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A magazine article showing Alice and her friends visiting various places in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel including Peacock Alley, the Park Avenue Lobby and the Terminal Barber Shop.

A sketch depicting a night in the life of the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Peacock Alley, it's most famous corridor, would be filled with hundreds of people each day and evening where ladies and gentlemen went to see and be seen.

Black and white photograph depicting Peacock Alley from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.

"Peacock Alley of the new hotel has little similarity to the old one, except in name… It is, of course, a meeting place…

List of dishes served at the bruncheon held in Peacock Alley on January 1, 1972, the morning after a Lombardo New Year's Eve Gala.

On the menu:

Minted Pineapple and Dates
Salad of Herrings and Apple
Grapefruit – Chilled or Honey…

Black and white photograph depicting the North Lounge of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, 1931.

Black and white photograph depiting the entrance to Peacock Alley, Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, date unknown.

Photo 1 shows the Peacock Alley corridor as it was in our opening year of 1931, this location today is known as our West Lobby and can be entered easily via our Park Avenue entrance.

Photo 2 shows the corridor of our South Lobby leading towards…

The first photograph shows the entrance to the Peacock Alley restaurant as it looked after it's first round of renovations in 1961.

Photograph number 2 shows Peacock Alley as it looked in the 1980s. The location of Peacock Alley in this picture…