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Postcard
circa 1960s: Kummerlowe |
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Savannah-Downtown
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W Boundary St. |
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The
classic circa 1964 Savannah-Downtown Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge
came to be the last best Orange Roofed example of mid-20th century
roadside hospitality in the state of Georgia. It featured exemplary
moderne design and architecture! It was unfortunately sold in 2014
to the Savannah
College of Art and Design
(SCAD), which sadly will demolish the largely intact Gate Lodge
and its adjacent Motor Lodge guest wings.
Reported
in a Savannah
Now Savannah Morning News
article in october of 2018, SCAD argued in its redevelopment scheme
that the more than 50 year old Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge is insignificant
while the nearby Thunderbird
Motel
somehow is (?). While I'm happy for the Thunderbird (which like
the HoJo's was not local but part of a chain) to survive and perhaps
thrive with its cool sign, its design is not special and not indicative
of any mid-20th century design innovation, nor does it have special
historical significance for either the hospitality industry in general
or for Savannah, Georgia in particular.
The
reality of the situation is that SCAD wants to raze the site to
build something else that it deems will have more economic usefulness.
It is ridiculous to say that a mostly intact Howard Johnson's Motor
Lodge does not have historical significance because it was part
of a chain and others were built of the same style in the state
of Georgia--find another example as intact as Savannah-Downtown,
and study the impact that Motor Lodges of its type had upon the
hospitality industry and then argue to minimize its significance!
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Postcard
postmarked 1989: Kummerlowe |
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Photographs
March 2003: Kummerlowe |
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Photographs
September 2002: Phil Edwards |
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Marchn 2003: Phil Edwards |
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2003: Bob Venditti |
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Photographs
March 2003: Kummerlowe |
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September 2002: Phil Edwards |
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Photographs
March 2003: Kummerlowe |
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Photograph
September 2002: Phil Edwards |
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Photographs
2003: Bob Venditti |
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March 2003: Kummerlowe |
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