In case you're left without a place to feast tomorrow, try some of these locales for homemade-like cooking. The Howard Johnson's menu looks good. Chilled fruit cup with sherbet. Mince pie. Freshly baked rolls and butter. Orange drink! Mints!


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Actually, this is a scan from a 1955 Village Voice. So, unfortunately, you won't be able to feast at the Greenwich Village HoJo's tomorrow, nor at any of the other places mentioned here. They're all gone.

Maybe it's best to take the writer's advice: "the wisest thing is to go to a friend's home and get fractured."

-A look back at the HoJo's of Times Square, the history of the building that held it, and what's there now.