First place I ever ate fried clams (and I loved them!) was a HoJos on the Pennsylvania Turnpike! I was a kid and there was classical music playing inside the restaurant. I didn't know the name of it but the melody stuck in my head forever. Decades later I heard it again on the radio while I was driving in LA. It's the duet from The Pearl Fishers by Bizet.
Such a part of childhood for many of us in SE MA. We used to get hot dogs at the Wollaston branch and I think the last time I ate at a HoJo's was in the '60's at the Cleveland Circle branch. Their only shortcoming, however, was clam strips! No self respecting fried clam should be separated from its belly!!!
$1.35! Even in 1940 surely a bargain?
Oh those fried clam strips! They were such a novelty for a girl from Tennessee.
There’s still a HoJos in Bangor, alas, no restaurant
But what is Hojo's without a restaurant, Amie?
Thank you Nancy and have a great thanksgiving.
the best buttercrunch ice cream !
24 flavors! Or was it 28?
This is too sweet...can you even imagine! xoxo
I miss HoJos!! What a menu!!
First place I ever ate fried clams (and I loved them!) was a HoJos on the Pennsylvania Turnpike! I was a kid and there was classical music playing inside the restaurant. I didn't know the name of it but the melody stuck in my head forever. Decades later I heard it again on the radio while I was driving in LA. It's the duet from The Pearl Fishers by Bizet.
How amazing. I can't imagine Bizet playing in a modern Five Guys, can you?
No way! Where’s my Time Machine? Take me back please.
Such a part of childhood for many of us in SE MA. We used to get hot dogs at the Wollaston branch and I think the last time I ate at a HoJo's was in the '60's at the Cleveland Circle branch. Their only shortcoming, however, was clam strips! No self respecting fried clam should be separated from its belly!!!
So true about those clam strips, Suzy!
Isn't that just the case with twenty odd family members who haven't been together for quite some time trying to outshine one another?
BTW, I love "enough problems attached to make for interesting conversations."
Is that "interesting" in the sense of the ancient Chinese curse ("may you live in interesting times")?