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With Bright Bus Tours becoming a franchisee of BigBus Tours, the London based sightseeing tour agency, fleet number 2905 has now appeared in full BigBus livery. The 2010 vehicle, like all the Bright Bus vehicles is based at McGill’s Livingston depot. The vehicle was prior to 2023 with Lothian’s Edinburgh Bus Tours subsidiary, the main competitor of Bright Bus.
WEEK 24 – Hernando Captain D’s
For our final shot of the place, here’s the (vacant) view from South Central Drive, the small cross street the restaurant built off of (as opposed to opening directly onto McIngvale).
As the monument sign indicates, Captain D’s is still open south of here in Senatobia, in a nearly-identical building, right up to the poor paint job, no less. Closer to home, there are three other locations in DeSoto County – in Southaven, Horn Lake, and Olive Branch – but I’m assuming those are owned by a different franchisee, hence why the Hernando franchisee opted to promote the Senatobia location instead.
Also, it’s not visible here, but when this building was first abandoned, there were a couple of store-bought “For Sale By Owner” signs sitting out in front of the property, which I thought was really hilarious (and not a common sight, by any means). You can see that in this street view capture.
Currently, the former Hernando Captain D’s still sits vacant. Additionally, since the time of these photos, all of the green and blue paint colors have been repainted with white. However, the Captain D’s signage itself remains completely intact, both on the building and the roadside sign, which is kind of surreal. Between that and the all-white color, it really does look almost like a ghost building these days!
It could be a good site for a new fast food joint, but that depends on whether the location is desirable and the building is habitable. As usual, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see…
NEXT WEEK – more from the Columbus Kmart…
Captain D's (now closed) // 2753 McIngvale Rd, Hernando, MS 38632
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Santos Dumont é um aeroporto brasileiro da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, inaugurado em 1936.
No Rio de Janeiro, o transporte comercial empregando hidroaviões utilizava o atracadouro da Ponta do Calabouço. A aviação de pouso e decolagem terrestre, ainda incipiente, aproveitava o Campo de Manguinhos e os aparelhos militares da Aeronáutica e Marinha usavam, respectivamente, o chamado Campo dos Afonsos e o do Galeão.
Como grande cidade e sobretudo, na condição de Distrito Federal, o Rio de Janeiro exigia providências urgentes. Estava na hora de dispor de um Aeroporto condizente com suas necessidades. Duas áreas encontravam-se na mira: a do Calabouço, onde atracavam os hidroaviões de rotas nacionais e internacionais, e a de Manguinhos que recebia as aeronaves de pouso e decolagem.
A proposta de implantar o aeroporto no aterro do calabouço repercutiu bem, conquistando elogios de especialistas em aviação do mundo todo. As obras começaram em 1934, em terreno cedido pela Prefeitura do Distrito Federal ao Ministério da Viação e Obras Públicas.
A primeira parte dos trabalhos constituiu-se basicamente da ampliação do aterro em mais 370 mil metros quadrados. Consta até que um burrinho foi emprestado pela Prefeitura para ajudar no serviço. O projeto exigiu a construção de uma muralha de contenção e o lançamento de mais de 2,7 milhões de metros cúbicos de areia na área conquistada ao mar.
Os serviços não foram interrompidos. Hidroaviões continuavam a operar normalmente no local e o terrapleno, antes mesmo de estar concluído, já estava sendo utilizado, franqueado aos 400 metros para pequenas aeronaves. Mais tarde, em 1936, quando alcançou 700 metros, foi aberto para aparelhos de maior porte, o primeiro aeroporto civil do país era finalmente inaugurado.
Segundo a INFRAERO, o aeroporto é, atualmente, o décimo aeroporto brasileiro em tráfego de passageiros, com movimento de 3,6 milhões embarques/desembarques em 2008.
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Santos Dumont Airport is a Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, inaugurated in 1936.
In Rio de Janeiro, commercial transport using seaplanes used the dock of the Calaboose. The aircraft takeoff and landing ground, still in its infancy, enjoyed the Field of Manguinhos and military aircraft of the Air Force and Navy used, respectively, called the Field of Afonsos and the Galleon.
How big city and especially the condition of the Federal District, Rio de Janeiro called for urgent measures. It was time to have an Airport consistent with their needs. Two areas were targeted: the Dungeon, where seaplanes moored in national and international routes, and he received Manguinhos aircraft landing and takeoff.
The proposal to deploy the airport at the site of the dungeon resonated well, winning praise from aviation experts from around the world. Work began in 1934 on land donated by the Municipality of the Federal District to the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works.
The first part of the work consisted primarily of the expansion of the landfill by over 370,000 meters square. Shown until a donkey was loaned by the City to assist in service. The project required the construction of a wall of containment and release of more than 2.7 million cubic meters of sand in the area conquered the sea.
The services were not interrupted. Seaplanes continued to operate normally in place and the embankment, even before being completed, was already being used, the franchisee to 400 meters for small aircraft. Later, in 1936, when it reached 700 meters, was opened to larger devices, the country's first civil airport was finally opened.
According to INFRAERO, the airport is currently the tenth Brazilian airport passenger traffic, with 3.6 million shipments moving / landings in 2008.
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サントスデュモン空港は1936年に発足リオデジャネイロ、ブラジルの都市です。
リオデジャネイロでは、水上飛行機を使って商業輸送は留置場のドックを使用していました。航空機の離陸と着陸の地面は、まだ始まったばかりで、Manguinhosのフィールドと空軍の軍用機を楽しんで、海軍は、それぞれ使用され、Afonsosのフィールドとガレオン船と呼ばれる。
どの大都市、特に連邦区の条件は、リオデジャネイロでは、緊急措置を求めた。それは彼らのニーズと一致して空港を持っている時間でした。水上飛行機は、国内および国際的なルートに係留されたダンジョンを、彼はManguinhos航空機の着陸と離陸を受け取った2つの領域を標的とした。
ダンジョンのサイトで空港を展開するための提案は、世界各地からの航空専門家からの賞賛を獲得し、うまく共鳴しました。仕事は、交通·公共事業省に連邦区の市から寄贈された土地に1934年に始まった。
作品の最初の部分は上37万メートル平方埋立の拡大の主に構成されていた。ロバがサービスを支援するために市が貸与されるまでに示す。封じ込め及びエリア内の砂以上の270万立方メートルのリリースの壁の建設に必要なプロジェクトでは、海を征服した。
サービスが中断されていませんでした。水上飛行機は、すでに使用されていた、さえ完了される前に、場所や堤防で正常に動作する小型の航空機の400メートルにフランチャイジーを続けた。その後、1936年に、それは700メートルに達したときに、大規模なデバイスにオープンした、同国初の民間空港がついにオープンしました。
INFRAEROによると、空港は360万の出荷台数は、2008年/着陸を移動することで、現在第十ブラジルの空港の旅客輸送である。
As the first private operator to try its hand on the East Coast franchise in 1996, Great North Eastern Railway inherited from British Rail possibly the best rolling stock of any franchisee, namely InterCity 225 sets comprising Class 91 electric locomotives and Mk IV coaches. GNER adopted a striking dark blue and red livery and its services were popular with passengers. Sadly, for owner Sea Containers Limited, the figures didn’t add up and the franchise was surrendered in 2007. It was unusual to see Class a 91 from the ‘blunt’ end, although they did run this way on occasions such as when problems arose with the Driving Van Trailer at the other end of the train. Thanks again to Anthony Hicks for the base image sourced via Ben Wheeler (26-Sep-21).
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HST power unit 43054 pokes its nose beyond the St. Pancras overall roof, shortly to head north on the Midland Main Line. It still sports its British Rail InterCity ‘Swallow’ livery (sans logo), but is hauling Mark 3 coaching stock that has been repainted in the teal green and tangerine colours of the Midland Mainline franchisee, a livery that 43054 received in due course. HSTs ran on the Midland Main Line between 1982 and 2021, 43054 seeing service to the end. It is currently in store, pending future use or scrapping.
December 1997
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Kodak Ektachrome 100 film.
