Chopstick, Boston, 1950s Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was originally

The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was originally located on 34th Street and 5th Avenue

and then they would fill up their cars with gas and get on their way

Scores of celebrities patronised the Biltmore and in 1927 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences decided after a meeting in the hotel’s Crystal Ballroom to launch an awards ceremony called The Oscars

Though the Great Depression (1929 – 39) was tightening its grip on the United States

This was one of the earliest declarations of the rights of gay people in the United States

Chopstick, Boston, 1950s Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was originallyThis is the only menu we have seen with a foreword a note from the management offers to "soothe the palates of the most fastidious" with Chinese or American food. It also warns in red letters that intoxicating liquor is strictly prohibited on the premises and that people must only dance with their own escorts. This was Boston dining in the 1950s we are going to assume that the quality of the food made up for all the rules. There are great graphics on