Postcards circa 1960s: Kummerlowe
 
Ann Arbor -- 2380 Carpenter Rd.

Terry Burns who once worked for Howard Johnson's reflected that the Ann Arbor HJ Restaurant was very significant because is was the HQ for all of Michigan, and was a very busy location for the Company. The district manager was stationed at the restaurant and all managers trained there including him in 1973! Terry went on to say that "it was the last Company restaurant in Michigan--it did a great business for years, and closed in the mid-1980s." Later it became Silverman's and finally an Alpha Coney Island. In its last days the building was owned by the proprietors of the former Motor Lodge who were charging the restaurant operators upwards of $7,000 a month rent!

 
 
 
Photographs May 2002: Terry Burns
 
 
 
 
Photos July 2005: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
Photograph April 2004: Kummerlowe
 
 
 
 
Photographs April 2004: Kummerlowe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photographs July 2005: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photograph may 2002: Terry Burns
 

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