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The
Boston Post: Wed. Morning Ed., Nov. 18, 1942: page 18 |
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Boston
-- 123 Summer Street
(between South and Lincoln) |
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Opened
at the onset of World War II, Boston's storefront HoJo's Restaurant
on Summer Street was said to be "enroute to the South Station
and department store section of the city." |
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The
Howard Johnson Scoop: September, 1949, page 6 |
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Boston
-- 130 Bolylston Street |
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Converted
by licensee Paul Hebert in 1949, his "intown" Howard Johnson's
had been the Shangri La Restaurant. The Restaurant featured a cocktail
lounge and nearly all of the food was prepared behind the counter
in plain view of its patrons. |
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Boston
-- 162 Tremont
Street |
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Licensee James
Phelan of Lynn, Massachusetts operated the Tremont Street
location which opened in about 1948. It was described as a
"counter store," and Mr. Phelan's other vocations
included being a radio/advertising executive as well as the
president of Luminous Engineering Company. |
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The
Howard Johnson Scoop: September, 1949, page 7 |
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The
Boston Post: Wed. Morning Ed., Nov. 18, 1942: page 18 |
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Boston
- Newspaper Row-- 267-275
Washington Street |
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Located
on the street floor of the Boston Post building, the Washington
Street location was the third Howard Johnson's in Boston's business
district. It opened for business in November of 1942 during World
War II. The Boston Post claimed that Newspaper Row, where the
HoJo's had newly opened, was a part of the city where "more
restaurants daily served more people than in any other section
of Boston."
"The
entire restaurant was conceived and is operated under the
formula introduced by Johnson's along the heavily-traveled
highways of the country--the finest foods prepared on the
premise of each restaurant, featuring their own pastries,
cakes and doughnuts, Howard Johnson's famous ice cream,
fried clams and frankfurters and complete meals appetizingly
served and moderately priced.
Finally,
and by no means the least attraction, is the modernly equipped
soda fountain where delicious sodas and sundaes are made
by expert fountain employees using the justly famous Howard
Johnson's ice creams of 28 flavors."
The
Boston Post: Wed. Morning, Nov. 18, 1942; p. 18
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The
Boston Post: Wed. Morning Ed., Nov. 18, 1942: page 18 |
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Boston
- Haymarket Square |
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Sited at the corner of Sudbury
and Washington Streets, the Haymarket Square store predated World
War II. It was among the earlier Restaurants to have been opened
and was listed in the circa 1937 Howard Johnson's map directory
of locations. |
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Boston
- Kenmore Square --
645 Beacon Street |
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By
the 2000s little remained of licensee Paul Mangin's circa 1930s
Howard Johnson's Restaurant that had been in the (now reborn) Hotel
Buckminster. After the hotel was the Buckminister it was
called the St. George, then it was purchased by Grahm Junior College
to be used for student housing. The once fashionable and historic
hotel became Leavitt Hall. Eventually the college faltered and sold
the property in the late 1970s before folding. A giant landmark
White Fuel sign once graced the old hotel/dorm roof.
An
alumnus of Grahm Junior College discovered the Simple Simon and
the Pieman inset in Terrazzo under a door mat at the Brookline Avenue
entrance to Pizzeria Uno--it is likely the last remnant of the old
HoJo's at the site. |
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Photo
ca. 1940s from Sky: July 1997, p. 36: Courtesy of Kevin
Cannon |
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