If you saw Sunday night’s episode of Mad Men, you know much of the show’s plot revolved around an upstate New York Howard Johnson’s where Don brings Megan to relax, but instead they argue and she takes off.
The iconic orange-roofed lodge featured in the show wasn’t actually in New York at all, it was filmed at a now vacant restaurant (which really was a HoJo’s back in the day) attached to the Regency Inn and Suites on Dalewood Avenue in Baldwin Park, an L.A. suburb in California’s San Gabriel Valley.
Howard Johnson’s first opened at the location in 1967 and was sold in 1995.
For Mad Men, CGI removed a more modern four-story hotel that is now located behind the restaurant and added back HoJo’s blue and orange color scheme.
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