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1989-'90: Scott Sargent |
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Kansas
City-North, MO -- 1600 N E Russell
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Kansas
City-North was a classic Motor Lodge and Restaurant Howard Johnson's
complex built in 1963. It originally offered 79 guest rooms. Business
boomed and by the late 1980s the Motor Lodge boasted 110 rooms
as well as a host of top notch HoJo's amenities.
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ca. 1970s: Dan Donahue |
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Host
of the Highways
What
do you want in away from home hospitality? Howard
Johnson's-North has it. We are a full service facility
with accommodations tailored to fit your needs. The
completeness of our facility enables us to welcome
groups of just a few to 300 for all purposes. Get
together with us to inspire the salesman, show new
products, hold a seminar, have a reception or rehearsal
dinner, host a banquet. We have the meeting rooms
and equipment. Our staff knows how to provide the
service with swift, efficient coffee breaks, luncheon,
or dinner. We're function specialists. |
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Above:
The Embers Lounge was once a swinging/happenin' night spot. During
the course of North's life as a Howard Johnson's, an attention
grabber was the manager's complimentary cocktail reception held
nightly!
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The Restaurant's overflow or possibly Lamplighter Room was tastefully
decorated and featured an extensive wine selection. |
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October 2005: Phil Edwards |
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North's
Motor Lodge lasted as a Howard Johnson's until 1991. Subsequently
it was converted into a Travelodge, Ramada Inn, the Parks Lodge,
and finally the Super
Inn .
With each name change the once ultramodern top of the line Motor
Lodge sadly lost its brilliance becoming seedier and seedier.
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Still outfitted as a Restaurant, the former HoJo's proclaimed
that it was "open" as The Diner. However The Diner was
already no more by the early 2000s. |
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2000s: Scott Sargent |
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October 2005: Phil Edwards |
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Above:
Stripped of its "open" and The Diner signs the Restaurant
was vacant in 2005.
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Bizarrely recycled, the Restaurant by 2006 had come to be a place
where Oriental characters denoted it as the U.S. Commercial Furniture
sales center...uh huh--whatever. |
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December 2006: Phil Edwards |
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