Dallas
 
Photograph 2004: Courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
Dallas, Texas -- 2900 Mockingbird Ln
 
Built in 1964, the stand-alone HJ Restaurant in Dallas on Mockingbird Lane occupied a classic Nims-type building. It was the last free-standing Restaurant operating in Dallas when it closed in 1980. Soon after its closure the building was demolished and a bank branch came to occupy its desirable corner site.
 
 

FortWorth
 
Advertisement for United States Air Conditioning Corp. circa 1952
 
Fort Worth , Texas -- Fair Oaks Shopping Center
 
Directories list a couple of different addresses/locations for the stand-alone Fort Worth Restaurant. One of the first Howard Johnson's Restaurants in Texas it opened in the early 1950s with an exaggerated pediment cupola.
 
 

Irving
 
Postcard circa 1960s
 
Irving, Texas -- 2228 East Hwy 183 @ Rt 12 Loop
 
Likely opened in about 1956, the Irving HJ Restaurant's neighboring motel played off of recognizable HoJo's elements. Note that the Hinton's Motor Lodge sign is a trapezoid and that "Motor Lodge" is in the same style as Howard Johnson's used. Moreover the office and guest buildings are similar to the earlier designs used by the Company.
 
 
Unfortunately this Howard Johnson's and its adjacent independent motel were sited in the path of progress. It is more than likely that they were demolished at about the time that the nearby Texas Stadium was built.
 
 
 
More a coincidence than not, Hinton's featured an adjacent Texaco. By the 1960s Texaco and HoJo had a joint marketing agreement, and many Texaco stations were built alongside Motor Lodges (Holiday Inn and Gulf Oil had a similar arrangement). 
 
 
 
 

Longview
 
Postcard circa 1960s
 
 
Longview, Texas
1200 E Marshall Ave (U.S. 80) @ Alpine St
 

A stand-alone Restaurant, Longview was opened in about 1956 adjacent to the Globe Trotter Motel. A good stopping point, the location was between Shreveport and Dallas along U.S. 80 which was the main highway prior to the completion of I-20. Longview's Howard Johnson's Restaurant was assured of patrons--both locals and people traveling through or stopping at the Globe Trotter.

Although the satellite view appears to show that the Restaurant is extant, it is apparently an old image. Phil Edwards sought the site in 2004 but reported that it was gone.

 
 
USGS satellite image: © Microsoft Corporation
 
 

RedOak
 
Photograph 2004: Courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
Red Oak, Texas -- I-35 South
 
When it opened in 1978, Red Oak was among the last three stand-alone restaurants operating in the Lone Star State. Phil Edwards said that the building he photographed had been a Denny's before becoming the Merryland Buffet. It is not clear exactly where the Red Oak HoJo's had been located since directories never listed its street address, and the restaurant seen above and below does not appear to have been the Howard Johnson's.
 
 
 

SanAntonio
 
Photograph 2004: Courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
San Antonio , Texas -- San Pedro @ Clower (U.S. 281)
 
Mr Edwards was unable to locate any remains of San Antonio's circa 1955 stand-alone Restaurant. Whatever corner it had been sited on had been redeveloped or was empty.