Cedar Rapids

Photographs 2004: Courtesy of Rick Briley

Cedar Rapids Gazette: 3-8-69

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

--3100 (2650) 16th Ave SW (U.S. 30)

Having opened in the winter 1964, Cedar Rapids was the third Howard Johnson's complex in the Hawkeye State. Built in a typical classic Motor Lodge and Restaurant configuration the site was purged in 1982.

Below: Note the recycled Howard Johnson's road sign--its trapezoid was replaced but the reader board remained in place.

Photographs August 2006: Courtesy of Phil Edwards

The Cedar Rapids Restaurant was at some point converted into a Country Kitchen and remained such by the middle 2000s (apparently the Motor Lodge never operated as a Country Inn).