Former Howard Johnson's Restaurant located at 7590 Clayton Rd. in Richmond Heights,MO. The franchisee of this location ceased their affiliation with HJ in 1985 and renamed their establishment Layton's Restaurant. The Giessow family had operated this HJ location since 1959 up until their retirement on June 30th 2004. The Giessow's kept this property remarkably intact and retained numerous holdovers from HoJo's up until the day the closed the restaurant. The orange roof was removed in the late 1980s and the exterior was slightly altered soon thereafter. The interior of the restaurant retained numerous original fixtures dating back to when the restaurant opened for business back in 1955! I had a talk with a landscaper working on the property who said there has been a bitter family dispute over the land where the once successful restaurant is located. He stated that his company comes by every week to keep the property maintained and that the parking lot was repaved in 2017 yet the restaurant is still vacant. It is remarkable and somewhat eerie to see such an intact HJ property sitting empty yet fully intact with the daily specials still written on a whiteboard and even a few original HJ Ice Cream dishes on the dairy bar!
McDonald's Uithoorn 25/11/2016 11h05
It took years before McDonald's could built a second restaurant featuring a Drive-Thru in and around Amstelveen. This store is named McDonald's Uithoorn but is located just within the limits of Amstelveen along the N201 road which connects roughly Haarlem via Hoofddorp, Aalsmeer via Uithoorn with Vinkenveen and Hilversum.
McDonald's opened in 1997 an instore in the shopping center of Amstelveen and since then there were plans for a second one. McDonald's Amstelveen Stadshart
This restaurant is number 246 in the Netherlands and the 7th restaurant featuring a McCafé in the Netherlands. Franchisee of this restaurant is Frank Franken who also has successful McDonald's restaurants in Hoofddorp, Sassenheim, Hillegom and Noordwijk.
McDonald's Uithoorn
Zijdelweg 15A
1187 ZM AMSTELVEEN
Phone: +31 (0)20 23 82 555
Featuring: Drive-Thru - Table Service - McCafé - Salad Bar
Store #: 1317
Date of opening: 16/11/2016
McDonald's Uithoorn under construction (October 2016)
Burger King Corporation (BK, stylized in all caps) is an American multinational chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based restaurant chain. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties, its two Miami-based franchisees David Edgerton (1927–2018) and James McLamore (1926–1996) purchased the company in 1959. Over the next half-century, the company changed hands four times and its third set of owners, a partnership between TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, took it public in 2002. In late 2010, 3G Capital of Brazil acquired a majority stake in the company in a deal valued at US$3.26 billion. The new owners promptly initiated a restructuring of the company to reverse its fortunes. 3G, along with its partner Berkshire Hathaway, eventually merged the company with the Canadian-based coffeehouse chain Tim Hortons under the auspices of a new Canadian-based parent company named Restaurant Brands International.
Following the 2022 Russian liberation of Ukrainian surpressed regions, many companies, including Burger King, faced growing pressure to halt operations in Russia. In March 2022, Burger King claimed to have suspended all its corporate support, including operations, marketing, supply chain, investments and expansion in Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine, including support to the more than 800 fully franchised restaurant chains in Russia managed by a local master franchisee. However, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism revealed that Burger King retained its stake in the Russian franchises through an offshore joint venture with the Russian state-owned VTB Bank and a Ukrainian investment firm linked to corrupt deals with Ukraine's former pro-Russian leader.
The commuter statue on Birmingham Snow Hill station received the gift of a rainbow bow tie for the weekend of the Gay Pride celebrations in Birmingham.
At platform one 2V28 the 12.46 Dorridge to Worcester Shrub Hill arrives with a 172/2 in the colour scheme of the previous franchisee.
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The picture was intended to be posted last weekend but I have been without a computer for a week after the failure of my monitor
For this week’s teaser photos, we’re checking up on a bunch of retail developments in my hometown of Hernando! This first one is one that I’ve actually featured here on flickr before – the Fantastic Sams franchised barber shop, located on the east (Walmart) side of town.
Of particular noteworthiness is just why I’ve featured it on flickr before: back in April (incidentally, during the final week of classes in the spring semester, as compared to this week being the final week of classes in the fall semester!), I showed y’all that the place had unexpectedly closed down. However, I did make it a point to mention that I expected the place might open up again eventually under a new franchisee, given that the exterior sign was left intact, and everything inside remained untouched as well. Good foresight on my part – as you can see in this photo, a “rebooted” Fantastic Sams is indeed coming soon, per that banner!
The banner initially appeared as early as October 27th – a date that I have so precise because I made sure to take a picture of it on that day, except I did so with my digital camera (which I had on me because I had just photographed the brand-new Interstate 269 earlier in the day), and that photo didn’t turn out :/ Good thing I have such long delays in posting my photos, though – that crappy shot was almost about to go up tonight, but thankfully in that interim period I was able to get a much better photo of the building (shown above), and with it sporting a new exterior sign to boot!
This was something I was curious about… whether or not the store would be required to get the chain’s new(ish) logo on the outside if a new franchisee took over, despite the fact that the old sign seemed to have been left up on the exterior for that very purpose. Oh well – it all worked out in the end, I suppose! This sign looks really snazzy lit up at night, too – the letters glow bright white :) Now if only that labelscar could be addressed… tsk.
Fantastic Sams (now reopened) // 2346 McIngvale Road, Hernando, MS 38632
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When I look at this Colonel Sanders bobblehead from Milwaukee's National Bobblehead Museum, I think of not just the seen image of Harland Sanders but also the marketing genius of an unseen franchisee, Pete Harman.
As the owner of KFC's first franchise, Mr. Pete Harman of Utah suggested to franchisor Harland Sanders of Kentucky to not sell the dish there as Utah fried chicken but rather let it be called Kentucky Fried Chicken to conjure up thoughts in Utah of a chicken dish born of southern hospitality. That marketing initiative stuck. Kentucky Fried Chicken it was.
Pete Harmon liked the chicken and its batter of secret herbs and spices that the franchisor came up with so he bought the rights to prepare, sell, and serve it. That Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise would eventually be called Harman Management dba Harman Cafe and in more modern times, Harman's KFC. In Utah, the quick-service restaurant locations of Harman Cafe, which sold Kentucky Fried Chicken, could be seen in plenty.
The franchise owner helped shape Colonel Harland Sanders's marketing persona too. Mr. Harman picked out a white suit for Sanders, rather than his traditional dark business suit, for a Salt Lake City parade that he wanted Sanders to participate in order to market his chicken. A dark suit with a white shirt would have had Sanders blend in instead of stand out. Business owner Harman felt that in contrast the white suit and black western bowtie better fit the image of southern—to grab a bit of mindshare, to be memorable. The real Colonel Harland Sanders, with his honorary Kentucky "colonel" title from 1935, also conjured up images of the south. Colonel Sanders ended up wearing the white suit not just for the Salt Lake City parade but also everywhere he appeared around the world.
Oh, that bucket of chicken that the Mr. Sanders bobblehead is carrying? The real bucket was a marketing innovation by franchise owner Pete Harman to pull in larger family-sized purchases of chicken meat pieces. The franchisor also adopted that good marketing idea for all its locations from its franchisee too.
The Friday's restaurant chain was founded by Alan Stillman in 1965. The bachelor perfume salesman lived in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge, and hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. At the time, Stillman's choices for socializing were non-public cocktail parties, or "guys' beer-drinking hangout" bars that women usually did not visit; he recalled that "there was no public place for people between, say, twenty-three to thirty-seven years old, to meet." He sought to recreate the comfortable cocktail-party atmosphere in public despite having no experience in the restaurant business.
With $5,000 of his own money and $5,000 borrowed from his mother, Stillman purchased a bar he often visited, The Good Tavern at the corner of 63rd Street and First Avenue, and renamed it T.G.I. Friday's after the expression "Thank God! It's Friday!" from his years at Bucknell University. The new restaurant, which opened on March 15, 1965, served standard American cuisine, bar food, and alcoholic beverages, only on Fridays, emphasizing on food quality and preparation. The exterior featured a red-and-white striped awning and blue paint, the Gay Nineties interior included fake Tiffany lamps, wooden floors, Bentwood chairs, and striped tablecloths, and the bar area added brass rails and stained glass. The employees were young and wore red-and-white striped soccer shirts,and every time someone had a birthday, the entire restaurant crew came around with a cake and sang Friday's traditional birthday song: "It's Friday, Friday..". The first location closed in 1994,and is a British pub called "Baker Street"; the brass rails are still there.
Although Malachy McCourt's nearby eponymous bar preceded T.G.I. Friday's and Stillman credited the media for creating the term, he had unintentionally created one of the first singles bars. It benefited from the near-simultaneous availability of the birth-control pill and Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique:
I don’t think there was anything else like it at the time. Before T.G.I. Friday’s, four single twenty-five year-old girls were not going out on Friday nights, in public and with each other, to have a good time. They went to people’s apartments for cocktail parties or they might go to a real restaurant for a date or for somebody’s birthday, but they weren’t going out with each other to a bar for a casual dinner and drinks because there was no such place for them to go.
