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1965-66
AAA Tourbook: page 355 |
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Brochure circa
1960s: Tim & Tom Bernert collection |
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Louisville-St
Matthews, Ky |
--4621 Shelbyville Rd |
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Albert
Entwistle, Sr. was the owner & developer of the first
Motor Lodge & Restaurant complex in Louisville--he selected
its site because the location was to have "high visibility
from the future Watterson Expressway overpass."
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complex was constructed in 1959 at a cost of $750,000 by
Dahlem Construction Company, and encompassed 4 1/2 landscaped
acres with a pool and playground. The Motor Lodge lost its
HJ status in about 1988 and became a Days Inn during the
early 1990s.
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Brochure
circa 1960s: Kummerlowe |
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Postcard
caption: Howard Johnson's Suburban Motor Lodge, conveniently
located in a quit, suburban area of Bluegrass Country, opposite
Kentucky's finest shopping center, is just fifteen minutes from
Standiford Airport |
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Brochure:
Howard Johnson's Suburban Louisville Motor Lodge
includes many features and facilities, such as a 93 air-conditioned
rooms, restaurant with room and take-out service, baby sitting
service, and large area for children to play, including swings,
ping-pong and shuffleboard. Our spacious grounds enable guests
to have many refreshing hours of frolicsome fun. The same management
operates both Louisville Motor Lodges.
Above:
SWIMMING POOL. Our
beautiful, spacious pool is available for your enjoyment, in season |
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Above
Brochure caption: INVITING
MODERN INTERIORS. Various room combinations
offer perfect arrangements for a single traveler or for the whole
family.
Below
Brochure caption: LAMPLIGHTER
ROOM. Our well appointed meeting room is available
for business groups, receptions and private parties. |
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Brochure
circa 1970s: Kummerlowe |
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Brochure
caption:
Beef and Burgundy Room
At Motor Lodge is St. Matthews Superb dining and cocktails.
An atmosphere all its own in an interesting addition to the regular
dining room. Featuring fine menu selections including steaks,
lamb chops, prime rib, lobster tails and crab legs. Cocktails. |
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Photographs
2003: Phil Edwards |
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The
longtime HoJo's St, Matthews Restaurant was converted into an
Outback Steakhouse in about 1991.
Interviewed
by the loacal newspaper in 2001, the site's final owner, Mr. Entwistle,
Jr., remarked that people didn't know how pleasant and quiet the
motel's setting was. His father, Entwistle, Sr., who died in 1992
at 89, was a founder of the Louisville Convention and Visitors
Bureau, and opened Kentucky's first HoJo's Restaurant in 1952
at Eastern
Parkway and Preston Street. He and his family also ran several
other Howard Johnson's in Louisville including the Downtown
Motor Lodge & Restaurant, as well as in Lexington--the one
at St. Matthews was the last to be a HoJo's in the Louisville
area.
In
2001 just prior to the former Motor Lodge's demolition, an auction
was held to sell all of its contents. Ten years before that sad
event, the former HoJo's street sign was reportedly acquired by
a local antiques dealer named Joe Ley.
The
former Motor Lodge was demolished in December, 2001 and replaced
with a Babies R Us. |
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Above:
Note the blacked out Days Inn sign to the left in the photograph. |
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Photographs
February 2003: Heath Gross |
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