above from:http://www.retrothing.com/2008/08/horn-and-hardar.html
I first encountered the concept of the "Automat" through the New York junkie authors of the Beat Generation: Herbert Huncke and William Burroughs. Huncke talks about "becoming part of the crowd that hung around the cafeterias - Bickford's - Chase's - Hector's - the Automat - and many of the places of business which remained open all night" (The Evening Sun Turned Crimson 101).
above:
"Automat, New York City
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts
This month in Photo of the Day: Images From the National Geographic Archive
Patrons line up "like payday depositors" in a bank, waiting to drop a few nickels in a slot for favorites like baked beans and Salisbury steak, freshly made each day and kept in "post-officelike boxes." This New York City Automat, described in the March 1942 National Geographic, was part of an East Coast chain that sold 72,000 pieces of pie a day.
From the National Geographic Image Collection"
from:
___________________________________________________________________
I first encountered the concept of the "Automat" through the New York junkie authors of the Beat Generation: Herbert Huncke and William Burroughs. Huncke talks about "becoming part of the crowd that hung around the cafeterias - Bickford's - Chase's - Hector's - the Automat - and many of the places of business which remained open all night" (The Evening Sun Turned Crimson 101).
Automats were cafeterias where food and drink was available on plates and in cups in the little glass windows of banks of machines. One put coins into a slot, opened the window, and took out the food.
They originated just after the turn of the century, and became a fixture of life in northeastern cities, Horn & Hardarts being the archetype, the 'McDonalds of automats.' They figured prominently in the New York drug culture & criminal underworld of the 1950s because they were extremely cheap, very busy, anonymous & impersonal... and stayed open all night, so one could meet a connection at 3 AM, or loiter there indefinitely. But they also figured prominently in the lives of average New Yorkers, and the inhabitants of other northeastern cities, being the urban fast food of the first half of the 20th century.
Though they were virtually the heyday of the automat, the 1950s also sowed the seeds of its demise. With the rise of the suburban automobile-dependent lifestyle in the '50s came a new fast-food model that would come to dominate: the drive-through burger joint.
by Palmer Foley
Based on our experience, the food is consistent, tasty, packed with flavour, and come in hearty portions. food delivery kota damansara
ReplyDelete