"The Norse Grill...The map shows Metropolitan Sports Centers"

"The Norse Grill...The map shows Metropolitan Sports Centers"

Black and white photograph depicting the Norse Grill Restaurant from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.

This Scandinavian-style restaurant featured massive columns of limestone supporting heavy carved wooden beams. The walls are paneled in chestnut. The huge mural/map indicates the golf clubs, tennis clubs, yacht clubs and polo fields in the metropolitan area.

Smith, Richard Averill

The Waldorf-Astoria

1934

Histories & Publications

Smith, R.A. (1935). The Waldorf-Astoria. New York: The Waldorf-Astoria.

Lent, H.B. (1934). The Waldorf –Astoria: A Brief chronicle of a unique institution now entering its fifth decade. New York: private printing for the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corporation.

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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present

Norse Grill

1931 - 1939

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