Howard Johnson's «Simple Simon» weathervane - Lake Georges, NY - Unique Weathervanes on Waymarking.com

While weathervanes had graced the couple of restaurant design used by Howard Johnson's over the early years using Simple Simon and the pieman, the style of the later period was a classic of brand recognization icons. While some of these classics were installed over the older classic Colonial restaurant style design, most of these classic gems were installed during the main expansion period of the chain that started during the late 1950's with the Rufus Nims designed Restaurants style.

Stand-Alone Restaurant Design uses this type of weathervane.

The classic design weathervanes is made from sheet steel, and standard pipe. The shapes are either stamped-out or cut with a torch from sheet metal in the shapes of the arrow point and the arrow tail as well as the Simple Simon, the Dog and the Pieman characters, the Dogs tail, and Lamp housing at the top including the sign hangers left and right.

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Date Logged Log User Rating   05/11/2022 dream chaser visited it