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Howard Johnson's restaurants were franchised separately from the hotel brand beginning in 1986 but, in the years that followed, severely dwindled in number until eventually disappearing altogether. [7] The last restaurant, in Lake George, New York, closed in 2022.
Jun 1, 2022 · The last surviving Howard Johnson’s restaurant has closed. Open for most of the past 70 years, the restaurant was located in Lake George, New York, a popular summer vacation spot near the...
Jan 25, 2023 · Sadly, Eater reports that Howard Johnson's hasn't produced ice cream since the last millennium, so now the Lake George restaurant sources their ice cream from Gifford's instead. As to those other long-lost menu items, the New York Public Library has a vintage Howard Johnson's menu in their archives.
Aug 26, 2021 · In the 1950s and 1960s, Howard Johnson’s rose to become the largest American restaurant chain, the first giant in the industry. The company’s familiar orange roofs and steeples covered much of the U.S. highway system.
Nov 11, 2021 · Long before McDonald’s Golden Arches were dotting streets, Johnson used the distinctive design scheme of his Rufus Nims-designed restaurant—a slanted orange roof framing plate-glass...
Jul 23, 2018 · Howard Johnson’s was a pioneer of the nationwide roadside restaurant, replicating from coast-to-coast everything from its signature orange roof, cupola, the Simple Simon and the Pieman plaques,...
Jun 13, 2022 · 0:41. At one time, Howard Johnson's restaurants were as ubiquitous in the American landscape as the McDonald's golden arches have become. Communities throughout the country were dotted with...
Jun 2, 2022 · The last Howard Johnson’s Restaurant in America has closed. The location in Lake George, New York, was for a number of years the final outpost in what was once one of the nation’s biggest restaurant chains, with a history going back to a single location in 1925.
Sep 28, 2016 · The closing of the Bangor, Maine, Howard Johnson leaves only one survivor of an otherwise extinct restaurant brand that truly deserves the overworked term “iconic.”
Aug 29, 2020 · The popular restaurant chain started in 1925 when Howard D. Johnson, in debt because of his father's business, opened a newspaper and ice cream shop on Beale Street in Quincy.
