Vintage Waldorf-Astoria Wine Card - 1930's

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Vintage Waldorf-Astoria Wine Card - 1930's
10-5/8" high x 8-1/4" wide  -  2 Pages
No date listed within  -  back cover has printing "Design (copyright symbol) 1935"
Other items found with this card are from the 1930's and early 40's.
Condition - Poor to Fair - Vertical fold down the center of the menu causing "spider vein effect." - See scans & photos
The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Manhattan, New York City. The hotel has been housed in two historic landmark buildings in New York. The first, bearing the same name, was built in two stages, as the Waldorf Hotel and the Astor Hotel, which accounts for its dual name. That original site was situated on Astor family properties along Fifth Avenue and opened in 1893. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the construction of the Empire State Building. The present building, at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, is 47-stories and was completed in 1931. The current hotel was the world's tallest hotel from 1931 until 1963
From its inception, the Waldorf Astoria gained international renown for its lavish dinner parties and galas, often at the center of political and business conferences and fundraising schemes involving the rich and famous.
The hotel has had many well-known under its roof throughout its history, including Charlie Chaplin, Ava Gardner, Liv Ullmann, Edward G. Robinson, Gregory Peck, Ray Bolger, John Wayne, Tony Bennett, Jack Benny, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Muhammad Ali, Vince Lombardi, Judy Garland, Liberace, Burt Reynolds. Due to the number of high-profile guests staying at the hotel at any one time, author Ward Morehouse III has referred to the Towers as a "kind of vertical Beverly Hills. On any one given night you might find Dinah Shore, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra or Zsa Zsa Gabor staying there". During the 1930s, gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel owned an apartment at the Waldorf and Frank Costello was said to have got his haircut and nails done in the Barber's Shop at the Waldorf. Around the time of World War I, inventor Nikola Tesla lived in the earlier Waldorf-Astoria. In 1955, Marilyn Monroe stayed at the hotel for several months but due to costs of trying to finance her production company "Marilyn Monroe Productions", only being paid ,500 a week for her role in The Seven Year Itch and being suspended from 20th Century Fox for walking out on Fox after creative differences, living at the hotel became too costly and Monroe had to move into a different hotel in New York City.