One Palatial HoJo's!
West Hartford certainly wasn't like the typical roadside Howard Johnson's that the American public was familiar with. If not for the Second World War interrupting HoJo's expansion, the chain might have taken a completely different course from the path that it eventually followed.

The Restaurant itself was opened in 1938 and had been licensed to Connecticut's hospitality mogul Irving Carter, and a partner Elliott Logan. Perhaps the Restaurant was purchased by the Company, for unlike Carter's other locations West Hartford was closed in 1986 shortly after the Howard Johnson Company was sold to Marriott. By the 2000s, West Hartford operated as a Chinese eatery called the Butterfly.