Lew Bundles Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 https://doyouremember.com/167242/all-howard-johnson-restaurants-closed?fbclid=IwAR1_q9cSOxVQbokEbd0nafvrU7inSGOBMKrkBIo-zScZ00hP3cw4up6EYhY 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 I have fond memories of family trips with my mom, dad and brother to various Howard Johnsons as a kid. Hard to beat 28 flavors of ice cream in the 1960s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 16 minutes ago, Lew Bundles said: https://doyouremember.com/167242/all-howard-johnson-restaurants-closed?fbclid=IwAR1_q9cSOxVQbokEbd0nafvrU7inSGOBMKrkBIo-zScZ00hP3cw4up6EYhY When I was a kid our family did a lot of road-tripping. Howard Johnson's were always where we stopped for meals and ice cream RIP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie b Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 HoJo's is now a sweet memory along with the Big Boy and Stuckey's road trip restaurants. A few still exist, but the time of families in big station wagons stopping in for a family sit-down meal while on the way to Grandma's house is a bygone era. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 Howard Johnson's was not as big on the west coast...still sad to see them go. Susie, we still have a couple of Bob's Big Boys out our way if you ever get the chance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCT Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 To be honest, the chain died a death decades ago. I was in Lake George a few years back for an Ohana tiki festival, and was compelled to check out that HoJo's just for nostalgia's sake--but truly, it was a HoJo's in name only, with nary a hint of the fried clams and super-rich ice cream of the glory days. It was musty as hell in there too. Fortunately, the A&W stand down the road from there was an intact slice of retro resto heaven. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I was with my late parents at the Ohio Turnpike Service Plaza & Ho Jo's had their own colas including root beer, ginger ale, orange & their take on Pepsi during the mid 70's!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Ah, HoJo's.... another casualty from among the businesses that were all over the U.S. in the 20th century. Too bad they couldn't find a way to stay in business. The same goes for retail giants like W.T. Grant, Montgomery Ward, Sear's, Woolworth's, G.C. Murphy, and others. The WalMart-ing of America really affected those types of retailers (most of which had diners or restaurants within). Any of them that managed to survive the WalMart assault were finished off by Amazon. Different world now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 When we moved to Tehachapi in '81 there wasn't a chain store in sight. All mom-and-pop stores. Then, sometime in the 90's, a K-Mart opened. Ran all the small stores out of business. A few years back, a Walmart opened up and chased K-Mart out of town. Karma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I'm sure Connie Frances is happy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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