Holiday Inns Detroit 1976

Looking through an old Holiday Inns Directory from 1976, and I notice that all 15 in the Metro Detroit area have been booted from the Holiday Inns system.
31200 Industrial Highway, Romulus [[current status unknown)
11560 Harper Avenue [[now the Travel Inn)
26555 Telegraph Road, Southfield [[became "Holiday Resort" and closed)
32035 Van Dyke, Warren [[became a Quality Inn, then a Rodeway) currently awaiting "redevelopment"
1331 Trumbull [[now The Corktown Hotel)
10900 W. Eight Mile Road [[now Royal Inn)
20777 Eureka Road, Taylor [[became a Ramada, current status unknown)
22900 Michigan, Dearborn [[demolished, site of a strip mall)
30375 Plymouth Road, Livonia [[now a Quality Inn)
1801 S. Telegraph, Bloomfield Hills [[demolished, site of a Lowe's outlet)
38123 W. 10 Mile Road, Farmington [[demolished, site of Suburban Chrysler)
1 N. River Road, Mount Clemens [[now Victory Inn)
1 West 9 Mile Road, Hazel Park [[demolished, now a strip mall)
2537 Rochester Court, Troy [[now a Quality Inn)
44 Gerald, Highland Park [[demolished)

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Originally Posted by ThunderTrap

Looking through an old Holiday Inns Directory from 1976, and I notice that all 15 in the Metro Detroit area have been booted from the Holiday Inns system.
31200 Industrial Highway, Romulus [[current status unknown)
11560 Harper Avenue [[now the Travel Inn)
26555 Telegraph Road, Southfield [[became "Holiday Resort" and closed)
32035 Van Dyke, Warren [[became a Quality Inn, then a Rodeway) currently awaiting "redevelopment"
1331 Trumbull [[now The Corktown Hotel)
10900 W. Eight Mile Road [[now Royal Inn)
20777 Eureka Road, Taylor [[became a Ramada, current status unknown)
22900 Michigan, Dearborn [[demolished, site of a strip mall)
30375 Plymouth Road, Livonia [[now a Quality Inn)
1801 S. Telegraph, Bloomfield Hills [[demolished, site of a Lowe's outlet)
38123 W. 10 Mile Road, Farmington [[demolished, site of Suburban Chrysler)
1 N. River Road, Mount Clemens [[now Victory Inn)
1 West 9 Mile Road, Hazel Park [[demolished, now a strip mall)
2537 Rochester Court, Troy [[now a Quality Inn)
44 Gerald, Highland Park [[demolished)

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Don't dispare, There's usually vacancies over at the Viking on Grand River near the casino.

Were there any Holidomes in southeastern Michigan? Of the two I know of - the one in Gaylord was demolished, and the one over by Muskegon isn't a Holiday Inn anymore, but they still have the dome.

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...54157ff0_m.jpg

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Originally Posted by JBMcB

Were there any Holidomes in southeastern Michigan? Of the two I know of - the one in Gaylord was demolished, and the one over by Muskegon isn't a Holiday Inn anymore, but they still have the dome.

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10 Mile in Farmington was a holidome before they moved around the corner and torn it down for a storage lot for cars.

6 Mile in Livonia was left off the original list. Tremors, their nightclub there was huge in the 70s.

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Originally Posted by Wheels

6 Mile in Livonia was left off the original list. Tremors, their nightclub there was huge in the 70s.

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This location was briefly a Radisson but is once again under the Holiday Inn brand:

http://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels...ln/hoteldetail

There are also quite a few Holiday Inn Express properties around. There's one on 12 Mile in Farmington Hills that they built relatively recently.

They are also looking at building one at I-96 and Inkster. It's been on the city council agenda recently, no idea when they intend to break ground.

The "Holiday Resort" property off of Telegraph looks really sad. It seems to me that an area with so much traffic could support a hotel, but perhaps the building requires too much investment to be economically feasible.

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Originally Posted by Wheels

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6 Mile in Livonia was left off the original list. Tremors, their nightclub there was huge in the 70s.

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The Holidome at Laurel Park [[northeast corner of Six Mile Rd. and I-275) did not make the original list of 1976 because it was not finished until 1981 or 82.

