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 Photographs December, 2001

 Lake Placid, New York
Saranac Ave

 

 The guest rooms followed standard HoJo's layouts, but were perhaps a bit smaller than rooms built a decade earlier. Even as it featured a simple Pamper Panel, it was a very comfortable HoJo's room!

Alas, Ron Butler and his sons have abandoned the Howard Johnson name and converted their Motor Lodge into an uninspired Comfort Inn. In an interview in 1997 for Delta's Sky magazine, Mr Butler predicted that we would see the last Howard Johnson's restaurant go out of business by 2007--his prediction laced with not a small amount of insider information will likely come to pass.
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

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