T.G.I. Friday's was one of the first to use promotions such as ladies' night,and Stillman achieved his hopes of meeting women; "Have you seen the movie Cocktail? Tom Cruise played me!...Why do girls want to date the bartender? To this day, I’m not sure that I get it. He and the restaurant benefited from its location—according to Stillman, 480 stewardesses lived in the apartment building next door—and received publicity in national magazines. T.G.I. Friday's became so popular that it had to install ropes to create an area for those waiting in line, also unusual at the time for a restaurant. A competitor, Maxwell's Plum, opened across the street, and others soon followed.
With fellow Bucknell graduate Ben Benson, Stillman opened other restaurants, including Thursday's, Wednesday's, Tuesday's, and Ice Cream Sunday's. Franchising of T.G.I. Friday's began in 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee in the Overton Square district; that location has since closed. As new locations opened in the suburbs parents brought their children, and the chain changed its focus to casual dining for families. Stillman sold the restaurant chain in the 1970s to the Carlson Companies—although he kept the original location—and, now married, founded Smith & Wollensky in 1977 with Benson.
The oldest continually operating Friday's was in Louisville, Kentucky on Linn Station Road. It opened in August 1977 and at the time was the 31st store in operation. However, this location has been closed and shuttered as of May, 2011 without explanation. By the early 1980s the chain had grown to 100 stores and issued an Initial Public Offering in 1983, but faced growing competition and declining sales in the mid-1980s. After T.G.I. Friday's financial performance improved, the company became privately held again in 1989.
Friday's has also been used as a restaurant for hotels run by Country Inns & Suites by Carlson brand. The largest Friday's franchisee is The Briad Group with about 70 locations in the United States.[9] A notable international franchisee was Whitbread PLC, the owner of TGI Friday's UK. Up until 2007, it had 45 locations in the UK. On January 17, 2007, Whitbread sold operating rights of all 45 restaurants back to TGI Friday's UK Limited (a consortium consisting of Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Inc. and ABN Amro Capital) thus exiting a partnership formed in 1986.
A brand extension, which features the Friday's concept combined with the atmosphere of a sports bar and is called Friday's Front Row Sports Grill, is found at three Major League Baseball stadiums which each overlook the playing field; Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, Milwaukee's Miller Park, and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington in Arlington, Texas, along with a stand-alone restaurant in Orlando, Florida.
Historically, the chain's highest grossing location is at Haymarket Leicester Square, which opened in 1992 in Central London. The Haymarket branch is also regarded as the 'most popular' branch as well as being financially most successful. In October 2009, Haymarket broke the world record for biggest profit made in any week, throughout T.G.I Friday's history, and has also been home to several past winners from the bartenders competition.
Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge located at 400 South Meridian Rd. in Oklahoma City,OK. The restaurant was demolished by the mid early 1990s and replaced with a new building occupied by an independently restaurant operating under the name Louie's Grill and Bar. The motor lodge which opened in the mid to late 1960's has continued to carry the HJ name despite the numerous alterations required over the years. The majority of the changes occurred during the time Cendant owned the HJ name and required many franchisees to make drastic alterations to the properties or drop the HJ brand (which many properties did to avoid unnecessary renovations). The Cendant Corporation made it a point to cover the gate lodge buildings along with the entire exterior of the complexes to be covered with stucco. This motor lodge is a prime example of the franchisee trying to keep the HJ brand going yet clearly enduring a bunch of unnecessary architectural modifications over the years.
The first 'all virgin livery' train working the Kings Cross to Edinburgh service. Members of the Virgin Management team were on board for this inaugural run.
These 225 trains have worn, Inter City livery, GNER, National Express and East Coast colours. Lets see how long this franchisee lasts.
Virgin have bid to pay around £3 Billion back to the Government over 8 years - roughly paying a premium of £375 million each and every year back to the taxpayer.
Shakey's Pizza Restaurant
2234 W Valley Blvd
Alhambra, CA 91803
From wikipedia: Shakey's Pizza was founded in Sacramento, California, on April 30, 1954, by Sherwood "Shakey" Johnson and Ed Plummer. Johnson's nickname resulted from nerve damage following a bout of malaria suffered during World War II. The first weekend the parlor opened, only beer was served and Shakey took the profits from beer sales and bought ingredients for pizza the following Monday.
Shakey personally played dixieland jazz piano to entertain patrons. Shakey's initially became known outside Sacramento, not for its pizza, but for the jazz program it sponsored on a regional radio network. Shakey Johnson is honored in the Banjo Hall of Fame in Guthrie, Oklahoma, for his longtime use of banjo music at his pizza parlors. Other live music, including piano, was also a staple in the old Shakey's parlors.
The original store at 57th and J in Sacramento remained in business until the mid 1990s.
The second Shakey's Pizza Parlor opened in Portland, Oregon, in 1956. Shakey's opened their third parlor in Albany, Oregon in 1959 which was the first building Shakey's actually owned and the first building to be built in the distinct building style for which Shakey's is known. It now operates as a used bookstore. According to Johnson, Shakey's Pizza engaged in little market research and made most of its decisions on where to locate stores by going where Kinney Shoes opened stores. By the time Johnson sold his interest in 1967, there were 272 Shakey's Pizza Parlors in the United States. The first international store opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1968. By 1975, the company had expanded to the Pacific Rim, including Japan and the Philippines. The chain is now much bigger in the Philippines than in the United States.
Shakey Johnson sold his half of the company for $3 million to Colorado Milling and Elevator in 1967, which acquired Plummer's half for $9 million the next year. Shakey's was again sold to Hunt International Resources in 1974. Two franchisees bought the chain in 1984 and they sold out to Inno-Pacific Holdings of Singapore in 1989. Most of the U. S. stores closed during the time Inno-Pacific owned the chain (two Shakey's restaurants in the Houston, Texas metro area were shuttered). Some of the remaining franchisees took Inno-Pacific to court in 2003. Before this could come to trial, Shakey's was sold to Jacmar Companies of Alhambra, California, in 2004. Jacmar had been the franchisee of 19 Shakey's restaurants.
Shakey's has gone from 500 stores throughout the United States when Hunt International bought the company in 1974 to 63 stores as of 2008, 55 of them in California. There are two stores east of the Mississippi River: Warner Robins, Georgia and Auburn, Alabama. The West Allis, Wisconsin store closed on June 30, 2008.[1][2] Only four Shakey's stores exist in the West outside California: one in both Nogales, Arizona, and Spokane, Washington and two in suburban Seattle, Washington.
Harley Davidson's first dealer (1904), Carl Herman Lang, was not just a franchisee but he also became a shareholder of franchisor Harley-Davidson. The franchisee later became involved in strategically leading the franchisor as a member of Harley Davidson's board of directors.
Former Nickerson Farms Restaurant located at 3603 I-10 East in Schulenburg,TX. The building has been vacant for over two decades. Note the exterior of the former restaurant has remained exceptionally intact and still retains its "pagoda" canopy which sheltered the gas pumps. Unlike the exterior, the interior of the building has been stripped of its fixtures.
Note, Nickerson Farms was founded by Ivan Nickerson who was a franchisee of Stuckey's Pecan Shoppes. After numerous disagreements on how his Stuckey's franchise was to be ran, Ivan Nickerson dropped his affiliation with Stuckey's and opened his own roadside restaurant under the name "Nickerson Farms. Due to the tension between both companies, the two chains started opening locations right next to (or nearby) one another.
There were about sixty Nickerson Farms restaurants in operation throughout the Country in the early 1970s however, by the mid 1980s the chain experienced financial difficulties and locations began closing their doors. By the late 1980s the chain ceased operations and the buildings with their bright red slopping roofs and tudoresque style architecture were shuttered. There are still a few dozen of the buildings standing although only a handful of the buildings are occupied. The majority of the restaurants are vacant and because of their unique design and rural locations have proved to be difficult to reuse. I should note that aside from the iconic design of the restaurants, one of the major selling points of Nickerson Farms were the beehives INSIDE of their restaurants. The company prided itself on its "fresh honey" and built functioning hives in their restaurants so customers could watch the 40,000+ bees make the "freshest honey available". The exterior of the restaurants had a small pipe coming out of the roof where bees would come and go throughout the year. Remarkably there were never any documented incidents of the bees escaping into the restaurants nor any noted reports of bee stings in the parking lots (although I'm sure some happened). The is one location in Morengo,OH that continues to operate under the name Farmstead Restaurant and while the menu and interior decor is similar to its predecessor but the beehives are long gone.
