La Quinta Inns, Inc. - 1994 Specimen Stock Certificate

Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company and Security-Columbian United States Banknote Corporation. Incorporated in 1978.

La Quinta Inns & Suites (Spanish: La Quinta, "the country villa", pronounced [la ?kinta]) is a chain of limited service hotels in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Honduras. La Quinta Holdings, Inc. first sold shares to the public in April 2014. La Quinta has headquarters in Irving, Texas. As of December 31, 2018, the company owns and operates 914 properties with 89,456 rooms. The first La Quinta Inn location was opened in 1968 by real estate entrepreneur Sam Barshop (1929–2013) and his brother Phil (1935–1998) in San Antonio, Texas, across the street from the site of HemisFair '68 World's Fair. La Quinta's first headquarters were in San Antonio.

In 1999 the company announced it was going to move, transferring over 100 jobs from city to city. The company cited the lack of nonstop flights from San Antonio International Airport as a reason for moving. The company wished to have its headquarters near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, a large airport. The company kept around 300 employees who worked in accounting, information systems, and reservations in San Antonio. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Quinta_Inns_%26_Suites