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| Postcard postmarked April 10, 1944 |
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| Woodbridge,
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900 block of U.S. 1 North |
The
original Woodbridge Restaurant was a pre-WW II colonial
opened by 1939. Located along a section of what became U.S.
1, the once main north-south motorway in the Eastern United
States, the Orange Roofed Restaurant enjoyed many years
of prosperity and was joined by several hospitality enterprises
in its vicinity including adjoining Dutch Maid Motels!
Eventually
a modern 100 unit Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge and Restaurant
complex was opened in 1966, and it likely supplanted one
of the Dutch Maids as well as the circa 1939 Colonial Restaurant.
Probably a bit to distant from superhighways (the Garden
State Parkway ant the New Jersey Turnpike) for
continued success, the site lost
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| Matchbook
ca. 1950s: Anonymous |
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its HoJo's status in 1974 and at some point became the Landmark
Inn featuring a highly touted banquet and convention center.
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| Postcard postmarked July 16, 1949 |
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| From
Dutch Boy Painter: Vol. 41 No. 2 1949, page 24 |
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| Brochure
circa 1981: Dan Donahue |
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Its
real estate too valuable to remain used as an enterprise of hospitality,
the former Howard Johnson's turned convention center was razed
by the late 1990s and replaced by automobile dealers; Mcguire
Cadillac and Miller Buick Pontiac GMC. |
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