Starlight Roof Waldorf Astoria Xavier Cugat Cover, New York 1930s

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Starlight Roof Waldorf Astoria Xavier Cugat Cover, New York 1930sAn icon of glamour and luxury when it was completed in midtown Manhattan in 1931, the Waldorf Astorias Starlight Roof supper club attracted performers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller. Located on the 19th floor, the roof of the club could retract on warm summer evenings, allowing the elegantly dressed socialites who dined there to view the stars. The Starlights bandleader on opening night was the multi talented Xavier Cugat

There were still many poverty-ridden communities in the UK

There are an estimated 2500 members of the men-only Bohemian Club today

said to be the original Fat Boy

Hollis "Bud" Sheely was a retired baseball player and he and his wife Jo owned three Pancake Parade restaurants in the Sacramento area

Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Collections

the hotel completed a $25 million renovation with rooms designed by Yabu Pushelberg

kept audiences in stitches

It has been beautifully thought out by its creator and would make anyone want to drink a cocktail

One of the most popular dances was the Samoan Fire Knife Dance when a dancer twirled two knives with wax wicks on the tips of the blades that had been set alight

More than 300 years after it was founded

the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs

He was also offered a 10-week acting contract for $250 a week

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