Horn & Hardart has had mixed results from two experimental Dine-O-Mat restaurants in Manhattan, which Mr. Schupak described as ''50's diners with an automat menu.'' The Dine-O-Mat on Third Avenue In 1912, the partners began building restaurants in New York, starting with an Automat in Times Square. H&H Automats were particularly popular during the Depression era. By the early 1950s, there were a total of 157 Horn & Hardart restaurants with Automats in Philadelphia and New York serving more than half a million patrons per day.
Horn & Hardart Automat, West 33rd Street; exterior. The unkind decade of the 1970s saw most Horn & Hardart outlets in New York rebranded and redesigned as Burger Kings, so very few of the original façades survive. 2 Lost with the happy childhood memories are the wonderful Art Deco Automats of the 1920s and 1930s; just one––at Broadway and
They had been around since the 19th century, and mostly disappeared 30 years ago. Now automats are coming back, with some 21st century improvements. The food vending machines are a piece of

Soon, more stores and more food were added in both Philly and New York City. The automats operated very successfully for decades. The last Horn and Hardart in New York closed in 1991. Lisa used a Wikipedia page that listed famous Philadelphians and that’s how she enlisted people to interview about the Automat like former Mayor Wilson Goode.

Menu Of The Week: Breakfast At Horn & Hardart, 1940. Every week, we tap into the deep recesses of the New York Public Library's vast archive of old menus to take a look at the history of dining out. Click here for more Menus of the Week. The name Horn & Hardart is synonymous with the word automat. 1ah8d.
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