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Attesting
to Howard Johnson's long standing popularity in Maine,
Falmouth and several of Maine's other Restaurants remained
HoJo's until the mid 1980s. The location was set to
open on May 15, 1971 by licensee Paul H. Dantos.
Dantos
had owned the Dover,
NH restaurant, but sold it in order to build the one
in Falmouth. His plans included a Motor Lodge adjacent
to the Restaurant, but it never materialized. In describing
Falmouth he said that "the lounge will have a mural
of some local place in the area and will be really very
plush."
Left:
Long vacant, the former HJ was remade into the Foreside
Tavern
by Peter and Anne Verrill who recycled its Howard Johnson's
street sign.
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Above
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was vacant and going to seed in the early 2000s. |
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circa 1940: Kummerlowe Archive |
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Naples
was one of the earliest Howard Johnson's to open in
Maine and is listed in the 1937 directory/map. A large
number of postcards were commissioned for the long lived
Restaurant. On warm days patrons had the option of eating
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During
Howard Johnson's vibrant post war expansion boom,
many new licensees tried their hands at being restaurateurs.
Downtowns were seen as untapped markets for new Restaurants,
and agents were encouraged to set up shop in remodeled
or converted "storefront" sites.
Karl Adams and his partner, a man named Parks, converted
Langley's Restaurant on Congress Street into a Howard
Johnson's in 1949. Langley's had been at the site
since 1929. Mr. Adams was a Firestone agent and also
operated a Howard Johnson's in Cambridge, Massachusetts
(Harvard Square) at the corner of Boylston and Brattle
Streets that had been opened in August of 1948. Moreover
he was a graduate of the Harvard Business School.
Unfortunately his Portland HJ on Congress Street was
relatively short lived. |
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Portland,
Maine
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Forest Ave |
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Opened
in about 1937, this large Restaurant remained a Howard Johnson's
for nearly 30 years. The Portland location and Howard Johnson's
in general were touted in the February, 1949 issue of the
American Restaurant Magazine for attractiveness, top
advertising, ample parking, and menu variety. |
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Wells,
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Opened
in 1938 by George W. Parker and Hazel Woods, a nurse from
Marlboro, Massachusetts, Wells started as a seasonal location.
A couple of years later Miss Woods and her partner opened
a second HoJo's in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. Then in the 1949 she and Parker sold Wells
to Francis Hludik. The Hludik's owned and operated the
Restaurant until 1982. In its last life, the stately former
Howard Johnson's was called the Capri Family Bistro. A
fire starting in the basement burned the building to the
ground in 1991. By 1993 its site had been redeveloped
as a gasoline station.
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