Browse Items (36 total)

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.

This correspondence from 1964 describes the origins of the Martini. According to this evidence, a man by the name of Mr. Martinez visited the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel sometime in the 1890s and suggested this drink to a bartender at the hotel.…

Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter stands with his family outside of the Waldorf Astoria hotel to answer a few questions from news reporters. They were here at the hotel attending the luncheon in his honor on June 5, 1962.

From left to right in this photograph are:
Mrs. Trudy Cooper, Astronaut Gordon Cooper, NYC Mayor Frank Wagner, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and Mrs. Wagner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in honor of Astronaut Coopers successful Mercury Mission…

Black and white photograph depicting the 24' 6" x 30' 0" living room of the Presidential Suite, the largest room in the largest suite in the Waldorf Towers, circa 1962.

Black and white photograph depicting the 25'-6" x 15'-0" State Dining Room in the Presidential Suite on the 35th floor of the Waldorf Towers, circa 1962.