The Persian Room Murals
© Bettmann/CORBIS
Colonel Serge Obolensky
© Edward Carswell/Vogue, Condé Nast Publications, Inc.
The Oak Bar
Dmitri Kessel, Life Magazine © Time Inc.
The George M. Cohan Corner
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
The Cecil Beaton Suite
Dmitri Kessel, Life Magazine © Time Inc.
Greta Garbo in the Cecil Beaton Suite
© Hulton Getty/Liaison Agency
Cecil Beaton photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s London
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Celebrate an Anniversary
© Bettmann/CORBIS
Marlene Dietrich in residence
© Arnold Newman/Liaison Agency/Life Magazine © Time Inc.
Dmitri Kessel, Life Magazine © Time Inc.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Suite
Photographs © 1999 by Pedro E. Guerrero
Frank Lloyd Wright Has His Picture Taken
Photographs © 1999 by Pedro E. Guerrero
Frank Lloyd Wright … On Record
Author’s collection/courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
Photograph © 1999 by Pedro E. Guerrero
In the Persian Room
All photographs, © D’Arlene Studios/Henry Krupka
Author’s collection
bottom left, Eliot Selznick Hubbard collection
Eloise
center photo, Photofest
Patricia Kennedy Weds Peter Lawford
© Harcourt Harris
© Bettmann/CORBIS
Marilyn Monroe and the Broken Shoulder Strap
© Bettmann/CORBIS
Jayne Mansfield in the Tricycle Garage
© D’Arlene Studios/Henry Krupka
Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest
Author’s collection
Photofest
Author’s collection
Jazz at The Plaza
Don Hunstein
Author’s collection
Ike and Mamie and Jack and Jackie
© D’Arlene Studios/Henry Krupka
The Second British Invasion of America
© D’Arlene Studios/Henry Krupka
The Beatles’ Press Conference
© D’Arlene Studios/Henry Krupka
© Bettmann/CORBIS
The Two Eloise Portraits
© D’Arlene Studios/Henry Krupka
Mr. Capote Throws a Party
© Bettmann/CORBIS; Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division, Herald Tribune Photograph Morgue
Museum of the City of New York
The Black and White Ball
© Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos
Svetlana
© Bettmann/CORBIS
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Meet the Press
© D’Arlene Studios/Henry Krupka
Julie Nixon Weds David Eisenhower
© D’Arlene Studios/Henry Krupka
Agence France Presse/Archive Photos
NOW Stages a Protest
Judd Mehlman © New York Daily News
Mrs. Aristotle Onassis
© Bettmann/CORBIS
The Movies and The Plaza
top, left and right, Author’s collection
Author’s collection
top right, Photofest
John and Yoko in the Oyster Bar
Lilo Raymond © 1980
Donald Trump Buys The Plaza
Trump Organization
Author’s collection
Home Alone 2
Photofest
Photofest
Red Grooms at The Plaza
© 2000 Red Grooms/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The Plaza Lighted for a Lingerie Show
Antonio Carvalho
Acknowledgments
The generous cooperation of the following individuals helped make this book possible: Lynda Castillo, Tom Civitano, Joe Cleemann, Antonio Diaz, Pedro Guerrero, Don Hunstein, Eliot Selznick Hubbard, Ken Royer, Sid Kaplan, Christina Krupka, Jay Mulvaney, Tom Norberg, Lilo Raymond, James Sinclair, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Jr., and BertYaeger.
In addition, special thanks to my editor, Charles Spicer, for his enthusiasm and support; Rose Ganguzza for making the introductions at St. Martin’s Press; Anna Mogyorosy, for incomparable photo research; and Gary Schweikert, The Plaza’s general manager, for allowing me access to the hotel’s archives. Indeed, Mr. Schweikert’s commitment to this project is ultimately what brought it to life.
Index
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A
Allen, Harry
Allen, Woody
Alliluyeva, Svetlana
Alwalid bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Saud (prince)
Art Students League
Astaire, Fred
Astor, Alice
Astor, John Jacob
Atlas Corporation
B
Baldwin, Billy
Ballroom
Baroque Room
Bassey, Shirley
Beals, Jessie Tarbox
Beatles
Beaton, Cecil
Beinecke, Bernhard
Bergdorf Goodman
Bergeron, Victor
Bernhardt, Sarah
Billings, Cornelius K. G.
Binns, Joseph
Bitter, Karl
Black, Harry
Black and White Ball
Borge, Victor
Brady, Diamond Jim
Brothers, Dr. Joyce
Burton, Richard
Byron, Joseph
C
Callas, Maria
Campbell, James
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick
Capote, Truman
Carlisle, Kitty
Carlton Hotel
Carr, Vicki
Carroll, Diahann
Caruso, Enrico
Cassini, Oleg
Castle, Irene
Castle, Vernon
CDL Hotels
Champagne Porch
Champion, Gower
Champion, Marge
Channing, Carol
City Beautiful movement
Civil War
Cohan, George M.
Cold War
Columbia Records
Columbus Circle
Conservatory Gardens
Copley Plaza Hotel
Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion
Cugat, Xavier
Culkin, Macaulay
D
Dakota Apartments
Damone, Vic
Davies, Marion
Davis, Miles
DeMarco, Renee
DeMarco, Tony
De Salvo, Anne
Dewey, Thomas
Dietrich, Marlene
Dining Room (Fifth Avenue lobby)
Dior, Christian
Downs, Hugh
Dreyfuss, Henry
Duchess of Windsor
Duchin, Eddy
Duffy Square
Duke, Benjamin
Duke of Windsor
E
Edwardian Room (Men’s Cafe)
E.F. Hutton
Eisenhower, David Dwight, II
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Ellington, Duke
Eloise (Thompson)
Emil Coleman Orchestra
F
Fairmont Hotels
Farrow, Mia
Fisher, Eddie
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Fonda, Jane
Fosse, Bob
François, Jacqueline
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Friedan, Betty
G
Ga
llup poll
Garbo, Greta
Garson, Greer
Gates, John
Gauguin
Gaxton, William
General Motors Building
Goldberg, Whoopi
Gore, Leslie
Gould, George Jay
Gould, Mrs. George Jay
Grace of Monaco (princess)
Graham, Kay
Grand Army Plaza
Grant, Cary
Grant’s Tomb
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)
Green Tulip restaurant
Grill Room
Grooms, Red
Gruppe, Karl
Guerrero, Pedro
Guggenheim Museum
H
Hamilton, George
Handbook of New York City (Moses)
Hanks, Tom
Hardenbergh, Henry Janeway
Harriman, Oliver
Harrison, George
Hastings, Thomas
Hemingway, Ernest
Henderson, Florence
Hildegarde
Hilton, Conrad
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hogan, Paul
Holdridge, Barbara
Holiday, Billie
Holm, Celeste
Home Alone 2 (film)
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hope, Bob
Horizon Press
Hot House at the Green Tulip
Hotel Review
Hudson-Fulton Celebration
Hunstein, Don
Hutton, Barbara
Huxtable, Ada Louise
I
Ives, Burl
J
Jay, William
K
Kennedy, Jacqueline, See also Onassis, Jacqueline
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, John F., Jr.
Kennedy, Patricia
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kennedy, Ted
Kennedy Child Study Center for Retarded Children
Kilgallen, Dorothy
King, Moses
Kitt, Eartha
Knickerbocker Hotel
Knight, Hilary
Konti, Isidore
Krupka, Christina
Krupka, Henry
L
Landis, Jessie Royce
Lane, Abbe
Lawford, Peter
Lennon, John
Liberace
Liebes, Dorothy
Life magazine
Lord Bishop of London
Luce, Clare Boothe
Lumet, Sidney
Lwoff-Parlaghy, Vilma (princess)
M
Macbeth Gallery
Magneta clock
Manhattan Hotel
Mansfield, Jayne
Mantell, Marianne
Marble Row
Martin, Mary
Martinique Hotel
Matthau, Walter
Maugham, Somerset
McCartney, Paul
McKim, Charles
McKim, Mead and White
Men’s Bar (Oak Room)
Men’s Cafe (Edwardian Room)
Mendl, Lady
Merman, Ethel
Metropolitan Club
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Opera
Miller, Arthur
Minnelli, Liza
Molinari, Gigi
Monroe, Marilyn
Monte, Mark
Moore, Dudley
Moore, Victor
Museum of the City of New York
N
New School
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Skating Club
New York World’s Fair
Nichols, Mike
Nixon, Julie
Nixon, Richard
North by Northwest (film)
NOW (National Organization for Women)
O
Oak Bar
Oak Room (Men’s Bar)
Obolensky, Serge
Odlum, Floyd
Odlum, Jacqueline Cochran
Olivier, Laurence
Onassis, Aristotle
Onassis, Jacqueline, See also Kennedy, Jacqueline
Ono, Yoko
Otis Elevator Company
Oyster Bar
P
Palm Court (Tearoom)
Palmedo, Lillian Gaertner
Peale, Norman Vincent
Peck, Raymond
Persian Room
Pfeiffer, Carl
Phyfe, John C.
Pierre Hotel
Place de la Concorde
Plaza Crest
Plaza Restaurant
Plaza Suite (Simon)
Pooley Company
Postcard craze
Powell, Jane
Prince of Wales
Private Mailing Card Act of 1898
Prohibition
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pulitzer Fountain
R
Raeburn, Ben
Raymond, Lilo
Rebozo, Bebe
Redford, Robert
Rendez-vous
Rogers, Ginger
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rose Room
Roth, Lillian
Rudie, Evelyn
Russell, Lillian
S
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
Salomone, Alphonse
Savoy Hotel
Savoy-Plaza Hotel
Scott, George C.
Shaw, George Bernard
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Sherman Monoment
Sherry-Netherland Hotel
Shinn, Everett
Shore, Dinah
Sickles, Daniel E.
Simon, Neil
Sinatra, Frank
Smith, Stephen
Springfield, Dusty
Squibb Building
Stalin, Joseph
Stapleton, Maureen
Starr, Ringo
Sterry, Fred
Stevens, Connie
Straeter, Ted
Streisand, Barbra
T
Taft, William
Taliesin East
Taxicabs
Taylor, Elizabeth
Tearoom (Palm Court)
Terrace Room
Thompson, Kay
Times Square
Trader Vic’s
Tricycle Garage
Trilling, Diana
Truman, Harry
Trump, Donald
Trump, Ivana
Twain, Mark
U
Unitarian Meeting House
United States Hotel
Urban, Joseph
U.S. Realty and Construction Company
V
Van Vechten, Carl
Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II
Vanderbilt Row
Vogue magazine
Volstead Act (see also Prohibition)
W
Waldorf-Astoria
Wanamaker, John
Willard Hotel
Williams, Andy
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Z
Zander Institute
AT THE PLAZA. Copyright © 2000 by Curtis Gathje. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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ISBN 0-312-26174-8
eISBN 9781466867000
First eBook edition: February 2014
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