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 Photograph courtesy of Phil Edwards

 Erie, Pennsylvania
2832 W. Eighth St.

 

 Most likely opened in 1951, this location remained a stand-alone Restaurant. About ten years later Erie would have a Motor Lodge/Restaurant along I-90. Amazingly the circa 1951 neo-colonial Restaurant remained a Howard Johnson's until the middle 1980s.

Late in 2003 Phil Edwards discovered that this former HJ was converted in to a Quaker Steak & Lube. While he reported that the original building still stands, it is nearly unrecognizable.
 
 
 

 Postcard circa 1950s
 

 

 Photographs courtesy of Phil Edwards
 

 
 

 
 
 

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