Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) Queen Mary was officially retired

Queen Mary was officially retired from service in 1967

" The site of The Friendship House was eventually occupied by an Olive Garden until that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina

was built on a cliff top overlooking the Hudson River and within sight of the George Washington Bridge and the bright lights of Manhattan

the Commodore Hotel was constructed adjacent to Grand Central Station and opened in 1919

except in the South

Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) Queen Mary was officially retiredThe 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels. Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians, mobsters, the shady and the luminousthe entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster during the glory seasonswould stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp