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Photographs August 10, 2002
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Howard Johnson's Restaurant at Greensboro-North was one of the last three HoJo's in North Carolina. It remained open until the mid 1990s, and helps to explain part of why it remained largely intact as recently as 2002.

Incredibly even as its proprietors attempted to conceal the Restaurant's true identity with their latin decorations and signs, features like the Orange Roof, Spire and broken Simple Simon and the Pieman Weathervane, Dairy Bar, and even the 28 Ice Cream Flavor mirror backdrop temporarily held their places to remind us of the Restaurant's former glory days as America's Landmark.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Photograph: 2000: Courtesy of Norman and Linda Hughes

 
 
 
 
Finally having lost it gleaming Orange Roof, the Restaurant's broken Simple Simon and the Pieman still called to motorists . . . but the call represents a promise that can no longer be fulfilled.
Photographs October, 2005: Courtesy of Robby Delius
 
 
 
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