It always ends
            too soon. By 2001, the Restaurant had closed. Shorn of its Beacon,
            its roof painted, and its interior gutted, there isn't likely
            much left to remind us of its Happy Days as a 
            Howard Johnson's. | 
         
        
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             Photographs courtesy
            of Tim & Tom Bernert 1999 | 
         
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