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The hotel chain was the first of the mid-price hotels to offer free continental breakfast [7] and the first to introduce the "100 percent satisfaction guarantee." [8] By 1990, the Hampton Inn chain included over 220 properties with more than 27,000 rooms. [9]
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Grand Central Mall is a 908,238-square-foot (84,378.1 m 2) regional shopping mall in Vienna, West Virginia, near the larger city of Parkersburg. The mall opened in 1972 and is the only enclosed mall within thirty-five miles of its region.
The Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area, officially the Parkersburg–Vienna, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by the United States Census Bureau, [1] is an area consisting of two counties in West Virginia, anchored by the cities of Parkersburg and Vienna.
In 1984, DuPont began dispatching employees to secretly fill jugs of water at gas stations and general stores around the plant and bring them in for testing. Sure enough, the tests revealed C8 in the water supplies of two nearby towns—Lubeck, West Virginia, and Little Hocking, Ohio, just across the river from Washington Works.
Elby's (Northern West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, Maryland, [169] 1956–1984, 1988–2000, founded by brothers George, Ellis and Michael Boury) Named after a brand of flavoring syrup sold by the Bourys' restaurant supply business. [106] [note 15] Originally acquired the Big Boy rights to northern West Virginia through Shoney's.
There are many radio stations broadcasting from Parkersburg, including 106.1 Z106 (WRZZ),102.1 The River (WRVB), U.S. 107 WNUS, MIX 100 (WDMX), V96.9 (WVVV), WXIL, Froggy 99.1, 103.1 The Bear, and WPKM 96.3 FM "the Beat" which is the college radio station of West Virginia University at Parkersburg.
Travelers Rest, also known as Old Stone House, is a historic home located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia. It was built as a stagecoach stop to service the Northwestern Turnpike. It serviced the corridor between Winchester, Virginia and Parkersburg, Virginia (now West Virginia).