Trying to trace back the start of the legend, I found the text referencing the Holiday Inn is also in Wikipedia, which is often unreliable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicta
The notes there suggest they sourced that information from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. That traces it back to at least October 22, 2017.
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18715437/
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