Howard Johnson's restaurants were once all over America. What happened?
At one time, Howard Johnson's restaurants were as ubiquitous in the American landscape as the McDonald's golden arches have become.
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At one time, Howard Johnson's restaurants were as ubiquitous in the American landscape as the McDonald's golden arches have become.
Champion once called the Rochester area home for more than 70 years, with headquarters first on Goodman Street and then in Pittsford.
Starting on June 3, the exhibit “Clarissa Uprooted: Unearthing Stories of Our Village (1940s-early 1970s)” will open in the RIT City Art Space. This show, created through a partnership between the Center for Teen Empowerment in Rochester and the Clarissa Street Reunion Committee, has involved a number of collaborators including RIT faculty and students from the College of Art and Design and the College of Liberal Arts.
Two Guys was an enormously popular discount department store in the Rochester area from the 1960s until the early 1980s.
Doll “doctor” Linda Greenfield ran the Buffalo Road business, which included a Victorian Doll Museum that showcased her collection of than 3,000 dolls.