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Howard Johnson's restaurant to close, leaving only 1 more (Maine)
WRAL/AP ^ | 8/23/2016 | David Sharp

Posted on 08/23/2016 7:32:32 PM PDT by RightGeek

BANGOR, Maine — The closing of one of the last two Howard Johnson restaurants in a couple of weeks will mark the end of its fried clam strips, ice cream and other menu staples that nourished baby boomers and leave the once-proud restaurant chain teetering on the brink of extinction.

The slice of roadside Americana will no longer be served up in Bangor after Sept. 6.

For waitress Kathe Jewett, it's the only job she's held since starting work when the restaurant opened in 1966.

"It's bittersweet, but it's nothing to be sad about," the 68-year-old Jewett insisted Tuesday during a break from serving customers. "I've been here for 50 years — and it's time."

The closing will leave only one Howard Johnson restaurant, in Lake George, New York.

[More nostalgia and pictures at the link]

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: chat; economy; howardjohnsons
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To: GnuThere

I’ll take E.V.O.O. for 500, Alex, and pass on the keffiyeh.


61 posted on 08/23/2016 7:59:53 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: RightGeek

Ending forever my career as a Fried Clam Lover.

Sigh ...


62 posted on 08/23/2016 7:59:55 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you should have endorsed. Big mistake.)
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To: henkster

Stuckey sold out to the Pet Milk folks, who with their fancy business degrees ran it into the ground. His son bought the remnants back in the mid-1980s and has done a slow but steady job of re-building the chain.


63 posted on 08/23/2016 8:00:59 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: aposiopetic

HoJo’s used to have amazing maple nut ice cream..


64 posted on 08/23/2016 8:01:25 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Dr. Sivana

To add to the list:

EJ Korvette


65 posted on 08/23/2016 8:01:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: RightGeek

Increasingly sadder...

Mom loves the fried clams and still compares all to them.

I just miss the fact they were such a mainstay.


66 posted on 08/23/2016 8:03:15 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: PAR35

Stuckeys used to be everywhere in the southeast but I haven’t seen one in years. I was never a fan of the pecan log.


67 posted on 08/23/2016 8:03:19 PM PDT by henkster
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To: dainbramaged

Ma and I went there for the fish & fries special as well, and it was all you can eat. Yum!


68 posted on 08/23/2016 8:04:03 PM PDT by W. (Hillary for sale: The $2 whore of politics!)
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To: RightGeek

Just one left? I don't think so!


69 posted on 08/23/2016 8:05:09 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: RightGeek

You know you are getting ancient when you remember these at darn near every exit on the then new interstate system.


70 posted on 08/23/2016 8:05:21 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: RightGeek
Their signs will now read: No Ho Jo's
71 posted on 08/23/2016 8:06:49 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: RightGeek

My first job. Busboy. After a weekend, I’d be covered in maple syrup. I opulent eat pancakes for almost a decade.

Proud to say I’m back!


72 posted on 08/23/2016 8:09:07 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: RightGeek
I remember getting Ice Cream Sundaes there.
73 posted on 08/23/2016 8:10:05 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: Nateman

It’s the restaurants that are vanishing in the USA. Still plenty of hotels including the one in Bangor in the article.


74 posted on 08/23/2016 8:10:30 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: InterceptPoint
Ending forever my career as a Fried Clam Lover.

Don't despair, we have thousands of places to get great fried clams....freshly dug.

75 posted on 08/23/2016 8:11:07 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs and RINOs......same thing.)
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To: RightGeek
1960's - F. W. Woolworth luncheonette menu


76 posted on 08/23/2016 8:11:38 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Trips to Florida from the Midwest always involved a Hojo’s and Stuckey’s pecan rolls in the late 60’s for me. Holiday Inn’s with swimming pools were also an indulgence. Dang. I’m old!


77 posted on 08/23/2016 8:12:44 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: Iron Munro

God help me, I remember that as a child.


78 posted on 08/23/2016 8:13:46 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: RightGeek

I can remember as a kid going to one in St. Louis Missouri on N. Lindbergh Blvd, Creve Coeur, Missouri They had all you can eat fried chicken on Monday evenings. It was really quite a great place to go until it closed. It then became a four-star restaurant named Wades. The building still stands but has been empty for more than 10 years.


79 posted on 08/23/2016 8:14:04 PM PDT by ncfool ( We are in the United Socialist State of aMeriKa. The USSA. Sheeple of aMeriKa follow hil-LIAR-ly)
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To: RightGeek

Patel....need to know anymore...(keepers of the house) ...I know many of these persons from playing cricket with them in Florida ...I was one of two Americans that played....I met only 1 or two that I would break bread with...the rest can go F__k themselves.


80 posted on 08/23/2016 8:14:21 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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