Holiday Inn Hotel Courts at 4925 Summer Avenue in Memphis, the main highway to Nashville. In the early 1990s, it was demolished, leaving behind a plaque commemorating the site.
Wilson partnered with Wallace E. Johnson to build additional motels on the roads entering Memphis.[4] At the time Holiday Inn's corporate headquarters was in a converted plumbing shed owned by Johnson. In 1953, the company built its next three hotels which, along with their first hotel, covered the roads that led to Memphis. The second motel was built on U.S. 51 South. It was followed by two more in 1953, one on Highway 51 North, and another on U.S. 61. Upon Johnson's death in 1988, Wilson was quoted as saying, "The greatest man I ever knew died today. He was the greatest partner a man could ever have." Together, with they started, with Wilson later helming the project, the Holiday Corporation, one of the world's largest hotel groups.