Theodore Jame, Jr., traces the history of the site at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue from its pre-Revolutionary bucolic ambiance through the War of Independence, to the days when the John Jacob Astor house stood, to the era of the legendary old Waldorf-Astoria- and to the present.Theodore Jame, Jr., traces the history of the site at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue from its pre-Revolutionary bucolic ambiance through the War of Independence, to the days when the John Jacob Astor house stood, to the era of the legendary old Waldorf-Astoria- and to the present.