Well, I finally found the matchbook cover: http://www.kevingalvin.name/hojocover.htm I don’t suspect this store was open very long as this is the only mention of it I’ve seen.
Thanks, but I knew of them. His first store was at Wollaston, second in Quincy Square. See the theater reference here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s I suspect that the enterprising Johnson open his next store in Boston to capitalize on that event and I’m trying to find where it was. Thanks for the input! I’m going to look for that match book right now…
And actually this is part of a bigger puzzle I’m trying to solve in finding the first Howard Johnson restaurants [i know… that’s not what this site is about]. This has become an obsession…
I’m going to have to find it, but I’m pretty certain I have a Howard Johnson match book cover with this address. This would be long ago, probably the early 1930’s.
Well, I finally found the matchbook cover: http://www.kevingalvin.name/hojocover.htm I don’t suspect this store was open very long as this is the only mention of it I’ve seen.
Thanks, but I knew of them. His first store was at Wollaston, second in Quincy Square. See the theater reference here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s I suspect that the enterprising Johnson open his next store in Boston to capitalize on that event and I’m trying to find where it was. Thanks for the input! I’m going to look for that match book right now…
And actually this is part of a bigger puzzle I’m trying to solve in finding the first Howard Johnson restaurants [i know… that’s not what this site is about]. This has become an obsession…
I’m going to have to find it, but I’m pretty certain I have a Howard Johnson match book cover with this address. This would be long ago, probably the early 1930’s.
I know this is a long, long time ago, but does anyone remember a Howard Johnsons restaurant being in this building?