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Louis XVI manner and could be joined with the larger ballroom. Still another adjoining room, "The
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by other members of the Astor family two years later, although that property became commercial office space within a few years. The Astor set the pattern for "a new species of popular hotels that soon clustered around Times Square, vast amusement palaces that catered to crowds with scenographic
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American Indian Grill Room decorated with artifacts collected with the help of the
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would soon occupy magnificent new auditoriums along Forty-second Street, and electric lighting transformed this strip of
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meeting place. During World War II, the Astor Bar was one of three
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