Postcard ca 1940s: Kummerlowe Archive
 
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
 

The Portsmouth Howard Johnson's Restaurant was "up-and-moved" when U.S. 1 was realigned, and then it was resituated at the then newly constructed rotary. Archival photos of the restaurant being moved were offered for sale on eBay in the late 1990s.

 
Postcard ca 1950s: Nate Coggeshall-Beyea
 
 
Postcard ca 1950s: Kummerlowe Archive
 
 
Howard Johnson's Landmark: Oct-Nov, 1960, p 15
Several women were franchise operators as early as the late 1930s! Hazel Woods, pictured to the left at a party at the opening of a restaurant in Quincy, owned or was a partner in the Portsmouth restaurant and also another in Maine.
 
 
Postcard ca 1960: Kummerlowe Archive
 

By 1960 the property adjacent to the restaurant had been developed as a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge.

 
SCA News: Fall 1997 p 7 (Dave Waller)
 
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