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Old 08-26-2016, 01:23 PM   #28450
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post
There will only be one Howard Johnson restaurant remaining in the US when this establishment in Bangor, Maine closes on September 6.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...0e9_story.html






End of an era and a chain I recall well from my childhood. Not to mention that future generations will not get this joke from the film Blazing Saddles:
I spent a couple of years just up the road from Bangor back in the '70s, and recall fondly many an evening happily spent in Ho-Jo's lounge.
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