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| Postcard
circa 1970s |
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& Below: Car window views of the Motor Lodge
on connector route between I-80 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. |
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| Postcard
2004: Courtesy of Jack Sheppard |
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Only
lasting a couple of years, the independent owners sold their
still viable and valuable location, and the old Mansard HoJo's
was converted into a Denny's--except that its conversion rendered
it unrecognizable as ever having been a Howard Johnson's.
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Saved
from the Scrap Heap of History!
Mark Ihrie plucked the Beacon, and at considerable
expense had it restored to its original "environmental
era" luster. He also saved the Rum Keg
Lounge sign as well as several other artifacts
from the dismantled White Haven Howard Johnson's! |
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| Photograph
March 2007 |
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View from automobile passenger window en route from I-80 to the
Pennsylvania Turnpike's toll plaza and entry ramp. |
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