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| Postcard circa 1970s: Kummerlowe Archive |
Mill
Valley, California
-- 160
Shoreline Highway AKA Sausalito or San Francisco-North |
Marking
a shift in Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge and Restaurant design at
the end of the 1960s, Mill Valley was built entirely in the Mansard-style.
Moreover all of the buildings featured flat roofs and employed a
pseudo-mission facade highlighted with a collection of archways.
Although as a Mansard the overall complex is perhaps less visually
appealing, it offered larger and more flexible public space for
gatherings and meetings allowing the property to be more profitable
and long lived. Note that its roof tiles are believed not to have
been standard orange, but more of a terra cotta! |
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| Image © Microsoft Corp |
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| Photos February 2005: Courtesy of Phil Edwards |
Lasting
as a Howard Johnson Motor Lodge until 1994, the property was at
some point converted into a Holiday
Inn Express  .
Meanwhile the Howard Johnson's Restaurant space was completely
remade into an Italian eatery called Frantoio
which specializes in domestic olive oil production. |
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| Photos November 2007: Courtesy of Connor Hochleutner |
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