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  2. Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts - Wikipedia

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    The Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts brand was the first motel chain in the United States, [1] [2] founded by Edgar Lee Torrance in Waco, Texas, in 1929. By 1955, there were more than twenty Alamo Plazas across the southeastern U.S., most controlled by a loosely knit group of a half-dozen investors and operating using common branding or architecture.

  3. Scots Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The Scots Hotel is a hotel in Tiberias, Israel, formerly the Scots Mission Hospital, [1] ... Herbert Watt Torrance retired in 1953 and returned to Scotland. The ...

  4. Sunrider - Wikipedia

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    In 2015 Sunrider acquired the 297-room SLS Hotel Beverly Hills for approximately $200 million, purchased directly from Sam Nazarian's SBE group. The hotel is located at 465 S. La Cienega Blvd. [8] Also that year the company acquired the historic St. Ermin's Hotel in London, England.

  5. The Shining (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer, [1] is hired as the winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel, an isolated resort hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Jack is a recovering alcoholic with anger issues which, prior to the story, had caused him to accidentally break his son Danny's arm and lose a teaching job after assaulting a student.

  6. The Shining (film) - Wikipedia

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    Jack Torrance takes a winter caretaker position at the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, which closes every winter season.After his arrival, manager Stuart Ullman informs Jack that a previous caretaker, Charles Grady, killed his wife, two young daughters and himself in the hotel a decade prior.

  7. Room 237 - Wikipedia

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    Jack Torrance, a would-be professional writer, takes on a job as the winter caretaker of the sprawling Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. His wife Wendy and son Danny accompany him for the season, the child exhibiting a psychic power called "the shining".

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