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The Starlight Roof of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel as seen in the late 1940s. Located on the 18th floor of the hotel, the Starlight Roof served as a supper-club for decades featuring performers such as Xavier Cugat and Ella Fitzgerald.

On November 4, 1946, the Foreign Ministers of the “Big Four” Allied powers convened in the Towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to discuss the final peace conditions of World War II. Below is a news clip discussing this international…

On October 4, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began his presidential campaign in New York City. Starting in Ebbets Field, Brooklyn and ending with a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, this video provides rare and exclusive documentation…

From the movie, Week-End at the Waldorf, Xavier Cugat and his famous Orchestra are seen performing their hit single "Guadalajara" in the Starlight Roof.

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Frank Sinatra making his debut in the Wedgwood Room of the Waldorf Astoria New York Hotel (1945)

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The image from the newsletter "At the Waldorf", shows armed guards standing at attention at the entrance of the meeting place for the "Big Four". Those present were Foreign Ministers of the United States, Great Britain, U.S.S.R., and France. They…

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On November 4, 1946, the "Big Four" Allied powers convened in the Towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to begin discussing the peace treaties that would come to end World War II.

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