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7 unusual facts about Ramada


1993 Ramada Hotel drownings

The 1993 Ramada Hotel drownings were the April 7, 1993 deaths by drowning of three teenage boys in a swimming pool at a Ramada Rolling Green Hotel in Andover, Massachusetts.

A661 road

The A661 begins in West Yorkshire at the South Wetherby roundabout (adjacent to the Ramada Jarvis Hotel) where it intersects with the A58 (St Helens to Wetherby via Leeds, Bradford and Halifax) and slip roads for the A1.

Hope Shanti School

Education is the basic right for children and they have the right to learn in a healthy environment, With this thought in mind, Hope Shanti School was established in 2000 by Ganesh Gautam (Managing Director Ramada Hotel Khajuraho, MP, INDIA) and Sadhna Gautam (Director Ramada Hotel Khajuraho, MP, INDIA) who wanted to contribute to the society.

Jimmy Starr

After retirement from the Hollywood scene, Starr moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked for many years as Director of Advertising and Public Relations for Ramada Inn, which was then headquartered in Phoenix.

Ramada

The Ramada hotels and restaurants were sold for $540 million to New World Development Company and the gaming business which included the Tropicana Las Vegas, Tropicana Atlantic City, and Ramada Express in Laughlin, Nevada, were spun off to a new company called Aztar Corporation.

The chain was founded in 1953 by longtime Chicago restaurateur Marion W. Isbell (1905–1988) and a group of investors including Michael Robinson of McAllen, Texas who later went on to start Rodeway Inns in the early 1960s; and Del Webb of Phoenix, who owned the New York Yankees and went on to establish his own lodging chain, Hiway House, in 1956.

Vincent Askew

On August 14, 2008 at 8:13 am US/Eastern, Askew was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl at a Ramada Inn in the 7600 Block of Kendall Drive.


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North Acton tube station

There are approximately 600 new flats directly opposite the station, and there is a Holiday Inn Express hotel next door to the station with the Ramada Encore hotel another five minutes' walk away.

Piccadilly Gardens

Piccadilly Plaza contains the renovated Mercure Hotel (formerly known as the Ramada Manchester Piccadilly and Jarvis Piccadilly Hotel); the refurbishment was completed in 2008.

Pitt Meadows

The movie Duets starring Gwyneth Paltrow & Paul Giamatti had a scene filmed at the Ramada Inn on Lougheed Highway.


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