Description
Black and white photograph depicting the General’s widow, Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, and General Manager Joseph Rantisi in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel on August 5, 1983. For decades Art Deco ornamental grilles, part of the Grand Ballroom’s original design scheme, had been concealed by 30-foot canvas murals, the removal of which (by workers on 30-foot-high cherry pickers) marked the turning point in a $2 million restoration of the famous space. The murals were later donated to the Christ Church at Park Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan.