Dad said it used to be a girl’s finishing school many years ago.ĭuring their first visit to the states to appear on the Sullivan show, Dad almost canceled the Beatles reservation fearing that there would be disruption to the hotel because of their popularity. It was quite a nice apartment, actually a duplex. We used to live up in the penthouse on the 18th floor it was leased to Gourmet magazine for a number of years, and after their lease ended we lived there from 1964 to 1968. He realized the PR potential for The Plaza through the years and did as much as he could to publicize anything related to “Eloise.” It worked like a charm. He was a close friendĪnd confidant of Kay Thompson’s, and she immortalized him in the first and last “Eloise” books. He also managed the hotel in the early 1950s prior to moving to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to manage the Caribe Hilton. Salomone Jr., was the Plaza’s general manager and managing director during the 1960s.

Salomone explained in a City Room comment on Wednesday: Salomone and his siblings are among the few who can say they actually lived the life of Eloise as children. Thanks to Kay Thompson’s “Eloise” books, The Plaza Hotel stirs up childhood memoriesįor many people who may have never stayed there. Into a luxury condominium and hotel, (spending “ more than the gross domestic product of Monaco,” as Anthony Ramirez of The Times The Plaza Hotel reopened this month, after the El-Ad Group of Israel turned the Central Park South landmark

In 1969, the author Kay Thompson mimicked her young friend Eloise in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel.

Eloise at the plaza book