BroadCauseway
Brochure circa 1980s: Larry Passaro
 
 
Brochure circa 1980s: Dan Donahue
Miami-Broad Causeway
-- 12210 Biscayne Blvd (U.S. 1)
 

Like several other Florida Motor Lodges, Broad Causeway was purged from the ranks in 1999. Opened in early 1971, the modern hotel-like complex was built on a relatively small parcel of land offering guests the choice of 96 rooms in its five stories. Featuring a signature A-frame Gate Lodge, it is not clear without any vintage views where the Restaurant had been sited.

During 2000 the property became a Holiday Inn, but by May of 2006 had been converted yet again and was called the Best Western Windsor Inn.
 
Photo February 2004: Kummerlowe Archive
 
 
Downtown
 
Miami-Downtown Plaza
-- 200 S E 2nd Ave
 

Perhaps resembling the earlier built Lake Buena Vista Motor Lodge/hotel complex, Downtown Plaza or Convention Center was a standardized downtown high rise located in a prime spot that opened in the fall of 1975.

The 14 floor 256 room facility was a completely modern high rise hotel in the heart of downtown Miami's busy convention district.
David King Gleason: Over Miami, page 7
© 1990 Louisiana State University Press
 
 
Brochure June 1988: Dan Donahue
 
 
 
 
David King Gleason: Over Miami, © 1990 LSU Press. page 7 (detail)
 
 

Giving up the Howard Johnson name in 1993, the facility was first converted into a Holiday Inn. However with its coveted location, the site was extensively renovated in order to become a decidedly upscale Courtyard by Marriott.

Note in my poor looking-into-the-setting-sun through-the-windshield don't-try-this-whilst-driving shot to the right, that not only was the former HoJo's convenient for conventioneers, but also sported an excellent curb appeal view for motorists headed south through Miami on U. S Highway 1! The white arrow in the shot above shows the direction of my travel as I took the photo seen to the right.
Photo February 2004: Kummerlowe Archive
 
 
Image circa 2005: From hotel website
 
 
KeyBiscayne
 
USGS satellite image: © Microsoft Corporation
 
Key Biscayne, Florida -- 798 Crandon Blvd
 
Hardly a HoJo's -- the property at 798 Crandon adopted the Howard Johnson name in 1980 and no doubt paid its franchise fees, but it would have disappointed any guest who had expected a typical Motor Lodge. Its listing in HJ directories always came with the "no restaurant on premises" disclaimer! The non-standard location was eventually converted into condominiums.
 
 
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