Lobby card circa 1980: Dan Donahue
 
Parsippany, New Jersey -- 949 Rt 46 East @ Beverwyck Rd
AKA Troy Hills
 

Built in the most classic HoJo's highway style, the Parsippany complex opened in the summer of 1966 and featured 72 guest units. Since is was only a few miles from the Whippany HJ Motor Lodge and Restaurant no guest wings were ever added. The Lodge retained its Howard Johnson name until 1993 and was subsequently converted into a Ramada.
 
Photograph September 2005: Eric Paddon
 
 
Photographs June 2010: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photographs June 2010: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Above & right: Guest rooms retained sliders into the second decade of the "new" millennium, but had lost second vanities and privacy screens.
Above: Guest rooms had become a hodgepodge of particle board furnishings by the end of the 2000s.
 
 
 
 
 
Photographs September 2005: Eric Paddon
 
 
 
 
Photographs June 2010: Phil Edwards
 
 

Color Shifts
Orange, Green, to Blue
--the roof fades from view

Long before the Motor Lodge & Restaurant complex opened, Parsippany was served by a colonial-style Howard Johnson's Restaurant at Cobb's Corner at the intersection of U.S. 46 and SR 202. That original circa 1940s location was closed and replaced by the Restaurant adjacent to the Motor Lodge.

The former HJ Restaurant housed Sakura Steak, Sushi and Bar--a Japanese style eatery by the middle 2000s. While the Motor Lodge lost most of its familiarity, the Restaurant at least retained its overall look and shape...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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