E Benson Hwy

The Tucson Motor Lodge/Restaurant complex was the first to open along Arizona's Highways. With Howard Johnson's expanding rapidly West during the end of the 1960s, Tucson opened in the Fall of 1969. It featured a traditional layout that included an A-frame Gate Lodge. Unfortunately its Gate Lodge was demolished and replaced with a "Pueblo-looking" lobby building.

The former Motor Lodge survived as a Howard Johnson well into the 1990s but was subsequently converted into a Quality Inn.

 
Postcard postmarked March 1973: Kummerlowe
 
 
Photographs November 2004: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photograph May 2004: Phil Edwards
 

The "Western" style Restaurant with its centrally mounted spire cupola was converted into a JB's. But with JB's ownership changes and bankruptcies by 2004 it had become the unbranded Country Folks Restaurant.

 
Photographs November 2004: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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