Procure At The Plaza: An Illustrated History Of The Worlds Most Famous Hotel Scripted By Curtis Gathje Displayed In Manuscript

great visual look at the history of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan in New York City, Nice pictorial history of the great hotel, Not quite coffee table sized, yet a very nice collection of photos, both black and white and color, dating back to thes when the original Plaza was built and following its history through the years with interesting tidbits of the rich and famous who stayed there.
It was a nice follow up to the previous book I read on this famous New York Hotel, At The Plaza is a pictorial record and an anecdotal history of the world's most famous hotel: New York's Plaza.
As a story, it traverses the breadth and scope of Gotham's high society during the American Century, As a photo collection, it's

like no other, capturing the hotel's remarkable presence on the everchanging New York scene,



For almost one hundred years, The Plaza has mirrored the social history of Manhattan: its tastes in design, entertainment, restaurants and accommodations, as well as its adjustment to Prohibition, the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Cold War, women's rights, smokers' rights, animals' rights and British rockandroll.
The first guests to sign the registerMr, and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbiltset the standard for the long procession of luminaries that followed: Mark Twain, Diamond Jim Brady, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Beatles, among many others.


In At The Plaza, the hotel's official historian has compiled a tremendous collection of photographs and vignettes chronicling the colorful history of a building, an institution, and a city.
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