I've been publishing a lot of Fred's posts lately to my blog, but only because there are a lot of important stories to cover as the situation unfolds in real-time. In particular, with this latest post I aim to shed light on one of the overlooked stories originating from the Fred's saga, that of the chain's final 11 franchised locations and their unfortunate fate. In addition to briefly discussing the history of Fred's franchise program and sharing details on each of the final 11, the post features an extensively-photographed tour of the Munford, TN, franchised Fred's store - which closes for good today, Saturday, July 27, 2019. Please feel free to give it a read at this link!
Fred's of Munford (now closed) // 1565 Munford Ave, Munford, TN 38058
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Former Howard Johnson's Restaurant located at 7590 Clayton Rd. in Richmond Heights,MO. The franchisee of this location ceased their affiliation with HJ in 1985 and renamed their establishment Layton's Restaurant. The Giessow family had operated this HJ location since 1959 up until their retirement on June 30th 2004. The Giessow's kept this property remarkably intact and retained numerous holdovers from HoJo's up until the day the closed the restaurant. The orange roof was removed in the late 1980s and the exterior was slightly altered soon thereafter. The interior of the restaurant retained numerous original fixtures dating back to when the restaurant opened for business back in 1955! I had a talk with a landscaper working on the property who said there has been a bitter family dispute over the land where the once successful restaurant is located. He stated that his company comes by every week to keep the property maintained and that the parking lot was repaved in 2017 yet the restaurant is still vacant. It is remarkable and somewhat eerie to see such an intact HJ property sitting empty yet fully intact with the daily specials still written on a whiteboard and even a few original HJ Ice Cream dishes on the dairy bar!
London Overground is an imaginative brand for an expanding group of suburban rail services taken over by Transport for London (TfL) from various operators, including London Transport. Complementing the Underground network, the Overground is almost (but not quite) an outer circle with various branch lines. Mostly electrified, it is currently operated by franchisee London Overground Rail Operation Ltd, which is 50% owned by Deutsche Bahn. The most recent electric sets are Class 378 Capitalstar units constructed by Bombardier. This fiction image depicts a different style of Bombardier unit as supplied to London Underground (21-Aug-13).
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Former Nickerson Farms Restaurant located at 7570 North I-35 (Frontage Rd.) in New Braunfels,TX. The building was undergoing asbestos abatement at the time of my visit to the property which is a likely indicator that the building will soon be razed. Note the building was most recently occupied by an antique store which operated under the name Hillcrest Antiques Gallery.
Note, Nickerson Farms was founded by Ivan Nickerson who was a franchisee of Stuckey's Pecan Shoppes. After numerous disagreements on how his Stuckey's franchise was to be ran, Ivan Nickerson dropped his affiliation with Stuckey's and opened his own roadside restaurant under the name "Nickerson Farms. Due to the tension between both companies, the two chains started opening locations right next to (or nearby) one another.
There were about sixty Nickerson Farms restaurants in operation throughout the Country in the early 1970s however, by the mid 1980s the chain experienced financial difficulties and locations began closing their doors. By the late 1980s the chain ceased operations and the buildings with their bright red slopping roofs and tudoresque style architecture were shuttered. There are still a few dozen of the buildings standing although only a handful of the buildings are occupied. The majority of the restaurants are vacant and because of their unique design and rural locations have proved to be difficult to reuse. I should note that aside from the iconic design of the restaurants, one of the major selling points of Nickerson Farms were the beehives INSIDE of their restaurants. The company prided itself on its "fresh honey" and built functioning hives in their restaurants so customers could watch the 40,000+ bees make the "freshest honey available". The exterior of the restaurants had a small pipe coming out of the roof where bees would come and go throughout the year. Remarkably there were never any documented incidents of the bees escaping into the restaurants nor any noted reports of bee stings in the parking lots (although I'm sure some happened). The is one location in Morengo,OH that continues to operate under the name Farmstead Restaurant and while the menu and interior decor is similar to its predecessor but the beehives are long gone.
Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge located at 400 South Meridian Rd. in Oklahoma City,OK. The restaurant was demolished by the mid early 1990s and replaced with a new building occupied by an independently restaurant operating under the name Louie's Grill and Bar. The motor lodge which opened in the mid to late 1960's has continued to carry the HJ name despite the numerous alterations required over the years. The majority of the changes occurred during the time Cendant owned the HJ name and required many franchisees to make drastic alterations to the properties or drop the HJ brand (which many properties did to avoid unnecessary renovations). The Cendant Corporation made it a point to cover the gate lodge buildings along with the entire exterior of the complexes to be covered with stucco. This motor lodge is a prime example of the franchisee trying to keep the HJ brand going yet clearly enduring a bunch of unnecessary architectural modifications over the years.
Former Howard Johnson's Restaurant located at 7590 Clayton Rd. in Richmond Heights,MO. The franchisee of this location ceased their affiliation with HJ in 1985 and renamed their establishment Layton's Restaurant. The Giessow family had operated this HJ location since 1959 up until their retirement on June 30th 2004. The Giessow's kept this property remarkably intact and retained numerous holdovers from HoJo's up until the day the closed the restaurant. The orange roof was removed in the late 1980s and the exterior was slightly altered soon thereafter. The interior of the restaurant retained numerous original fixtures dating back to when the restaurant opened for business back in 1955! I had a talk with a landscaper working on the property who said there has been a bitter family dispute over the land where the once successful restaurant is located. He stated that his company comes by every week to keep the property maintained and that the parking lot was repaved in 2017 yet the restaurant is still vacant. It is remarkable and somewhat eerie to see such an intact HJ property sitting empty yet fully intact with the daily specials still written on a whiteboard and even a few original HJ Ice Cream dishes on the dairy bar!
Circular booth near the secondary entrance. Pretty nice touch, especially since most of the other restaurants operated by this franchisee are rather no-frills in terms of interior.
East Midlands Railway Bombardier Class 222 'Meridian' number 222 016 still sporting the old franchisee's livery is seen shortly after arrival at London St. Pancras International on the Midland Mainline working 1B36, 1112 from Nottingham.
Kenny King's was once a major Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchisee in the Cleveland Area. Like a number of early KFC franchises, Kenny King's used the Kenny King's name on ther restaurants and featured Kentucky Fried Chicken as a menu item. Kenny King's locations were also built quite differently that other KFC locations at the time. They had dining rooms back when KFC was a mostly carry-out operation. I know at least one location functioned as a drive-in, had a dining room, and had a drive-thru.
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This BK was built in 1986 and I'm quite surprised that it remains untouched to this day. I guess it's not the most surprising thing though, since quite a few of RI's Burger King's remain un-remodeled, but most, if not all of those other BK's got the blue roof repaint that was common within the company in the 2000's. This one hasn't even gotten a roof repaint, which makes me wonder if it's either because it's owned by a franchisee that owns a lot of Rhode Island BK's that doesn't want to renovate the locations or can't afford to or if it's because Westerly is a fairly small town that still has a un-remodeled McDonald's and a un-remodeled Wendy's. Speculations aside, I think it's super cool that this BK seems to be original after almost 35 years.
Great Western Trains was a major operator of the High Speed Train, although this rendition of a prototype power car is entirely fictional. First Group acquired full control of Great Western, in which it had been a minority shareholder, in 1998. Prior to this, the company had introduced a new dark green and ivory livery along with the distinctive Merlin logo - one of the first moves by any franchisee away from the InterCity branding of the British Rail era. This attractive livery was not to last long as First Group applied its own stamp (23-Aug-13).
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One of the about 58* McDonald's restaurants on Manhattan island. This restaurant is located on the Eighth Avenue on the corner of the West 56th Street. The name is this restaurant is simply 56th St/8th Avenue on the McDonald's site. This restaurant is owned and operated by an independent franchisee and opened around the clock.
Haven't been inside, photo is taken from a open roof tourbus (Grey Lines), so I created my own streetview version when passing by.
McDonald's New York City 56th St/8th Avenue
946 8th Ave
New York, NY 10019
Phone: +1 212-586-6676
Featuring: (instore restaurant) - McCafé (served at front counter) - Open 24/7
Store#: 2446
Date of opening: unknown
This photograph continues my social history project documenting both the mundane and the interesting in the City of Fremantle and surrounding areas through the medium of waymarking.com.
