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Howard Johnson’s – Wikipedia
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Howard Johnson’s, or Howard Johnson by Wyndham, is an American chain of hotels and motels located primarily throughout the United States. It was also a chain of restaurants for over 90 years and widely known for that alone.

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Howard Johnson (baseball) – Wikipedia
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Howard Michael Johnson (born November 29, 1960), nicknamed HoJo (the nickname of the otherwise unrelated Howard Johnson’s company), is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played for the Detroit Tigers, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, and Chicago Cubs of the Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1982 to 1995.

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Howard Johnson Stats | Baseball-Reference.com
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Career: 228 HR, .249 BA, 760 RBI, 3B/SS/OF, 2xAllStar, Mets/Tigers/… 1982-1995, b:B/t:R, 1x RBI Leader, born in FL 1960, HoJo

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HOJO HISTORY – HoJoLand.com
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HoJo’s History The year was 1925, the financial health of the nation was sound. Economists talked about an era of prosperity and the future seemed nothing but bright. However, the outlook for 27 year-old Howard Deering Johnson was not so bright.

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Howard Johnson: Host of the Highway – America Comes Alive
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Howard Johnson developed a business relationship with the Soffron Brothers Clam Company, established by four brothers in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1932. The primary clam used by Soffron was the soft-shell clam.

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Remembering Howard Johnson’s – Mr. Local History Project

Remembering Howard Johnson’s

Founded by Howard Deering Johnson, it was the largest restaurant chain in the U.S. throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with more than 1,000 combined company-owned and franchised outlets. Johnson wanted to expand his company, but the stock market crash of 1929 prevented this. Did anyone mention that he was a grade school dropout?

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The story behind Howard Johnson’s, a New England icon …
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16 août 2013I n the mid 1920’s Howard Johnson began producing a rich, creamy ice cream that had a doubled butterfat and was flavored with all natural ingredients with the important fact that the quality and…

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Howard Johnson Goes From 1 Restaurant to 1000 and Back …
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Howard Johnson’s traveled the arc of the American century: Born of the Roaring 1920s, walloped and nearly toppled during the Great Depression, resilient and lean during the war years, and booming again into the 1970s.

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The Last Howard Johnson’s Standing | Architect Magazine
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Howard Johnson’s was founded in Quincy, Mass., in 1925 by its namesake, Howard Deering Johnson, who grew the business rapidly throughout the mid-20th century to its peak in the 1970s with more than 1,000 locations across the country that together outsold McDonald’s, Burger King, and Kentucky Fried Chicken combined.

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Howard Johnson., 75, Founder Of the Restaurant Chain, Dead …
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21 juin 1972Howard Johnson, who gave the country 28 flavors of ice cream and a chain of restaurants to buy them from, died yesterday in Lenox Hill Hospitall. He was 75 years old and lived at 812 Fifth Avenue,…