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Vestiges of Americana Fading Before Our Eyes

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Vestiges of Americana Fading Before Our Eyes
"The midway on America's Super Highway, Howard Johnson Restaurant," postcard, between 1930 and 1945. Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers collection
Salena Zito
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HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa.—In truth, the last Howard Johnson’s restaurant closed long before the one in Lake George, New York, did last week.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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