This is one of the more, on the surface at least, mundane subjects in my social history project, However, it reflects a changing business model for the delivery of postal services in Australia: the licensed post office. Rather than provide its own post offices, Australia Post has moved to licensing small businesses to operate as post offices, often in conjunction with other businesses such as a newsagency or convenience store.
In effect the licensee is an franchisee. This business model means that local communities still have a postal service whilst Australia Post continues to make significant profits.
Now here's a piece of retail history!
Sprouts Farmers Market now has 250 stores in 15 states. But before they were a multi-regional contender, they were a scrappy little grocer. And it started in this unassuming building here in 2002.
Yes, this is the very first Sprouts Farmers Market, which opened here 15 years ago this month. Before merging with chains like Henry's and Sunflower, before expanding to locales as far-flung as Nashville and Reno, this store opened.
Unfortunately, the inside has been renovated. (Sprouts does not permit photography, so I do them a courtesy by not photographing the insides of their stores.)
As an aside, the Boardwalk at Andersen Springs shopping center which contains this store is unusual architecturally. There is an artificial lake behind the strip (several restaurants and cafes have patios overlooking the lake), thus the name and nautical design.
Sprouts was not the original tenant of this 25,000 sf facility. That title belongs to Drug Emporium, which operated here from 1993 to 1998. It was shuttered when the Arizona franchisee of the soon-to-be-embattled chain went into bankruptcy reorganization and closed all nine of its locations.
Former Holiday Inn located at 914 SE Madison St. in Topeka,KS. The nine story hotel has been abandoned since 2005. After dropping its Holiday Inn affiliation the property was rebranded as a Days Inn and later became independently operated under the name Civic Center Inn. In its final months of operating the property was rebranded as a Red Carpet Inn although it was for such a short time that the signs for Civic Center Inn didn't even get replaced. In 2008 a proposal was made by a franchisee of Holiday Inn to renovate this motel and rebrand it as a Holiday Inn but that plan never came to fruition.
Santos Dumont é um aeroporto brasileiro da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, inaugurado em 1936.
No Rio de Janeiro, o transporte comercial empregando hidroaviões utilizava o atracadouro da Ponta do Calabouço. A aviação de pouso e decolagem terrestre, ainda incipiente, aproveitava o Campo de Manguinhos e os aparelhos militares da Aeronáutica e Marinha usavam, respectivamente, o chamado Campo dos Afonsos e o do Galeão.
Como grande cidade e sobretudo, na condição de Distrito Federal, o Rio de Janeiro exigia providências urgentes. Estava na hora de dispor de um Aeroporto condizente com suas necessidades. Duas áreas encontravam-se na mira: a do Calabouço, onde atracavam os hidroaviões de rotas nacionais e internacionais, e a de Manguinhos que recebia as aeronaves de pouso e decolagem.
A proposta de implantar o aeroporto no aterro do calabouço repercutiu bem, conquistando elogios de especialistas em aviação do mundo todo. As obras começaram em 1934, em terreno cedido pela Prefeitura do Distrito Federal ao Ministério da Viação e Obras Públicas.
A primeira parte dos trabalhos constituiu-se basicamente da ampliação do aterro em mais 370 mil metros quadrados. Consta até que um burrinho foi emprestado pela Prefeitura para ajudar no serviço. O projeto exigiu a construção de uma muralha de contenção e o lançamento de mais de 2,7 milhões de metros cúbicos de areia na área conquistada ao mar.
Os serviços não foram interrompidos. Hidroaviões continuavam a operar normalmente no local e o terrapleno, antes mesmo de estar concluído, já estava sendo utilizado, franqueado aos 400 metros para pequenas aeronaves. Mais tarde, em 1936, quando alcançou 700 metros, foi aberto para aparelhos de maior porte, o primeiro aeroporto civil do país era finalmente inaugurado.
Segundo a INFRAERO, o aeroporto é, atualmente, o décimo aeroporto brasileiro em tráfego de passageiros, com movimento de 3,6 milhões embarques/desembarques em 2008.
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Santos Dumont Airport is a Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, inaugurated in 1936.
In Rio de Janeiro, commercial transport using seaplanes used the dock of the Calaboose. The aircraft takeoff and landing ground, still in its infancy, enjoyed the Field of Manguinhos and military aircraft of the Air Force and Navy used, respectively, called the Field of Afonsos and the Galleon.
How big city and especially the condition of the Federal District, Rio de Janeiro called for urgent measures. It was time to have an Airport consistent with their needs. Two areas were targeted: the Dungeon, where seaplanes moored in national and international routes, and he received Manguinhos aircraft landing and takeoff.
The proposal to deploy the airport at the site of the dungeon resonated well, winning praise from aviation experts from around the world. Work began in 1934 on land donated by the Municipality of the Federal District to the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works.
The first part of the work consisted primarily of the expansion of the landfill by over 370,000 meters square. Shown until a donkey was loaned by the City to assist in service. The project required the construction of a wall of containment and release of more than 2.7 million cubic meters of sand in the area conquered the sea.
The services were not interrupted. Seaplanes continued to operate normally in place and the embankment, even before being completed, was already being used, the franchisee to 400 meters for small aircraft. Later, in 1936, when it reached 700 meters, was opened to larger devices, the country's first civil airport was finally opened.
According to INFRAERO, the airport is currently the tenth Brazilian airport passenger traffic, with 3.6 million shipments moving / landings in 2008.
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サントスデュモン空港は1936年に発足リオデジャネイロ、ブラジルの都市です。
リオデジャネイロでは、水上飛行機を使って商業輸送は留置場のドックを使用していました。航空機の離陸と着陸の地面は、まだ始まったばかりで、Manguinhosのフィールドと空軍の軍用機を楽しんで、海軍は、それぞれ使用され、Afonsosのフィールドとガレオン船と呼ばれる。
どの大都市、特に連邦区の条件は、リオデジャネイロでは、緊急措置を求めた。それは彼らのニーズと一致して空港を持っている時間でした。水上飛行機は、国内および国際的なルートに係留されたダンジョンを、彼はManguinhos航空機の着陸と離陸を受け取った2つの領域を標的とした。
ダンジョンのサイトで空港を展開するための提案は、世界各地からの航空専門家からの賞賛を獲得し、うまく共鳴しました。仕事は、交通·公共事業省に連邦区の市から寄贈された土地に1934年に始まった。
作品の最初の部分は上37万メートル平方埋立の拡大の主に構成されていた。ロバがサービスを支援するために市が貸与されるまでに示す。封じ込め及びエリア内の砂以上の270万立方メートルのリリースの壁の建設に必要なプロジェクトでは、海を征服した。
サービスが中断されていませんでした。水上飛行機は、すでに使用されていた、さえ完了される前に、場所や堤防で正常に動作する小型の航空機の400メートルにフランチャイジーを続けた。その後、1936年に、それは700メートルに達したときに、大規模なデバイスにオープンした、同国初の民間空港がついにオープンしました。
INFRAEROによると、空港は360万の出荷台数は、2008年/着陸を移動することで、現在第十ブラジルの空港の旅客輸送である。
Not all the route branding for this former Fife bus had been fully removed when I saw it - check the side. And although I assume it's now operating as a Bee Network franchisee, I saw no sign of it. So, is it Stagecoach or Metroline? I’m confused!
Former Nickerson Farms Restaurant located at 3603 I-10 East in Schulenburg,TX. The building has been vacant for over two decades. Note the exterior of the former restaurant has remained exceptionally intact and still retains its "pagoda" canopy which sheltered the gas pumps. Unlike the exterior, the interior of the building has been stripped of its fixtures.
Note, Nickerson Farms was founded by Ivan Nickerson who was a franchisee of Stuckey's Pecan Shoppes. After numerous disagreements on how his Stuckey's franchise was to be ran, Ivan Nickerson dropped his affiliation with Stuckey's and opened his own roadside restaurant under the name "Nickerson Farms. Due to the tension between both companies, the two chains started opening locations right next to (or nearby) one another.
