Talk:Howard Johnson's
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[edit] The famous roof
I know at least in the North East the organge roof and spire were pretty notable... and I remember seeing a bunch die out and become local diners or whatnot. Does anyone have a picture of the old ones? because I think that's probably a good thing for this article... and does anyone else think that HoJo or HoJo's should link here? Because I remember them being commonly called that. gren 12:28, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
- By all means, add redirects for HoJo and HoJo's. Just create an article named HoJo and make the entire contents of the article be the single line
- #REDIRECT [[Howard Johnson's]]
- and similar for HoJo's. Dpbsmith (talk) 14:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
- REDIRECTHoward Johnson's==A Relatively Unknown Fact==HoJo Junction
As one of the company's last expansion effort, it opened a "short order" restaurant called HoJo Junction on A1A in North Miami Beach in the early seventies. The limited menu and limited seating restaurant was designed after the motor lodge office architecture, but it was a free-standing unit. Travis P. Dungan 16:29, 4 September 2007 (UTC) I am new to this and am unsure of protocol but my user name is Travisp and my email is travis@tpdungan.com. Please let me know if I have submitted improperly or screwed up anything.--This should probably go at the end of the paragraph on expansion before the paragraph on the "beginning of the end."Travis P. Dungan 16:29, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Ground Round
No mention of "The Ground Round" and "Red Coach Grill" concepts introduced by Howard Johnson's in the 1960's?
- It needs to go in there, but I unfortunately don't have the information on hand to do so. SchuminWeb (Talk) 21:43, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hotels in other countries
There are now also Howard Johnson hotels outside of the U.S., which could be mentioned in the article. I stayed in the Howard Johnson hotel in Xian China, which is a 5 star hotel that features extravagant use of granite/stone/glass everywhere--a vastly different experience than typical HJ hotels in the U.S. I don't know if that is common with all HJ operations in other countries or not.HOJO China news site -- Bovineone 02:25, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] My use of the {{fact}} tag
Regarding my use of the {{fact}} tag in the article, here's my concern:
It seems that the writer of the passage regarding Mr. Hostage is onto something, but I think that they have their facts wrong. From what I could find [1], Hostage never personally owned the company, but rather ran it while it was under Marriott's ownership. I just want to get a second opinion before fixing it, to make sure this agrees with what everyone else thinks first. SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
- If you go to this link, it will explain the relationship of Hojos and Michael Hostage. http://orangeroof.org/Massachusetts/Boston/SoutheastExpy/southeastexpy1.html
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- In any case, the tag is appropriate and a citation is needed. All Wikipedia content needs to be traceable to published sources, not just disputed content. When citing http://orangeroof.org/Massachusetts/Boston/SoutheastExpy/southeastexpy1.html, however, it probably needs to be made clear that this seems to be Richard Kummerlowe's personal opinion, and I'm not sure who he is or whether he qualifies as a reliable source. Dpbsmith (talk) 22:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] cleanup tag
While its content is helpful to an alert reader, this article is mostly a mess in terms of narrative flow and syntax. It reads more like a sloppy executive summary dictated by a careless, moderately articulate and somewhat opinionated executive. Gwen Gale 05:06, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
