Photograph September 1999

Beaumont's Restaurant was a post-Nims design based on the larger prototype that was built in Dallas (Stemmons 1964). At their hey day, hundreds of the type found at Beaumont proliferated at Interstate interchanges across the United States. Later the design was adapted to save construction costs and used a Mansard facade.

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Photographs March 15, 2006

Photograph 2003: Courtesy of Phil Edwards

Photographs March 15, 2006

The Restaurant's exterior was remarkably recognizable in 2006. In the 1970s I ate in the then Howard Johnson's in route to Astroworld (see post script about the theme park).