Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Asbury Park Hojo's no more
George finally closed his orange flying saucer. on the boardwalk.
But Howard Johnson's food may yet return to N.J.
I remember the restaurant on summer evenings during the late Sixties when it was packed, with outdoor tables on upper level. By 2000, when the Asbury boardwalk ranked with the Walt Whitman house in Camden as one of the most depressed & depressing locales I'd ever visited, George was still opening the place for a few hours every weekend. The good news is the great building is staying.
Heather Mills McCartney, estranged wife of Beatles star Sir Paul, is to take legal action over newspaper claims that she worked as a prostitute in her 20s.
But Howard Johnson's food may yet return to N.J.
I remember the restaurant on summer evenings during the late Sixties when it was packed, with outdoor tables on upper level. By 2000, when the Asbury boardwalk ranked with the Walt Whitman house in Camden as one of the most depressed & depressing locales I'd ever visited, George was still opening the place for a few hours every weekend. The good news is the great building is staying.
Heather Mills McCartney, estranged wife of Beatles star Sir Paul, is to take legal action over newspaper claims that she worked as a prostitute in her 20s.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Everyone seems to agree that the HoJos were cool-looking places, but not enough people wanted to eat the food. I think the franchise "image" would have done well downscaled to small boardwalk & mall eateries, where ice cream concoctions, "specialties" like fried clams, & decent coffee would be enough to attract customers.
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