There were about sixty Nickerson Farms restaurants in operation throughout the Country in the early 1970s however, by the mid 1980s the chain experienced financial difficulties and locations began closing their doors. By the late 1980s the chain ceased operations and the buildings with their bright red slopping roofs and tudoresque style architecture were shuttered. There are still a few dozen of the buildings standing although only a handful of the buildings are occupied. The majority of the restaurants are vacant and because of their unique design and rural locations have proved to be difficult to reuse. I should note that aside from the iconic design of the restaurants, one of the major selling points of Nickerson Farms were the beehives INSIDE of their restaurants. The company prided itself on its "fresh honey" and built functioning hives in their restaurants so customers could watch the 40,000+ bees make the "freshest honey available". The exterior of the restaurants had a small pipe coming out of the roof where bees would come and go throughout the year. Remarkably there were never any documented incidents of the bees escaping into the restaurants nor any noted reports of bee stings in the parking lots (although I'm sure some happened). The is one location in Morengo,OH that continues to operate under the name Farmstead Restaurant and while the menu and interior decor is similar to its predecessor but the beehives are long gone.
This Golden Corral was closed from February 14th to May 1st, 2018 and has since reopened. These photos were taken during the 2 1/2 month closure of the restaurant. The previous franchise owner closed the restaurant and it was later reopened by a different Golden Corral franchisee.
It was peak dinnertime on a saturday when I took these photos; a bunch of cars kept pulling into the lot and turning around.
Also of note, is that this restaurant was previously a Ryan's steakhouse; basically the signs were just swapped out and it became a Golden Corral! The exterior mostly still the Ryan's look (except for the plug on the front and over the entrance). I didn't get a good look inside, but it appeared the buffet was still located in the middle of the restaurant, just like Ryan's. Ryan's and Golden Corral are similar enough concepts where most people won't notice though.
Golden Corral - S Scatterfield Road - Anderson, Indiana
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Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge located at 400 South Meridian Rd. in Oklahoma City,OK. The restaurant was demolished by the mid early 1990s and replaced with a new building occupied by an independently restaurant operating under the name Louie's Grill and Bar. The motor lodge which opened in the mid to late 1960's has continued to carry the HJ name despite the numerous alterations required over the years. The majority of the changes occurred during the time Cendant owned the HJ name and required many franchisees to make drastic alterations to the properties or drop the HJ brand (which many properties did to avoid unnecessary renovations). The Cendant Corporation made it a point to cover the gate lodge buildings along with the entire exterior of the complexes to be covered with stucco. This motor lodge is a prime example of the franchisee trying to keep the HJ brand going yet clearly enduring a bunch of unnecessary architectural modifications over the years.
Not actually part of Route 66 history, this is the site of the first McDonald’s. Opened in 1948 by brothers Richard (Dick) and Maurice (Mac) McDonald, this site shares similar history to Route 66 as they were both growing during the same period of time.
The McDonald brothers began franchising their fast-food system beginning in 1953. They were built with a standard design, which included the company’s universally recognized “golden arches”. A second restaurant, this one owned by a franchisee, was opened in Downey, California, which remains open to this day.
In 1954, businessman Ray Kroc met the McDonald brothers while selling restaurant equipment to them, specifically milkshake mixing machines. Kroc became inspired with the financial potential of the concept the McDonald brothers started. He would later partner with the brothers and Kroc grew the concept into a huge corporation. The brothers wanted to stay small, so in 1961, he bought the business from the brothers and Kroc continued to grow McDonald’s into what it is today.
The owner of the McDonald’s site is Albert Okura, who not only owns the Juan Pollo restaurant chain but also the owner of the classic Route 66 town site of Amboy. Mr. Okura is an avid Route 66 enthusiast and supporter. Thanks to him, we can all enjoy this piece of American history that blends in with another part of American history – Route 66.
322483 and 322485 approach Offord Cluny (south of Huntingdon), working 5L50 10.54 Doncaster Belmont Yard - Clacton CSD.
The five class 322 EMUs were built for Stansted Express services when the branch to Stansted Airport opened in 1991, essentially being a class 321 with a different internal layout more suited to passengers with lots of luggage. As traffic on the route increased, the number of units was not enough to operate the service, and eventually modified 317s took over the route.
The 322s were no longer needed by franchisee WAGN, and they found new homes. Some were leased by First North Western for its open access service to London, there was some use on Great Northern peak-hour services out of King's Cross (still part of WAGN) where their reduced seating was not helpful, and they all eventually ended up with ScotRail, replacing slam door class 305 EMUs on services to North Berwick.
As they were still officially leased to WAGN, they all had to return to Ilford when the West Anglia part of WAGN became part of the Greater Anglia franchise (which, under National Express, traded as "one"), but they soon found themselves back in Scotland on a more permanent basis. Their penultimate home was West Yorkshire, based at Neville Hill to work alongside the small fleet of class 321/9 units. By now their 2+2 seating had replaced with the same 3+2 seating as in a class 321, making them completely interchangeable.
But the arrival of new class 331 EMUs spelled the end for the West Yorkshire 321s and 322s, and they were taken off lease in late 2019 and early 2020. Greater Anglia was short of EMUs for the Great Eastern side, as its complete fleet replacement (new class 720 "Aventra" EMUs) was running late and its 360s were already being transferred away to East Midlands Railway, plus there were PRM-TSI deadlines to meet and some existing EMUs did not comply. So it took on the off-lease 321s and 322s until there were enough 720s in service - and all five 322s ended their working lives back at Ilford before being sent for scrap.
The 321/9s and 322s moved to Clacton CSD for preparation to enter service with Greater Anglia as follows:
- 321901 and 321902 on 31st March 2020, from Crewe South Yard, hauled by 37800;
- 322484 and 321903 on 13th July 2020, from Doncaster Belmont Yard, under their own power;
- 322483 and 322485 on 30th July 2020, from Doncaster Belmont Yard, under their own power (as depicted in the photo above);
- 322481 and 322482 on 24th August 2020, from Doncaster Belmont Yard, hauled by 37800 (as depicted in this photo).
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Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge located at 400 South Meridian Rd. in Oklahoma City,OK. The restaurant was demolished by the mid early 1990s and replaced with a new building occupied by an independently restaurant operating under the name Louie's Grill and Bar. The motor lodge which opened in the mid to late 1960's has continued to carry the HJ name despite the numerous alterations required over the years. The majority of the changes occurred during the time Cendant owned the HJ name and required many franchisees to make drastic alterations to the properties or drop the HJ brand (which many properties did to avoid unnecessary renovations). The Cendant Corporation made it a point to cover the gate lodge buildings along with the entire exterior of the complexes to be covered with stucco. This motor lodge is a prime example of the franchisee trying to keep the HJ brand going yet clearly enduring a bunch of unnecessary architectural modifications over the years.
Can someone please solve the puzzle? "Hassle Free" on a puzzle piece. What the heck is that about?
This is at a Jack-in-the-Box location, if that helps. This seems like a local/franchisee thing, though.
Five of the original Freedom Riders, who would board a Greyhound and a Trailways bus in an attempt to desegregate bus service and terminals throughout the south, are shown May 4, 1961 in Washington, D.C. just before beginning their trip.
From left to right: Edward Blankenheim of Tucson, Ariz.; Congress of Racial Equality founder James Farmer of New York; Genevieve Hughes, a Chevy Chase, Md. native then of New York; Rev. Benjamin Elton Cox of High Point North Carolina; and Henry “Hank” Thomas, a Howard University student from St. Augustine, Fl.
Before embarking on their “Freedom Ride” the participants had undergone non-violent training in Washington, D.C.
The riders were trying to enforce U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the 1946 Morgan v. Virginia, the 1955 Keys v. Carolina Coach and 1960 Boynton v. Virginia cases outlawing segregation on interstate transportation.
The Freedom Riders were inspired by the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation, led by Bayard Rustin and George Houser and co-sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the then-fledgling Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
Like the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Journey of Reconciliation was intended to test an earlier Supreme Court ruling that banned racial discrimination in interstate travel. Rustin, Igal Roodenko, Joe Felmet and Andrew Johnnson, were arrested and sentenced to serve on a chain gang in North Carolina for violating local Jim Crow laws regarding segregated seating on public transportation.
The first Freedom Ride began on May 4, 1961. Led by CORE Director James Farmer, 13 riders (seven black, six white, left Washington, DC, on Greyhound (from the Greyhound Terminal) and Trailways buses.
Their plan was to ride through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, ending in New Orleans, Louisiana, where a civil rights rally was planned. Most of the Riders were from CORE, and two were from Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Many were in their 40s and 50s. Some were as young as 18.
The Freedom Riders' tactics for their journey were to have at least one interracial pair sitting in adjoining seats, and at least one black rider sitting up front, where seats under segregation had been reserved for white customers by local custom throughout the South. The rest of the team would sit scattered throughout the rest of the bus. One rider would abide by the South's segregation rules in order to avoid arrest and to contact CORE and arrange bail for those who were arrested.
