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Photographs March 2003: Courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
Greenville-South, South Carolina -- 3905 Augusta Rd @ I-85
 
The abandoned Dixie restaurant captured in Phil's photos was apparently the former HoJo's in heavy disguise. Opened in 1959 it must have been the seldom used "open ended" Ranch style like the one built the same year in New Castle. Slated for demolition, the Greenville-South Restaurant building is likely no longer extant.
 
 
 
 
 

Greenville-South was the first Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge and Restaurant complex in the Greenville area, for it opened for business in 1959 using the early standardized design created by architects Rufus Nims and Carl Koch.

The Motor Lodge was officially converted into a Days Inn during 1987 -- and remained such through the middle 1990s. After its Days Inn days, the location recycled its signs becoming the Economy Inn.

Note that the roadsign's supports once held a Howard Johnson's Trapezoid sign!

 
 
 
 
 
Photo 2002: Courtesy of Kevin Cannon
 
 
Photograph March 2003: Courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
 
Photographs August 2002
 
 
 
 
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