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Ground BrokenRamada InnBy KATRICIA COCHRANThe $1,500,000 Ramada Inn Roadside Hotel on the Red RiverValley Expressway, just north ofthe Maurine Street overpass, is formally under way; groundbreaking ceremonies were held 11 Thursday morning.Taking part were R. H. (Bob) Mitchell, president of the Wichita Falls Roadside Hotels, Inc.; and his wife, owners and operators of the new Ramada Inn; and Wayne B. Duddlesten, Houston, manager of the Ramada Innj i Development Co. *Duddlesten is also president of Tex-Craft Builders, Inc., a Houston investment building firm which has been named general contractor. |dArchitects are Samson, Mar- o shall and Hilla of Houston. t;Formal shoveling of the first t spadeful of dirt was strictly cere- d monial since bulldozers have al- f; ready been at work clearing the o eight and a half acre site which J ij will house the 103-unit luxury motor hotel. ~ j I'Completion fcThe Ramada Inn, which will be u part of the world’* largest motor a hotel chain, is scheduled for com- tpletion in June. fMitchell said the facility will | % include a motor hotel, apartments, filling station, private jc club, beauty shop, barber shop, self - service laundry and dry|i cleaner with valet service.The Williamsburg-Colonial ar-1 ( chitecture which identifies all Ra-11 mada Inns will be used on the Wichita Falls facility.The buildings will have year-], around air conditioning. A heated swimming pool, shuf fleboard Lcourts and children’s playground^ will add to the facility’s resortatmosphere.There will be a beautifully-appointed dining room, a 24-hour coffee shop, a curio shop in the lobby, and radio, television and automatic - dialing telephone inieach room.Special consideration will be See RAMADA, Page 4At(ItWeather
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Wichita Falls Times
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Wed, Feb 13, 1963
Page 18
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