Their iconic orange roofs were fixtures of the American highway, beckoning hungry motorists to come and dine at HoJo's, as they were affectionately called. The ultra-dapper Don Draper dines at one ...

Courtesy of Aimee Seavey/Yankee Magazine Nashua's second Howard Johnson's, the one at Exit 5, looked exactly like this one in Bangor, Maine, which was New England's last HoJo's. It closed in 2016.

When Draper and new wife Megan (Jon Hamm and Jessica Paré) jaunted upstate to mix work with pleasure at a trendy 1960s HoJo, potty training gone awry put the pool off limits. While it wasn’t a ...

Known as HoJo's for short, the restaurants featured 28 flavors of ice cream, considered extravagant at the time. But Howard Johnson’s started to decline in the 1980s and couldn't keep up with ...

"We felt bad to close it." Fortunately for HoJo fans, the Lake George restaurant appears to be on solid ground and is open year round. "We're doing great," owner John LaRock said. "We're going to ...

They were called Howard Johnson Plaza hotels. The idea of going upscale was fine, Baerenklau said, but the fancy hotels were emphasized while HoJo’s middle-of-the-road properties languished.

The space is set to open as a new sushi and hibachi buffet restaurant. The Lake George location served as a HOJO's for 70 years before closing in June 2022. In it's heyday, the 1960s and 70s ...

When I visited a bookstore in central Tokyo on Jan. 9, I came across a corner featuring the Hojo clan, which wielded enormous power in the Kamakura Shogunate (1185-1333). I was surprised by the ...