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Bye Bye Bangor HoJo's
(Feb. 16, 2008) LoopNet, the giant commercial online real estate listing service, is indicating that the Bangor, Maine HoJo's is for sale. CLICK HERE for details. Thanks to Charles Hathaway for the tip on this HoJo story. The end of Bangor will leave just two HoJo Restaurants remaining.
Want Your Own HoJo's? Former North Haven, CT HoJo's Building For Lease (Includes Orange Roof)
(Jan. 13, 2008) Originally opened in the late 1960's as a HoJo's, in 1982, this building became Danny's (later Donato's) Italian Restaurant. Now, the building is empty and up for lease. Though painted over, it has the original porcelain enamel orange roof. A little paint remover and the orange is back! The building is being offered by CA White Realty.
Spotlight on Lake Placid HoJo's By Benjamin Pomerance CLICK HERE
Lake Placid HoJo: Mission Possible
By Benjamin Pomerance
Twilight for a roadside icon…and the man who's keeping the light alive
Above: What may end up being the last HoJo's on the planet, the Butler's Lake Placid, NY.
(Lake Placid, NY) Ronald Butler is a man on a mission. He's just spied something wrong with the salad bar — his salad bar — at the Lake Placid (N.Y.) Howard Johnson's restaurant. The items in the buffet table haven't been changed recently enough for a man who's been ensuring freshness in his beloved eatery since 1956. Yet on this particular day, Howard Johnson's is busy as usual, and there aren't any members of the waitstaff available to replenish the supplies. So the longtime restaurant co-owner does what he does on so many days: dons some plastic gloves, rolls up his sleeves, grabs a gigantic vat of lettuce and goes to work. Before long, every tray in the salad bar has been refilled, every item from applesauce to water chestnuts fresh as fresh can be. Finally, Butler leans back from the long, food-laden table and smiles. Mission accomplished. CLICK HERE to read the entire article.
Story and article below photos by Benjamin Pomerance
From All Points North Magazine
Special to HoJoLand.com
(From Editor, HoJoLand.com) I have received many emails as to why I closed down the HoJoBlog I had begun here on HoJoLand.com. The answer is that the blog has been placed on hiatus. I felt it was not doing much good, and mainly consisted of posts from people who continue to express doubts about the hoped for relaunch of Howard Johnson's food and beverage by the owner of that food and beverage brand, La Mancha Group. I had tried, but with little success, to convince people that HoJo's food and beverage was indeed coming back. I just felt the blog was certainly not helping bolster the spirit behind La Mancha's relaunch, and in fact, could have been hurting it. My goal from the start of HoJoLand.com years ago was to preserve the memory of the roadside icon, and to hope for a "orange knight" who would come to the rescue of HoJo's food and beverage. When La Mancha came on the scene as the new owner of the brand, I hoped that this was finally our "orange knight." I will continue to hope for new orange roofs sprouting up across this great land, and to hope that La Mancha proves the naysayers wrong. Only time will tell if "..the impossible dream" will materialize.
HoJoLand.com HoJoBlog On Hiatus
Above: current Bangor, Maine HoJo's awaits its fate.
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