Amazingly
recognizable from the outside, the Nims derived Restaurant building
retained many familiar features such as its stone facing and garden
wall, Porcelain Enamel roof tiles, name banner, decorative concrete
block wings, and Trapezoid sign! The
Restaurant prospered as a Howard Johnson's until at least just
past the middle 1980s. During the 1990s it had been converted
into an eatery called the Pie Plate and by the early 2000s had
been transformed into the Vernon Diner. Like
many Howard Johnson's complexes, Vernon's Restaurant was opened
prior to its adjacent Motor Lodge. The Restaurant first appeared
in a HoJo's 1964 directory and the Motor Lodge not until a 1968
edition. |