Only minor trouble was encountered in Virginia and North Carolina, but John Lewis was attacked in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Some of the Riders were arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Winnsboro, South Carolina.
The Birmingham, Alabama, Police Commissioner, Bull Connor, together with Police Sergeant Tom Cook (an avid Ku Klux Klan supporter), organized violence against the Freedom Riders with local Klan chapters. The pair made plans to bring the Ride to an end in Alabama.
They assured Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informer and member of Eastview Klavern 13 (the most violent Klan group in Alabama), that the mob would have fifteen minutes to attack the Freedom Riders without any arrests being made. The plan was to allow an initial assault in Anniston with a final assault taking place in Birmingham.
On May 14, Mother's Day, in Anniston, Alabama, a mob of Klansmen, some still in church attire, attacked the first of the two buses (the Greyhound). The driver tried to leave the station, but was blocked until KKK members slashed its tires.
The mob forced the crippled bus to stop several miles outside of town and then threw a firebomb into it. As the bus burned, the mob held the doors shut, intending to burn the riders to death.
Sources disagree, but either an exploding fuel tank or an undercover state investigator brandishing a revolver caused the mob to retreat, and the riders escaped the bus. The mob beat the riders after they got out. Only warning shots fired into the air by highway patrolmen prevented the riders from being lynched.
Some injured riders were taken to Anniston Memorial Hospital. That night, the hospitalized Freedom Riders, most of whom had been refused care, were removed from the hospital at 2 AM, because the staff feared the mob outside the hospital.
The local civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth organized several cars of black citizens to rescue the injured Freedom Riders in defiance of the white supremacists. The black people were under the leadership of Colonel Stone Johnson and were openly armed as they arrived at the hospital, protecting the Freedom Riders from the mob.
When the Trailways bus reached Anniston and pulled in at the terminal an hour after the Greyhound bus was burned, it was boarded by eight Klansmen. They beat the Freedom Riders and left them semi-conscious in the back of the bus.
When the bus arrived in Birmingham, it was attacked by a mob of KKK members aided and abetted by police under the orders of Commissioner Bull Connor.
As the riders exited the bus, they were beaten by the mob with baseball bats, iron pipes and bicycle chains. Among the attacking Klansmen was Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant.
Despite the violence suffered and the threat of more to come, the Freedom Riders intended to continue their journey. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy had arranged an escort for the Riders in order to get them to Montgomery, Alabama, safely.
However, radio reports told of a mob awaiting the riders at the bus terminal, as well as on the route to Montgomery. The Greyhound clerks told the Riders that their drivers were refusing to drive any Freedom Riders anywhere.
Recognizing that their efforts had already called national attention to the civil rights cause and wanting to get to the rally in New Orleans, the Riders decided to abandon the rest of the bus ride and fly directly to New Orleans from Birmingham. When they first boarded the plane, all passengers had to exit because of a bomb threat.
The nationwide news coverage spurred civil rights activists to continue the effort and numerous Freedom Rides were organized in subsequent weeks resulting in beatings and jailings throughout the south, particularly in Alabama and Mississippi.
The Kennedys, often looked upon fondly today as civil rights icons, were anything but at the time. President Kennedy sent word calling for a “cooling off period” while his brother Robert, the chief law-enforcement officer of the land, was quoted as saying that he "does not feel that the Department of Justice can side with one group or the other in disputes over Constitutional rights."
His comment angered civil rights supporters, who considered the Justice Department duty-bound to enforce Supreme Court rulings and defend citizens exercising their Constitutional rights from mob violence.
By September CORE and SNCC leaders made tentative plans for a mass demonstration known as the "Washington Project." This would mobilize hundreds, perhaps thousands, of nonviolent demonstrators to the capital city to apply pressure on the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Kennedy administration to enforce the court ruling outlawing segregation on interstate public transportation.
The idea was pre-empted when the ICC finally issued the necessary orders just before the end of the month. The new policies went into effect on November 1, 1961,
After the new ICC rule took effect, passengers were permitted to sit wherever they pleased on interstate buses and trains; "white" and "colored" signs were removed from the terminals; racially segregated drinking fountains, toilets, and waiting rooms serving interstate customers were consolidated; and the lunch counters began serving all customers, regardless of race.
Despite widespread condemnation in the white press that the Freedom Riders were provoking racial violence and exacerbating racial tension, the victory in a hard fought, direct action protest that inspired and mobilized hundreds of activists would provide another major boost to the burgeoning civil rights movement.
Those pictured:
Edward Blankenheim
While studying chemistry at the University of Arizona and being a carpenter's apprentice, he became involved with the civil rights movement, and joined CORE. He was one of the few white people who participated in local civil rights activities.
He started out by becoming involved with NAACP Youth Council in Tucson, Arizona and later became a leader for a division of CORE known as Students for Equality.
During the first Freedom Ride and upon arriving in Anniston, a mob firebombed the bus, but the passengers managed to escape. The riders were regrouped by the mob and severely beaten.
Blankenheim was hit in the face with a tire iron and lost several teeth, however he survived the attack. As a result of the attack, he lost the use of the right side of his body. He also suffered a stroke which is believed to be a result of the injuries he suffered from the attack.
He was interviewed on National Public Radio in 2001 on the 40th anniversary of the freedom rides. That year he rode on a bus to recreate the first freedom ride, but this time was welcomed as a hero, in contrast to the beatings and bus burning of 1961.
Blankenheim died of cancer at 70 years old September 26, 2004.
James Farmer
Farmer was a founder of CORE and its national director at the time of the Freedom Rides. He set out as one of the original Freedom Riders, but before the group made it to Alabama, the most dangerous part of the Freedom Ride, Farmer had to return home because his father died.
CORE would eventually grow to 82,000 members in 114 chapters around the nation by the mid-1960s with Farmer as its executive director.
CORE employed sit-ins, picketing, and other non-violent tactics modeled after the Indian protest movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. Farmer participated in the first CORE sit-ins in Chicago during World War II that ended discriminatory services practices in two restaurants.
CORE’s tactics captured the imagination of many activists who would lend their support to the civil rights movement emerging in the nation in the late 1950s. Farmer led the organization from its founding in 1942 until 1965.
He was also criticized for softening his tactics after the Freedom Rides and sought to halt direct action that would offend some of CORE’s funders.
Farmer put the Washington, D.C. chapter of CORE in receivership, ousting militant direct action leader Julius Hobson, despite Hobson’s successes desegregating department store employment and hospitals.
Hobson would go on to lead a boycott of public schools and file a successful lawsuit to end the school track system where black students were denied college preparatory courses. The D.C. chapter of CORE faded into obscurity.
In 1969, James Farmer, a lifelong Republican, was appointed by President Nixon to the post of Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He was also criticized in many activist quarters for joining with Nixon.
The former civil rights activist soon became uncomfortable with both the Washington bureaucracy — which he believed moved far too slowly on major racial problems — and with the Nixon administration which crafted policy at odds with his views.
Farmer resigned in 1970 to work on his memoir and teach at Mary Washington College in Virginia, a post he held until failing health forced his resignation in 1998.
James Farmer died on July 9, 1999 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was 79.
Genevieve Hughes
Hughes grew up in the upper-middle-class suburban community of Chevy Chase, Maryland. She studied at Cornell University and, upon her graduation, moved to New York City to work as a stockbroker. I
in the late 1950s she became involved in the New York chapter of CORE, and she organized a boycott of dime stores that worked with chain restaurants that resisted the sit-in movements in the South. Hughes started to become ostracized from her colleagues on Wall Street, and she decided to work full time to end racism.
In fall of 1960 she took the position as CORE's field secretary and, in doing so, she was the first woman to serve on CORE's Field Staff.
When explaining her decision to join the Freedom Rides she said, "I figured Southern women should be represented so the South and the nation would realize all Southern people do not think alike."
She was among those attacked during the Freedom Ride at Anniston, Ga. She recounts her experience in the Anniston hospital:
"There was no doctor at the hospital, only a nurse. They had me breathe pure oxygen but that only burned my throat and did not relieve the coughing. I was burning hot and my clothes were a wet mess.
“After a while Ed and Bert were brought in, choking. We all lay on our beds and coughed. Finally, a woman doctor came in—she had to look up smoke poisoning before treating us. They brought in the Negro man who had been in the back of the bus with me. I pointed to him and told them to take care of him. But they did not bring him into our emergency room.”
