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circa 1950s Kummerlowe |
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Barre,
VT
-- 1634 Us Route 302 (Barre-Montpelier Road) |
Barre's
Howard Johnson's Restaurant was opened during a wave of post-war
expansion for the chain. Its official opening date, according to
Howard Johnson Company records, was July 6, 1949.
The
Restaurant was owned and operated by Fernando Saldi, who had made
a name for himself as welterweight boxing champion of New England.
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card circa 1950s: Kummerlowe |
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circa 1950s: Nate Coggeshall-Beyea |
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circa 1960s: Kummerlowe |
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May 28, 2005: Phil Edwards |
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In
1981 the Saldi family sold the restaurant, which eventually morphed
into a Lum’s and then into a Friendly’s. The site
was shuttered for good along with 63 other locations when Friendly's
filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October of 2011.
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October 2002: Phil Edwards |
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The
27-unit Vermonter Motel sited behind the HoJo's was opened circa
1953 and was also operated by Saldi.
According
to an article published in The Vermonter, CVS bought the abandoned
restaurant from Benoit Properties Inc. for $1.24 million, and
the Vermonter Motel from The Great Cedars LLC for $885,000 in
2012.
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former HoJo's along with its adjacent and complementary Vermonter
Motel were razed in 2013. |
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August 27, 2004: Kummerlowe |
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October 2002; Phil Edwards |
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May 28, 2005: Phil Edwards |
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