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Kissimmee,
Florida -- 2323
U.S. 192 East |
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A
large two story facility, Kissimmee opened in 1972 with 200 rooms.
Built in the cost-saving Mansard style, its guest buildings featured
abbreviated balconies and patios. |
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| Photograph
1998: Courtesy of Wilbur Smith |
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| Photographs
2000, 2003, & 2005 |
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The
complex was sited about as far away from Walt Disney World
and the other area attractions as it could to still have been
listed as an Orlando/Disney location! Nonetheless it once
featured visibility from the Florida Turnpike and was well
situated immediately at an interchange with the limited access
toll highway
At
some point after 1985 its Restaurant was converted into a
Country
Kitchen then endured hosting a succession of failed local
and ethnic eateries.
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| Photographs
June 24, 2006 |
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HoJo's
No Mo
A friendly, if not burley, desk clerk told me that the Kissimmee
Lodge had given up the Howard Johnson name during the first quarter
of 2006--its owners had become fed up with Cendant. Ironically painting
its Mansard Lobby a shade of Orange, the long-time HoJo's was calling
itself the East
Palm Resort (a photogallery on its website still showed the
property wearing the HJ name). |
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