Walk along West 38th Street in the Garment District and you’ll catch a glimpse of one of the last remaining Horn & Hardart signs in the city, painted a lifetime ago on the brick back of 1385 Broadway.
Automats are like vending machines where you insert coins or swipe a card to get hot food. They boomed in the US in the middle of the last century but have now disappeared. They are thriving in the ...
Wayne >> Everything old is new again. For example: Horn & Hardart, the iconic Automats that were ubiquitous in Philadelphia and New York. A West Chester couple, Dawn and Al Mazzone, is bringing back ...
Another journey into the past, “The Automat” returns us to the days when Horn & Hardart’s “automats” ruled Philadelphia and New York City. The brainchild of Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart, and one of ...
The NYPL's upcoming exhibition Lunch Hour NYC won't open to the public until June 22nd—but it already has managed to teach us things we didn't know and whetted our appetite for the full show. Who knew ...
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The rise and fall of the "automat": Why the first fast-food model disappeared
Picture this: you walk into an elegant dining room with marble floors, Art Deco fixtures, and gleaming chrome walls. There ...
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