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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.
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
Nov. 9, 2008: Added Pics To HoJoLand's "HoJo Ghosts" Page CLICK HERE
(Nov. 9, 2008) HoJo fans probably don't agree with the recent demand for "change," at least when it comes to the tradition of HoJo's Restaurants. In the summer of 2005, after 46 years serving Times Square, this Rubenstein family owned HoJo's closed for good. It has since been razed and will soon be home to the flagship store of apparel retailer American Eagle. In addition to four stories of retail space, the site will host a huge amount of signage. But, while the "Eagle" will soon land at the famous "crossroads of the world," many folks will continue to have warm memories of the grand old lady of the Howard Johnson's Restaurant empire.
"Howard Johnson's" Products Back In Stores, Kind of.......
(June 12, 2009) Ever since America's Kitchen, the company that manufactured and distributed the Howard Johnson's line of retail frozen foods went out of business. last year, people have seen HoJo frozen foods disappear from store shelves. Now, HoJo products are back, but not the kind you'd want to eat. We're talking about Howard Johnson's Fertilizers! Now available in Stop & Shop stores. Here's the website.
Jan. 16, 2009: New Story on Ex-Wallingford, CT HoJo's For Sale CLICK HERE
CT HoJo Classic
For Sale
(Jan. 16, 2009) Built in 1939 by Isabelle Bradley and Alice Fiar Read the story about a classic former HoJo's in Wallingford, CT that is for sale by CLICKING HERE..
HoJo fertilizer (left) is the only HoJo brand still available at Stop & Shop. Stouffer's (right) fills the HoJo foods void.
HoJology: Times Square
HoJo's 1959 Opening "Welcome" Letter Unearthed !
(June 14, 2009) The "grand lady" of all HoJo's, the former Times Square (46th Street) location, closed in 2005. Soon, apparel retailer American Eagle, will open it's flagship store in the former location. And while cosrtuction crews have unearthed lots of old brick from the former 100 year old-plus building that housed HoJo's, HoJoLand.com has unearther a 1959 letter from the Howard Johnson Company to the Rubenstein family, congratulating them on the recent opening of their HoJo's unit at 46th Street. Click on the photo to the right to see a larger version.
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