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John Astor then built the Astoria Hotel and leased it to Boldt.

It was not immediately known whether the name would be changed to Waldorf Astoria or whether it would revert to its former name, The Roosevelt, with the tagline, a Waldorf-Astoria Collection Hotel.

while maintaining the original Waldorf's high standards.The Waldorf-Astoria is historically significant for transforming the contemporary hotel, then a facility for transients, into a social center of the city as well as a prestigious destination for visitors and a part of popular culture. The Waldorf-Astoria was influential in advancing the status of women, who were admitted singly without escorts.

In the 1940s, '50s and '60s, The Roosevelt was home to the World Famous "Blue Room" which brought—for the first time—the best Hollywood and Las Vegas talent to the Deep South on a regular basis.In November 2008, a referendum in Beverly Hills, California was voted on to determine whether developer Oasis West Realty LLC will be allowed to expand the nine-acre site of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, recently owned by the late Merv Griffin, at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards.

A combination hotel and condominium Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower has been announced by third parties to be developed for Hilton in Chicago.On August 24, 2007, Dimension Development Company of Natchitoches, Louisiana announced the purchase of the New Orleans Fairmont Hotel and plans to convert the hotel into a Waldorf-Astoria.

He died in an airplane crash in 1947, and Conrad Hilton bought the Waldorf Astoria in 1949. The “New” Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (1931), by Stanley TurkelIn 2006, Hilton Hotels announced plans to build a second Waldorf-Astoria near Walt Disney World in Florida, and in 2007, plans were announced that another Waldorf-Astoria will be built in Beverly Hills, where Santa Monica Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard cross.

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