Comments on: The Cinderella HoJo (Howard Johnson's), 500 Knox Abbot Drive: 2000s

By: Pinckney

Pinckney — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:47:44 +0000

Was a football stadium for BC ever approved for the property where the old Holiday Inn was on Knox Abbott?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:15:54 +0000

The Holiday Inn was across, and up the street from HOJo’s. I’m not sure when it closed but I worked there as a waitress starting in 1976. Had a good time being a college student and working there. Some of the bands that came through town stayed there, like Mothers Finest (if I remember correctly).

By: ted

ted — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:30:56 +0000

Well, Eckerd’s was good at failed strategies thus the vanishing of the chain..

I think one of those was at Sunset & North Main, and another on Taylor just above The Township

By: ChiefDanGeorge

ChiefDanGeorge — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:24:37 +0000

I don’t get this second boom of drugstore locations. Eckerds did this quite a few years ago and most of them seemed to fail. Seems the failed drugstores morph into Dollar Stores.

By: Lisa B.

Lisa B. — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:38:05 +0000

Progress, blah blah blah – - I still hate to see this go – & to be replaced w/ yet another drug store!!!! Blech – joke used to be that there was a starbux on every corner – now there is a drug store on just about every corner! I used to play on the grounds as a kid (parents worked long hours across the street) – they used to let the “local” kids swim there as long as we were quiet about it & didn’t let the paying guests know that we weren’t!!!

I know that it was getting oh so run down, but I still had “lottery” fantasies of buying & fixing the place up into a small business center, making the rooms over into small businesses or office spaces – ah well…. onward & upward :-p

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:00:53 +0000

re: The plaza really can’t afford to lose that anchor.

I don’t know I think it could work out for everybody. The hotel spot is a much bigger space so it’ll be one of those giant CVS like the one on Assembly. As far as Parkland plaza, while times are tough for finding a tenant for a such a large spot, I’m optimistic b/c of all the development in immediate vicinity, new CVS, that bank coming up near the bridge etc so I could see a national retailer smelling the opportunity

By: JP

JP — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:26:42 +0000

Great. Another fucking drug store.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:14:51 +0000

I guess “The Wicked Witch” goes with the fairy-tale theme of the Cinderella carriage..

I don’t suppose you have a scan of that ad?

By: Terry B

Terry B — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:33:10 +0000

The Ho-Jo Lounge…. also worthy of note to those interested in the old hotels… most all of them had a lounge as it seemed drinking was alot more accepted back in those days. The King of the Road had a lounge and the Ho-Jo had one as well…. it was a very small bar and was on the second floor of the hotel facing the State Street side (When the Regency took over, that room became the owners living area). The name of the lounge (as advertised in the “Key To Columbia” was called “The Wicked Witch Lounge” and they advertised to visit “Ruthie” in the “Wicked Witch Lounge” (I’m guessing that Ruthie was the bar manager)

By: Terry B

Terry B — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:20:23 +0000

The hotel across the street (from the Regency and Ho-Jo) was several… Yes it was in early years King Of The Road but lastly…. The Red Carpet Inn.