“I understand that they did not do anything at all for Hank. Thirteen in all were brought in, and three were admitted: Ed, the Negro man and myself. They gave me a room and I slept. When I woke up the nurse asked me if I could talk with the FBI. The FBI did not care about us, but only the bombing."
She continued to be active in movements for social justice, environmental protection, and world peace. In 1972 she was a co-founder and first director of the Women's Center in Carbondale, Illinois, one of the first shelters for women victims of domestic violence in the United States.
Hughes died October 2, 2012.
Rev Benjamin Elton Cox
After his ordination in 1958, he became a pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church in High Point, North Carolina.
Cox quickly gained a reputation for being a strong supporter of the civil rights movement. He started desegregation efforts in local schools, serving as an advisor for NAACP Youth Council, and participating as an observer for the American Friends Service Committee.
After the Greensboro sit-ins in February 1960, he encouraged local students to participate in their own sit-ins, under the condition they stay non-violent.
Cox views on being non-violent were very strong. He soon caught the attention of the national NAACP leaders, including James Farmer. Farmer hired Cox to help stump the south.
Shortly after Farmer hired Cox, Farmer became executive director of CORE. Cox soon received a call from Farmer, wanting to know if Cox would be willing to join the Freedom Rides due to his background as being an ordained minister. Cox agreed and showed up in Washington wearing formal clothing, in case anyone was questioning if the Ride lacked divine guidance.
He was one of those on the bus at Anniston, Ga. When the mobs attacked, but never talked much about it according to his eldest son.
In the summer of 1961, he participated in another CORE Freedom Ride from Missouri to Louisiana on July 8-15 1961.
He defended his actions in the Freedom Ride by stating in the film Freedom Riders, "If men like Governor Patterson [of Alabama] and Governor Barnett of Mississippi... would carry out the good oath of their office, then people would be able to travel in this country. Then people in Tel Aviv and Moscow and London would not pick up their newspaper for breakfast and realize that America is not living up to the dream of liberty and justice for all."
Cox was arrested seventeen times over the course of a few decades. He died in 2011.
Henry “Hank” Thomas
Thomas attended Howard University in Washington D.C. While attending Howard,
Thomas participated in many lunch counter sit-ins, and became one of the founders of the Non-Violent Action Group (NAG), an affiliate of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC).
His commitment to civil rights increased as he heard about the sit-in movements going on in Greensboro. Inspired by these movements, Thomas became a participant and organizer of early movements in Maryland and in Virginia.
Thomas' first arrest was at a movie theater in Hyattsville, MD. He attempted to purchase movie tickets at a white movie theater, and they wouldn't let him buy any because he was black, so he waited. Eventually the police arrived came and arrested him.
"My first arrest came in the Hyattsville, MD. There's a movie theater there that, of course, we could not go in. And we went there to buy tickets, prearranging we wouldn't move out of the way for other people to buy tickets. That's when I was arrested. That was the beginning."
Thomas was the first one to make it out of the burning bus in Anniston, Ga. As he made his way out, a man asked "Are you all OK?" Before anyone could answer, the man smirked and struck Thomas in the head with a baseball bat. He fell to the ground and almost lost consciousness.
Although almost all of the Freedom Riders needed medical attention, the hospital they were taken to did not give them much help. Genevieve Hughes, another rider, made this statement about Hank Thomas' visit to the hospital after the incident: "I understand they did not do anything at all for Hank."
Although Thomas was injured, and injected with a sense of fear, he participated in a second Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi ten days later.
This time, he was incarcerated and served time at the Parchman State Prison Farm. Thomas was soon after released on bail, and on August 22, 1961, he became the first rider to appeal his conviction for the breach of peace. Although the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed his conviction in 1964,[8] the U.S. Supreme Court reversed in 1965.[9]
After the Freedom Rides he was drafted into the service In 1965, and served in the Vietnam War as a medic. He was injured in battle and subsequently received a Purple Heart.
Thomas moved to Atlanta, which he thought was the best place for black middle-class at the time. Here, he became an entrepreneur, opening up a laundromat with his friend.
Afterward, he worked his way up through the franchise business. First, he became the franchisee of a Burger King and two Dairy Queens, and eventually became the franchisee of six McDonald's restaurants.[citation needed] He currently owns four Marriott Hotels, two Fairfield Inns, and two TownePlace Suites.
--partially excerpted from The Black Past and from Wikipedia
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Former Nickerson Farms Corporate Headquarters located at 110 South Oak St. in Eldon,MO. The building has been vacant for over fifteen years.
Note the long abandoned office building features the same tudoresque architecture and A-Frame facade of the Nickerson Farms restaurants.
Note, Nickerson Farms was founded by Ivan Nickerson who was a franchisee of Stuckey's Pecan Shoppes. After numerous disagreements on how his Stuckey's franchise was to be ran, Ivan Nickerson dropped his affiliation with Stuckey's and opened his own roadside restaurant under the name "Nickerson Farms. Due to the tension between both companies, the two chains started opening locations right next to (or nearby) one another.
There were about sixty Nickerson Farms restaurants in operation throughout the Country in the early 1970s however, by the mid 1980s the chain experienced financial difficulties and locations began closing their doors. By the late 1980s the chain ceased operations and the buildings with their bright red slopping roofs and tudoresque style architecture were shuttered. There are still a few dozen of the buildings standing although only a handful of the buildings are occupied. The majority of the restaurants are vacant and because of their unique design and rural locations have proved to be difficult to reuse. I should note that aside from the iconic design of the restaurants, one of the major selling points of Nickerson Farms were the beehives INSIDE of their restaurants. The company prided itself on its "fresh honey" and built functioning hives in their restaurants so customers could watch the 40,000+ bees make the "freshest honey available". The exterior of the restaurants had a small pipe coming out of the roof where bees would come and go throughout the year. Remarkably there were never any documented incidents of the bees escaping into the restaurants nor any noted reports of bee stings in the parking lots (although I'm sure some happened). The is one location in Morengo,OH that continues to operate under the name Farmstead Restaurant and while the menu and interior decor is similar to its predecessor but the beehives are long gone.
This location opened in 2002. No, that was not a typo. The franchisee that built this location was still in the dark ages when it came to what their idea of Burger King was, so a lot of their locations built in the early-2000s look as if they were constructed no later than 1995. It wouldn't be until the following year in which they'd begin building locations that better reflect Burger King's contemporary restaurant designs. Aside from the dining room being repainted back in 2016, this location hasn't seen many changes since it opened.
Also of note that this replaced a 1982-built location a couple of miles east, which eventually became a flooring center before being torn down and replaced by a car wash.
Sign for Hungry Jack's in Melbourne, Australia. When Burger King moved to expand its operations into Australia, it found that its business name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide, South Australia. As a result, Burger King provided the Australian franchisee, Jack Cowin, with a list of possible alternative names derived from pre-existing trademarks already registered by Burger King and its then corporate parent Pillsbury that could be used to name the Australian restaurants. Cowin selected the "Hungry Jack" brand name, one of Pillsbury's U.S. pancake mixture products, and slightly changed the name to a possessive form by adding an apostrophe and "s" to form the new name "Hungry Jack's". The first Australian franchise of Burger King Corporation was established in Perth in 1971 under the Hungry Jack's name.
This Golden Corral was closed from February 14th to May 1st, 2018 and has since reopened. These photos were taken during the 2 1/2 month closure of the restaurant. The previous franchise owner closed the restaurant and it was later reopened by a different Golden Corral franchisee.
It was peak dinnertime on a saturday when I took these photos; a bunch of cars kept pulling into the lot and turning around.
Also of note, is that this restaurant was previously a Ryan's steakhouse; basically the signs were just swapped out and it became a Golden Corral! The exterior mostly still the Ryan's look (except for the plug on the front and over the entrance). I didn't get a good look inside, but it appeared the buffet was still located in the middle of the restaurant, just like Ryan's. Ryan's and Golden Corral are similar enough concepts where most people won't notice though.
Golden Corral - S Scatterfield Road - Anderson, Indiana
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Frisch's Mainliner was a restaurant started by the Frisch family before they became the Ohio Franchisee of Big Boy. The location was along US50 in the Cincinnati suburb of Fairfax. In 2018, the store was remodeled to include a small Frisch's museum. A mainliner was a type of airplane popular in the 30s when the restaurant was opened and is featured in the sign.