Old Saybrook, Connecticut
 -- 100 Essex Road
 

Records indicate that the Old Saybrook Restaurant was opened in 1965 and not joined by its adjacent Motor Lodge until 1974.

The Motor Lodge featured a small Mansard Lobby next to the older Nims-type Restaurant, and along with its all-weather indoor swimming pool offered 124 rooms in its 3 floors. It remained a Howard Johnson's until 1990.
Brochure circa 1970s: Courtesy of Dan Donahue
 
 
Ad card circa 2000s
 
 
 
 
 
After it lost the Howard Johnson name, the Old Saybrook Motor Lodge suffered from remodeling which rendered it unappealing and un-HoJo like in appearance.
 
Photographs courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Like the Motor Lodge, the good looks of the Restaurant were lost during remodelings. Note that one of the original decorative concrete block "wing" walls was still evident.