Holiday Inn celebrates 60th anniversary
A pioneer in modern roadside motels. Written up in Haberstram's The
Fifties.
http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/post/2012/08/holiday-inn-celebrates-its-60th-anniversary/815991/1
(FWIW, my last stay in one wasn't so pleasant. The rooms had steel
doors. Early in the morning (when I wanted and needed to sleep in)
many guests were leaving and the steel doors slamming sounded like a
machine gun. Also, the dining room was lousy.)
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Relevant Pages
- Re: Winter & security stuff
... The great majority of my engines are air cooled, but the Crossley is hopper ... The doors into the lane only open from inside. ... firestop doors with an additional 1/8" steel cladding on the outside. ...
(uk.rec.engines.stationary) - Re: Container hardware
... roof leak, difficult to repair this type of roof as it has sealant and ... gasket between the aluminum and steel ribs. ... My observations are the same as the other posters regarding steel ... keep the factory doors and put in a set of double steel doors on the ...
(rec.crafts.metalworking) - Re: Container hardware
... roof leak, difficult to repair this type of roof as it has sealant and ... gasket between the aluminum and steel ribs. ... My observations are the same as the other posters regarding steel ... keep the factory doors and put in a set of double steel doors on the ...
(rec.crafts.metalworking) - Finishing exterior steel doors
... They offer their doors in what they call "stainable steel ... spraying finishes) but the instructions for the gel stain explicitly ... The reason I didn't have Taylor prefinish the door is ...
(rec.woodworking) - Smoker door warpage.
... Hey, all, I looked at several articles regarding steel warpage with ... welding and cutting and some on hot-rolled versus cold-rolled steel ... smoker when the doors are cut and when the strap is ... What I did is I took a piece of 24 inch steel pipe (1/4 inch wall, ...
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