Hiway House is a motorcycle hotel chain founded in 1956 in Phoenix, Arizona, by Del Webb, a construction magnate who owns the New York Yankees baseball team and then creates a retired Sun City community. The rest of the old Hiway House chain still operates in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The chain soon became a fixture throughout the Southwest. Finally, there will be the location of Hiway Del Webb House in Phoenix, Holbrook, Flagstaff, and Tucson, Arizona; Albuquerque and Roswell, New Mexico; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Abilene, Texas; and Los Angeles near LAX, Blythe, Palm Springs, and Arcadia, California.
Before starting the Hiway House network, Webb was one of the premier investors of Ramada Inns from 1954 to 1956, then a new chain of roadside hotels in the states of Arizona, California and Texas in the southwest with a long-term plan for national coverage established by Marion W. Isbell, the owner of Chicago's old restaurant. Today, Ramada (now Ramada Franchise Systems) is one of the largest lodging chains in the world and is owned by Wyndham Hotels & amp; Resorts.
Webb sold the Hiway House chain in the early 1960s, which then took the name Sentry Hiway House. The chain remained in service until about 1970, at which time most of the hotels were sold and renamed them with some of them being competing inn chain franchises.
Albuquerque is one of the few towns that have two or more Hiway House locations during the chain's heyday. One such location is one of the last Hiway House motorbikes still operating under the nameplate. Located on 3200 blocks Central Avenue S.E. in the Nob Hill section, which is the world-famous Route 66 lane in the world through Albuquerque, still has the original colonial style architecture and the same neon sign that has stood since it opened in 1958. The lower part of the street- Hiway House punctuation marks the motto of "Sleeping is our Business. " Today the line still appears in Albuquerque location marks, owned by Bicu Corporation and has been operated in recent years by George and Livia Strimbu. This restaurant operates today as Sushi and Saki Restaurant and Korean BBQ House.
Video Hiway House
See also
- List of motels
Maps Hiway House
References
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