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Greensboro-North,
North Carolina
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110 Seneca Rd |
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The
Greensboro-North HoJo's opened in the fall of 1970. Featuring a
classic highway Motor Lodge layout, the 136 guest unit remained
intact until the early 2000s--complete with its abbreviated Howard
Johnson name on the Lodge.
By
2002 its Gate Lodge had been squared off, but still retained its
gleaming Orange Roof. While the property still waved the 1985 to
1996 logo on its "'rounded edge" highway sign, by the
middle 2000s it had been removed. Moreover the site completely lost
the Howard Johnson name and subsequently brand hopped. It was apparently
a Days Inn, Knights Inn, and then was simultaneously the Greensboro
Hotel and Choice Extended Stay (however there never any affiliation
whit Choice Hotels).
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August 10, 2002 |
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October 2002: Phil Edwards |
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Photographs
August 10, 2002 |
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October 2002: Phil Edwards |
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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 remained largely intact as recently as the early 2000s.
Incredibly
even as its proprietors attempted to conceal the Restaurant's true
identity with a Mexican theme, 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. |
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Photographs
October 2002: Phil Edwards |
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