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These
are really fresh
... Assistant
Manager Edwin Gilpin restocks the Baldwin Park resale
freezer with HJ's good, good food delivered from our
Los Angeles distribution center.
Baldwin
Park's Restaurant was in the group of first Howard
Johnson's to open in the Golden State. Opening its
doors to patrons on December 3, 1965, it beat its
adjacent Motor Lodge into business by more than a
year.
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January 1, 2005: Phil Edwards |
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Above:
A glimpse through unbroken glass showed that the Restaurant's
Dairy Bar was intact and suggested that the rest of the
site's interior was likely all original.
Below:
The overflow dining room wing which may have been called
the Lamplighter Room featured an exterior decorative concreted
block wall and typical low HoJo's stone wall composed of
"Arizona cactus stone." |
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Based
on the building's condition and few modifications, the restaurant
was not converted into a Big Boy or other brand after it
ceased carrying the Howard Johnson name. By
2004 the Restaurant had been closed, boarded up, and fenced
off as if awaiting demolition. |
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January 1, 2005: Phil Edwards |
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