Laurel Park might have been the one referred to as "Planned or Under Construction = Livonia #2"

As a kid, I stayed at the one on Van Dyke in Warren, which became a Quality Inn then a Rodeway, and now planned to redevelop the land. The GM at the time I stayed there in the 70s, Pieter Lion, now owns a very nice inn, a romantic B&B, The Rosemont Inn in Douglas,MI

First visit to Detroit in 1966 we stayed at the one on Trumbull. I thought it was such a classy motel - outdoor pool, walk to my first Tiger game at that huge stadium. Next year I couldn't understand why my parents insisted on staying in crummy little Windsor. So what if you had to walk around a few armored vehicles?

There was one on Connor and Harper

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Originally Posted by 401don

First visit to Detroit in 1966 we stayed at the one on Trumbull. I thought it was such a classy motel - outdoor pool, walk to my first Tiger game at that huge stadium. Next year I couldn't understand why my parents insisted on staying in crummy little Windsor. So what if you had to walk around a few armored vehicles?

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I can imagine that story playing out against Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe through the Tulips" just about that time in the sixties. lol

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Originally Posted by stasu1213

There was one on Connor and Harper

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Yes, that is the 1976-era property located at 11560 Harper, today the Travel Inn and, in effect, a glorified brothel.

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Originally Posted by ThunderTrap

20777 Eureka Road, Taylor [[became a Ramada, current status unknown)

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Abandoned since 2010.

It swapped brands with the former Presidential Inn a mile up I-75 at Northline around 1990.

I have a potentially interesting story about the former Holiday Inn in Hazel Park that involves Peter Gabriel, a Sambo's restaurant, salt substituted for cocaine, a secret note left for a waitress, Juicyfruit gum, threatened gunplay, some scotch, and driving down 8 Mile at about 90 mph, but I really don't remember much of it.

I definitely remember the Sambo's chain, which went under by the late 70s/early 80s. There was one that I would frequent in Plattsburgh,NY which is now a Friendly's Ice Cream [[another chain that used Chapter 11 to reorganize and shed several locations...for example, down to 1 in the Burlington,VT area rather than 4).

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Originally Posted by ThunderTrap

31200 Industrial Highway, Romulus [[current status unknown)

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Now the Wyndham Garden Metro Airport. I stayed at the HI there in 78 when I was apartment hunting for my move to the area. It's directly across I-94 from the end of runway 22L at Metro [[then known as runway 21R), and the soundproofing was none too good. All night jets would come over at a few hundred feet every fifteen minutes or so, and it sounded as if they were going to crash into the damned place. It was the worst night's sleep of my life, and gave me an incentive to find an apartment quickly and get back to Purdue.

I was back in 85 for a Ford supervisor training session, after it had dropped the HI affiliation and had no national branding, and it was much improved. No problems at all sleeping.

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Originally Posted by Don K

Now the Wyndham Garden Metro Airport. I stayed at the HI there in 78 when I was apartment hunting for my move to the area. It's directly across I-94 from the end of runway 22L at Metro [[then known as runway 21R), and the soundproofing was none too good. All night jets would come over at a few hundred feet every fifteen minutes or so, and it sounded as if they were going to crash into the damned place. It was the worst night's sleep of my life, and gave me an incentive to find an apartment quickly and get back to Purdue.

I was back in 85 for a Ford supervisor training session, after it had dropped the HI affiliation and had no national branding, and it was much improved. No problems at all sleeping.

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I owned a 1977 Olds Toronado with a moonroof. We used to park it at the back of that parking lot and drink beer while the jets landed flying DIRECTLY overhead of the moonroof.

I worked at the Holiday Inn on Eureka for a summer in the mid-70's. Staff was nice, management no so much.

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Originally Posted by RaumVogel

I owned a 1977 Olds Toronado with a moonroof. We used to park it at the back of that parking lot and drink beer while the jets landed flying DIRECTLY overhead of the moonroof.

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I remember after my first day of apartment hunting lying by the pool seeing the jets go directly overhead, thinking, "Oh my god, this will not be a good night." The roar of first-generation jets at a couple hundred feet was incredible.