Orignal Holiday Inn Locations in your area

[GaryV]

I'm pretty sure we stayed at a Holiday Inn on Lake Shore Drive a little bit north of Navy Pier, back in the mid-1960's.  Is it still there?

[catch22]

1331 Trumbull, Detroit.  Opened sometime in the mid-1960s.  A few blocks south of old Tiger Stadium.  I used to park in their lot for Tiger games in the late 1960s - early 1970s.

As the neighborhood declined, HI left and the building become the Corktown Inn, with a less than stellar reputation.  With the neighborhood (Corktown) rebounding a bit, the building was refurbished in 2017 and is now the Trumbull & Porter Hotel.

https://goo.gl/maps/JrzWW2oQYZLL6yEw8

[iowahighways]

There was one at the southwest corner of Gray's Lake in Des Moines from 1960 until the flood of 1993. Holiday Inn eventually moved to another hotel closer to the airport, while the old building was demolished and eventually became restrooms and concession stands for Gray's Lake Park.

There was also one at I-35/80 at Merle Hay Road. In 2006 or so it became a Ramada, while Holiday Inn moved to a former Sheraton Four Points just down the road.

[lepidopteran]

In the Dayton area

• Dayton Mall -- at the SR-725 exit off I-75, home to said mall and a lot of other retail.  This one was the newest in town, having opened only in 1980.  It was also the only one built as a Holidome (and an impressive one at that), whereas all the others were modified.  After becoming a Wyndham Garden in 2011, it was demolished in 2015.  I thought this was for some medical facility, but as of last year GSV hows only a vacant lot
• Downtown -- between 1st and 2nd St. at I-75.  This has been demolished and is now a parking lot.  Additionally, major reconstruction of I-75 and its interchange there appears to have encroached on the property somewhat.
• Northwest, also Englewood -- at the SR-48 exit off I-70.  Non-Holidome, but does have an indoor pool.  This became a Clarion inn around 2014.  One thing that was cool about this location was how, back when it had the "Great Sign", when lit up at night it could be seen continuously for about 1.4 miles on I-70, owing to it being at the bottom of an arrow-straight downhill slope.
• North -- at the Wagner Ford Rd. exit off I-75.  In addition to being retrofitted as a Holidome, a long 5-story addition was built.  Became a Ramada, then the Hotel Dayton.  Sadly, after suffering extensive damage in the 2019 tornado outbreak, it was demolished.
• South -- at the Dryden Rd. exit off I-75.  This too was retrofitted as a Holidome.  Became The Moraine Inn, but appears to be vacant.

Additionally, there was a location in Fairborn -- not on a freeway, but near a large USAF base.  Now the Fairborn Inn.

There are several HI and HI Express locations in the area, but most are of the newer design, preferring multi-floor structures instead of the classic L-shape, "around the pool" layout.

[GCrites]

In the Dayton area

• North -- at the Wagner Ford Rd. exit off I-75.  In addition to being retrofitted as a Holidome, a long 5-story addition was built.  Became a Ramada, then the Hotel Dayton.  Sadly, after suffering extensive damage in the 2019 tornado outbreak, it was demolished.

That tornado damage was nasty. I remember driving through there after the tornado and being shocked at the devastation in the area. GSV shows it too: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8011106,-84.1897447,3a,75y,108.44h,70.82t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sR7YThmOMVnetpwGAoYl6sg!2e0!5s20190601T000000!7i16384!8i8192

[US71]

Fayetteville AR: razed for CVS Pharmacy
Springdale, AR: Executive Inn
Rogers, AR: Demoted from Ramada Inn to Rogers Inn
Bentonville, AR razed for Harp's Grocery (reportedly was in bad shape)

Fort Smith, AR
South: Super 8 Motel (but re-brands itself every few years
North (Downtown) Inn Towne Lodge

Harrison, AR is now a medical services center

Mountain Home, AR is The River Rock Inn & Restaurant

[iowahighways]

A few more in Iowa:

• Des Moines: In addition to the two mentioned upthread, there was one at the southeast corner of East 14th Street (US 69) and Euclid Avenue (US 6). It was already demolished and redeveloped by the time I moved to the area (2002), and is now home to a Casey's and a Dollar General, among others.
• Bettendorf: Southwest corner of I-74 and Middle Road. It was a Holiday Inn as late as 2010 but was later demolished and a Hilton Garden Inn built on the site.
• Coralville: North of the I-80/Coral Ridge Avenue (former US 218) exit. It was a Ramada when I went to the University of Iowa in the late 1990s but demolished around 2005 for redevelopment, with the Iowa Gym Nest and other businesses built on the site. The street it was on is still known as Holiday Road.
• Davenport: 53rd and Brady (former US 61) Streets. Became a Clarion in 2005 and was the "Hotel Davenport"  until it closed a couple of years ago.
• Muscatine: Northeast corner of US 61 and IA 38. It was most recently the Hotel Muscatine according to Street View but is closed now.

[dlsterner]

In the late '60s and early-mid '70s we stayed exclusively at Holiday Inns on family vacations along the I-85 and I-81 corridors.  Here's a few I remember, and where they are now:

Newnan, GA:   Along US 27-ALT near I-85, Now America's Best Value Inn.
Suwannee, GA:  Along GA 317 near I-85. Demolished.  The empty space between the Quality Inn and GA 317 (the Quality Inn itself may have once been a rear building; not sure)
Commerce, GA:  Along US 441 near I-85.  Northern quadrant, unsure where the building is/was.
Pilot Mountain, NC:  Along NC 268 near US 52.  Now an Econo Lodge & Suites.
Martinsville / Collinsville, VA:  Along (then US, now US BUS) 220, west side of road.  Now an Econo Lodge.
Salem, VA:  Along VA 619 near I-81, up on a hill.  Now a Howard Johnson's.

Unrelated note:  Maybe somebody (me?) should start a similar thread for old Stuckey's locations.  As we used Holiday Inn's exclusively for nights, we used Stuckey's exclusively for lunch.