Dallas |
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Photograph
2004: Courtesy of Phil Edwards |
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Dallas,
Texas -- 2900 Mockingbird Ln |
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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. |
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FortWorth |
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Advertisement
for United States Air Conditioning Corp. circa 1952 |
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Fort
Worth , Texas -- Fair
Oaks Shopping Center |
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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. |
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Irving |
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Irving,
Texas -- 2228
East Hwy 183 @ Rt 12 Loop |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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Longview |
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Longview,
Texas
1200
E Marshall Ave (U.S. 80) @ Alpine St
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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. |
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USGS satellite image:
© Microsoft Corporation |
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RedOak |
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Photograph
2004: Courtesy of Phil Edwards |
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Red
Oak, Texas -- I-35 South |
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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. |
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SanAntonio |
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Photograph
2004: Courtesy of Phil Edwards |
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San
Antonio , Texas --
San Pedro @ Clower (U.S. 281) |
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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. |
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