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The Walls of the Waldorf Astoria
- gotem 6y agoSince when has Bloomberg been riddled with this many ads?
- ComputerGuru 6y agoPeople that would notice and object to ads would typically be aware that there’s a fairly easy way to block them.
- esperent 6y agoOr they are using a mobile browser.
- rocha 6y agoI find https://adguard.com/ https://adguard.com/ very handy for those cases.
- ciceryadam 6y agoFirefox on Android has uBlock, plus you can set nextdns on your phone as well.
- c22 6y agoI just loaded this on mobile Chrome with JavaScript off (like usual) and I didn't see any ads. The images were fuzzy for some reason, though--a strangely common "feature" I've noticed on a lot of websites over the last few years.
- jppope 6y agoIts really an amazing bar... it birthed quite a few classic cocktails (of course open to debate). 100% a historic establishment.
- SeanLuke 6y ago> Still-functioning equipment in the Waldorf Astoria's audio room Um, okay. That's an Ashley MX-508, a very modern professional analog mixer currently selling for $1800 new. This is like looking at a Tesla Model S and saying "still functioning historic car".
- LeoPanthera 6y agoI think the point was that the audio room is still an audio room, not that it has "still" working equipment in it.
- phjesusthatguy3 6y agoNo, that's a caption on a photo of a modern analog mixer.
- closeparen 6y agoA Hyundai Elantra maybe.
- SeanLuke 6y agoI own a Samson SM-10. That is a Hyunadai Elantra. This is not.
- skrebbel 6y agoHah! Wow that's pretty amazing. I wonder how much more about the article is absolutely bogus.
- criddell 6y agoThis is Bloomberg. They wouldn't make stuff up. /s
- Animats 6y agoOh, "Roosevelt's railroad car" again. That was finally hauled out in 2019 and is now in a small railroad museum.[1] It's just an old baggage car used for tool storage. FDR did arrive at that siding by train once, and took the elevator up to the Waldorf-Astoria, but he used a different railroad car, the "Ferdinand Magellan". Truman and Eisenhower used it while President. It's in a bigger railroad museum.[2] [1] https://untappedcities.com/2019/12/12/secret-fdr-train-car-no-longer-beneath-grand-central-and-was-never-his/ https://untappedcities.com/2019/12/12/secret-fdr-train-car-n... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan_(railcar) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan_(railcar)
- dzink 6y agoI think that ballroom secret service box can be seen in Home Alone 2, when the boy is stuck in NYC and goes to see a performance from the attic in the company of the pigeon lady. Photographic memory, but no specific evidence.
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- joncrane 6y agoI kind of feel like there's a vein of culture in humanity that celebrates opulence. Solid gold plates? Exclusive entrances that only rich people know about? I hope for a day when spending money simply for the sake of spending money becomes passe and humanity acknowledges that the strongest virtue signalling comes from things like what Chuck Feeney, and perhaps to a lesser extent, Bill Gates do.
- T3OU-736 6y agoPlease consider updating title to include a 2016 tag.
- sixQuarks 6y agoI vaguely remember staying there on a business trip. One of our executives was so drunk, the bellhops had to carry him through the lobby.
- pjmorris 6y agoThe Waldorf-Astoria played a minor part in my family's history. My grandfather worked as a dishwasher there when he first emigrated. Really cool to learn a bit more about the place.
- diebeforei485 6y ago7 minutes to JFK? That seems very optimistic.
- x87678r 6y agoNice change from the typical American chain hotel.