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Postcard
circa 1970s: Kummerlowe |
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Lumberton,
North Carolina
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3530
Capuano Dr |
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A
veritable juggernaut of Howard Johnson's once lined North Carolina's
stretch of Interstate 95 from North to South! Motorists were sure
not to miss one of the several Howard Johnson's locations along
the important route! The Lumberton complex opened during the summer
of 1968 as the southernmost HoJo's along the Interstate in the Tar
Heel State.
By the middle 1980s, it along with sister locations in Roanoke
Rapids, Gold
Rock, and Dunn
were managed and supervised by the Pearsall Operating Co., Inc.
The Lumberton Motor Lodge was remarkable in its longevity as a Howard
Johnson and had managed to maintain its Orange Roofed Gate Lodge--albeit
in altered form into the 2010s.
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Lobby
card circa 1990s: Kummerlowe |
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Postcard
circa 1985: Kummerlowe |
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Postcard circa
2000: Kummerlowe |
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Photographs
circa 2000s: Bob Venditti |
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Weary
of its advertised low price for a night's stay, Bob was
surprised to discover that his room was in better shape
than he had expected, and that the old Motor Lodge had held
up fairy well... considering.
However,
he pointed out that the property's exterior showed signs
of "deferred maintenance," and had suffered visits
from Cendant's curb appeal police. Bob recalled that he
stopped at Lumberton for a quick lunch while headed north
back in 1971, and that the "restaurant's foyer had
Plexiglas holders on the wall filled with HJ directories."
He said that he took one and may even still have it!
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Lobby card circa
2000s: Kummerlowe |
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Photographs
circa 2000s: Bob Venditti |
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Photograph
October 2002: Phil Edwards |
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Photographs
April 2003: Phil Edwards |
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Photographs
December 10, 2006: Kummerlowe |
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Photographs
October 2007: Phil Edwards |
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Photograph
December 10, 2006: Kummerlowe |
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