Gold
Rock's Restaurant was one of the last three HoJo's in North
Carolina-- making it until the middle 1990s. As recently as
2001 the Restaurant's dining room included the eight sided
HoJo's salad bar and had seen few renovations. A poster advertising
the Big Blue breakfast was on the door leading from the Motor
Lodge lobby, and was a remnant of the Restaurant's last days
as a Howard Johnson's.
Unfortunately
employees seemed to be unfriendly, unwelcoming, and upset
by my interest in their restaurant. The manager went out of
his way to forbid photography of the amazingly intact interior.
Their outlook may have changed since my visit, but given the
state of race relations in the interim, I tend to doubt it. |