![]() ![]() The Astor’s luxurious guest rooms boasted ornate furnishings more significantly, it served as a theater of the wealthy for anyone who had a natty enough suit to sit in the lobby. He became America’s first millionaire with his fur-trading business and began the tradition of building magnificent hotels as personal tribute in 1834 with his Astor on Broadway, built at a time when “hotels” were mostly “roadside inns” where guests often shared beds as “snuggly” as Ishmael and Queequeg in the opening chapter of Moby-Dick. Their forebear, John Jacob Astor, was born in 1763, the son of a butcher in Waldorf, Germany. ![]() ![]() The financiers of the Waldorf-Astoria were members of the dynastic Astor family. ![]()
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