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Brochure circa 1960: Kummerlowe
 

From the onset of the Interstate highway system in 1956, and well into the early 1980s, there were sections of incomplete highway where motorists were complelled to exit onto older at-grade roadways. And in the earlier stages, as shown in the brochure above, there were far more incomplete sections than complete!

In the 1970s, travelling by car across the Southeast United States where there were only partially completed Interstates, motorists and truckers alike had to get on and off the sections as they found them. For me, as a motorist, the last portion of incomplete Interstate that I recall was in South Carolina in the 1980s through Spartanburg. Alas I took the old road and was unfortunately detained by their police force because of my interest in the former Spartanburg HoJo's!

 
Postcard circa 1960s: Kummerlowe
 
 
Photograph March 30, 2003: Kummerlowe
 
 
Photographs 2002: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photograph March 30, 2003; Kummerlowe
 
 
Photograph 2002: Phil Edwards
 
 
Photograph April 30, 2005: Kummerlowe
 
 
Photograph March 30, 2003: Kummerlowe
 

By the early 2000s, the Restaurant's interior was becoming exterior. Even though it was in great disarray and in an advanced state of deterioration, many fixtures and even its furnishings remained largely in place. Back in the kitchen, stainless steel cabinets looked almost ready for use, and chairs and tables as well as cases of restaurant china were neatly stacked in what might have been the Lamplighter Room.

Morevoer I discovered a cache of weathered 1996 Howard Johnson Motor Lodge directories in the main dining room which shall reamin a mystery since the property ceased being a Howard Johnson's in 1984!

 
Photographs April 30, 2005: Kummerlowe
 
 
 
 
Photographs March 30, 2003; Kummerlowe
 
Since the Restaurant faced I-75, its less than appealing back-side was presented to guests arriving from U.S. 41 and the Motor Lodge. Thus a decorative concrete-block screen wall was employed to conceal the business end of the Restaurant.
 
 
 
Photographs 2002: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
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