Kemmons Wilson
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Charles Kemmons Wilson was an American hotelier. He is best known for founding the hotel chain Holiday Inn in the 1950s.
Grave of Kemmons Wilson
Isaac Hayes
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Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records in the 1960s, serving as an in-house so
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…and Orange Lake Country Club. After selling his shares of Holiday Inn, he formed Wilson World, another hotel chain. In July 1974, Wilson, along with Isaac Hayes, Al Wilson, Mike Storen and others, bought the Memphis Tams franchise in the American Basketball Association. They changed the team to the Memphis…
Hayes in 1998
1972 Academy award for "Theme from Shaft"
1973 photo of Hayes taken by John H. White
Hayes performing in 2007