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Photograph March 29, 2003
 
 
Photograph courtesy of Bob Venditti
 
 
Photograph courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
 
Photographs March 29, 2003
 
Like many Motor Lodges, Gainesville-Downtown's site allowed for expansion. A more modern interior corridor 31 unit was added during the late 1960s or early '70s (pictured above).
 
 
 
 
 
Postcard circa 1970s
Ultra-modernity for the common man. Circa 1960s Howard Johnson's were high-style!
 
 
By the 1970s, Gainesville-Downtown had received modest updating. Note the unusual for the time use of an African American family enjoying HoJo's hospitality.
Brochure circa 1970s: Courtesy of Dan Donahue
 
 
 
 
Postcard circa 1960s: Courtesy of Tim & Tom Bernert (detail)

The Gainesville-Downtown's Restaurant was a classic 1960s Nims derivative Its overflow dining area or Lamplighter Room featured floor to ceiling windows affording diners an expansive view of the well-tended Motor Lodge grounds and swimming pool area.

Demolished in the 1980s, a Checkers double drive through came to occupy its site.
 
 
Brochure circa 1970s: Courtesy of Dan Donahue
 
 
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