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EPISODE · Jul 21, 2025 · 9 MIN

Kemmons Wilson, US, Founder of Holiday Inns

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July 21. Kemmons Wilson. Kemmons was already a movie-theatre-owning millionaire when he took his wife and 5 little children to the capital for a family vacation. They stayed in a $6-a-night motel room, which was not only dingy and cramped, but its price zoomed to $16-a-night as soon as the motel owner saw the kids. Wilson told his wife it wasn’t fair, and within a year, he opened […] The post Kemmons Wilson, US, Founder of Holiday Inns first appeared on 365 Christian Men.

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July 21. Kemmons Wilson. Kemmons was already a movie-theatre-owning millionaire when he took his wife and 5 little children to the capital for a family vacation. They stayed in a $6-a-night motel room, which was not only dingy and cramped,...

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