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During the 1960s and early 1970s, Holiday Inn hotels located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina were simply called "Holiday" because a local motel already had the "Holiday Inn" name. The Myrtle Beach motel started as Ocean Front Lodge in 1948 but changed the name to Holiday Inn in 1949 (three years before the founding of the chain), and put up a ...
Since Phillips had invested in the Holiday Inn hotel chain earlier, he later recorded other artists on the Holiday Inn record label for Wilson. The label's first rock-and-roll single was "Love" by Greg Todd and the Jacks, released in 1968. [2] The first full-length album, also released in 1968, contained 12 songs by Dolly Holiday. [3]
Red Lion Hotels' roots began in 1959 in the Portland metropolitan area by two local business partners, Tod McClaskey and Ed Pietz. The two had met at McClaskey's first business, the Frontier Room, in Vancouver, [3] Washington and went on to purchase the 89-room Thunderbird Motor Inn in Portland, Oregon, located along the Willamette River, at the east end of Portland's Broadway Bridge, across ...
In 2022, the city of Columbus decided to fine Fort Rapids $1000 per day. [6] In March of 2023, the owner of the hotel was arrested. As of 2024, Fort Rapids is still closed and the indoor water park has an unknown future. [7] In October of 2024, a fire was started overnight and took hours for Columbus Fire Department to control. [8]
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Drury Hotels Company, LLC is an American hospitality company that operates a chain of mid-scale limited service hotels [1] under the brands Drury Inn and Suites, Drury Plaza Hotel, and Pear Tree Inn. [3] As of 2024, the chain operates more than 150 locations in 27 states. [4]
Crowne Plaza was established in 1983 as a breakout brand formed as the upscale sister brand to Holiday Inn. [2] The first Crowne Plaza by Holiday Inn hotel opened that year in Rockville, Maryland. [3] In 1988, Bass PLC (today InterContinental Hotels Group) purchased Holiday Corporation and in 1994 the brand was renamed Crowne Plaza Hotels. [4]
Holiday Inn Express was founded in 1990 under the ownership of Bass. [7] Plans at the time called for 250 locations to be open by 1995. [8] The first three hotels under the Holiday Inn Express name all opened in 1990. These were located in Nashville, Tennessee; Abilene, Texas; and Poughkeepsie, New York. All three were converted from existing ...