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The "Great Sign" was a familiar sight on U.S. highways in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. A Holiday Inn in New Orleans, pictured on a postcard c. 1975. The "Great Sign" was the roadside sign used by Holiday Inn during its original era of expansion from the 1950s to 1970s.
A selection of inn signs carved on slabs and rescued after the Great Fire of London is preserved in the Guildhall. Pub sign painters are often poorly documented; an exception was Dorset painter George Biles , who attracted attention in media for his career lasting to the age of 87, and many of whose signs and studio materials were preserved ...
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A short-lived attempt was made briefly by Bill Farner to franchise the brand at the end of the 1950s. As a response to the Great Sign of the Holiday Inn franchises, a large neon sign design was deployed. The signage, used at both owned and franchised locations, had a star atop an 'A' and an arrow pointing to "Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts".
The Vermont inn looks familiar for a reason. The quaint inn featured in much of White Christmas is the same Paramount set featured in Bing Crosby’s earlier Christmas movie, Holiday Inn. The ...
Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, with Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, and Walter Abel. [2] It was directed by Mark Sandrich with music by Irving Berlin .
UTHSC plans to demolish a trio of properties along Madison Avenue in Downtown's Medical District, including a former Holiday Inn.
A working fragment of the original Holiday Inn "Great Sign" Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2-6-6-6 "Allegheny"-class steam locomotive #1601, built by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. The Allegheny was the third most-powerful steam locomotive ever built, after the Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4 locomotive and the Pennsylvania Railroad ...