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  Image courtesy of Georgia State University's William Russell Pullen Library
 

 Atlanta-Northeast, Georgia

 Traveling north on the new I-85 in the early 1960s, this second Atlanta area Howard Johnson's would have come prominently into view with both its orange roofs glistening day and night beckoning weary road warriors to exit and to be rest assured of reliable quality hospitality!

But by 2002 the view headed north on I-85 is quite different.
Alas the view below, as Phil notes, is from nearly the same vantage point as the archived image above. Furthermore Phil adds, "the road level is now much higher. The restaurant would have been straight ahead, but several feet lower"
 
 
 

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