RAMADA

Ramada

Ramada is a large hotel chain owned and operated by Wyndham Worldwide. The lodging chain was founded in 1953 by longtime Chicago restaurateur Marion W. Isbell 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. Other original investors of Ramada Inns included Bill Helsing, Isbell's brother-in-law; Max Sherman of Chicago, a produce operator dubbed "The Tomato King"; Chicago attorneys Ezra Ressman and Mort Levin; and Frank Lichtenstein and Robert Rosow of ...

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ramada

Noun

  1. A simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches.


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