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Former General Manager, Eric Long, shares a laugh with our Executive Director of Catering, Jim Blauvelt during an event held in our Grand Ballroom in 1994.

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.

In this letter, Mr. Boldt is writing in response to Mr. Duryea thanking him for sending the tax forms for "Mrs. Boldt's property." This property is in fact Boldt Castle, located in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate, New York.

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Senator Barack Obama photographed entering the Towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 2008.

President George W Bush and President of El Salvador Elias Antonio Saca photographed in the Presidential Suite prior to their bi-lateral meeting on September 18, 2006. (Photo credit: The White House)

Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are photographed attending a luncheon for the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in 2000. Not featured in this photograph but at the same table were Vladimir Putin, French President Jacques…

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…

The first photograph shows the bar of the Peacock Alley Lounge and Cafe's in the early 1940s.

Photo 2 is taken from the 1946 series of the "Facts of the Waldorf Astoria" booklet and shows guests enjoying themselves in the Lounge Cafe.

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