Probably opened in 1959, the Old Forge Restaurant was adjacent to the Forge Motel. By the time Jack found the old Restaurant, it had been converted into the Adirondack Family Buffet. Note the log cabin effect on the building's right side below the windows! Outdated Internet listings indicate that the Restaurant may have been called "Maloy's Main Street Bar & Grill" and perhaps "The Back Door" prior to its conversion to the buffet.

Reportedly the Restaurant's Trapezoid sign, complete with its neon Simple Simon and the Pieman, was rescued by a Utica, New York sign company after Old Forge was closed. The sign was then stored in a warehouse for many years. In 2003 it was sold to the American Sign Museum (http://www.signmuseum.com/), and might be restored and displayed at some future time. It is the only known to still exist Howard Johnson's sign of the era.