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| Postcard circa
1970: Marcus Nauman |
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Baton
Rouge-College, Louisiana
-- 2365 College Dr (@ I-10)
AKA East |
Opened
in October 1970, the College complex was near the busy I-10 College
Drive interchange at Corporate Blvd. across from what was the
short lived Corporate Square Mall. Sited ahead of its time, the
area later become one of the most heavily trafficked areas of
Baton Rouge.
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| Brochure
circa 1995: Kummerlowe |
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The
property's last owner while the site was still a Howard Johnson's
was the Hotel Partnership of Louisiana whose principle partner
was Baton Rouge attorney Van Mayhall. The partnership defaulted
and the site was foreclosed upon and then sold at sheriff sale
in early 1992 to Simone Losavio of Gulf South Reality. Following
the ownership transfer the Motor Lodge became the unbranded Corporate
Inn.
In
1994 Major Jagdish Tamboli and two partners purchased the former
Howard Johnson's. Having come to the United States in 1984 after
retiring from the the Indian Army at the age of 46, Tamboli and
his family settled in the Houston area where he and his wife
managed a liquor store. A friend told him about the former Baton
Rouge Motor Lodge which he purchased and gradually began renovating.
He said that the motel "is a good revenue-generating property,"
and in a newspaper interview indicated that he was partnering
with other Indian-Americans in order to expand their motel holdings.
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| Photographs
1997: Kummerlowe |
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| Photographs
1999: Kummerlowe |
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Above
& Below: A manager's apartment was added to the property
to the right of the Gate Lodge during the late 1990s, and a renovation
resulted in the loss of ground floor sliders in the main guest
buildings, but at least the property still appeared to be a going
concern. As an adjunct to lodging offerings the owner became a
U-Haul franchisee! |
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| Photograph
2001: Kummerlowe |
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| Photographs
December 2003: Kummerlowe |
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| Photos
December 2003: Phil Edwards |
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| Photographs
1999: Kummerlowe |
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Not
long after Imperial Group acquired the Howard Johnson Company
and relaxed the requirement that each Motor Lodge offer a Howard
Johnson's Restaurant, the University Restaurant at the College
Drive Motor Lodge ceased to operate under the Orange Roof in about
1982 and was converted into a thinly disguised Waffle House. |
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