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The Church of Howard Johnson

The universal adoption of denim as appropriate garb for everything from hard physical labor to attendance at the opera suggests the pervasiveness of the myth of equality and a disinclination to make distinctions of dress on the basis of class, function, or occasion. The difficulty of identifying the nature of a modern building on the basis of its architecture results from similar inhibitions. Rosalie Colie once recalled her disappointment on a long motor trip at finding that what from a distance looked enticingly like a Howard Johnson’s turned out to be a Lutheran church.
— Donald J. Olsen, The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna
Published at 8:03 am on Monday 5 October 2009. Categories: Architecture Tags: , , .
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