{"id":24731,"date":"2022-06-03T17:55:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24731"},"modified":"2022-06-03T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T22:56:57","slug":"obit-watch-june-3-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24731","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 3, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Johnson<\/a>, actor. Other credits include “The Outer Limits” (the 2000-ish revival), several appearances on “CSI: Original Recipe”, and “The Robinsons: Lost in Space”.<\/p>\n

The last Howard Johnson’s<\/a>. But there’s a quibble:<\/p>\n

The Lake George, N.Y., location is closed, and the property is up for lease, listing agent Bill Moon of Exit Realty Empire Associates confirmed. However, Moon said, for the last several years, the restaurant wasn\u2019t operated as a \u201ctraditional Howard Johnson\u2019s experience.\u201d<\/a>
\n\u201cIt was a local lessee that was running a restaurant out of the Howard Johnson\u2019s building,\u201d he said.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Howard Johnson’s fried clams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apparently, there’s a Kindle edition of The Oranging of America and Other Stories<\/a><\/strong> by Max Apple. (The titular story is about Howard Johnson and his personal assistant. It is a fun collection. Affiliate link.)<\/p>\n

Ten Restaurants That Changed America<\/a><\/strong> by Paul Freedman. HoJo’s was one of them.<\/p>\n

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen<\/a><\/strong> by Jacques P\u00e9pin. Mr. P\u00e9pin worked for HoJo’s in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

“Eat My Globe” interview with Mr. P\u00e9pin<\/a>, which is notable for the following:<\/p>\n

…But the dish that everybody loved was the fried clams from Howard Johnson\u2019s.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brad Johnson, actor. Other credits include “The Outer Limits” (the 2000-ish revival), several appearances on “CSI: Original Recipe”, and “The Robinsons: Lost in Space”. The last Howard Johnson’s. But there’s a quibble: The Lake George, N.Y., location is closed, and the property is up for lease, listing agent Bill Moon of Exit Realty Empire Associates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,84,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-kindleing","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24733,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731\/revisions\/24733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}