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...From the outside it looks like a Pepsi-Cola bottling factory. From the inside it looks like Horn & Hardart's automat. But it's pretty as a picture and it works like a charm...
...final jingle of change through the slot above the lion-head spout served a cup of coffee for eternity. Last week Horn & Hardart closed the nation's last surviving Automat, on New York City's 42nd Street, two blocks east of Grand Central station. First opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...
When Lamont Library opened in 1949, The Crimson described the then-futuristic building as a "Pepsi Cola bottling factory" outside and an "automat" inside...
Many New Yorkers are nostalgic for the art deco diners that once thrived in the city's neighborhoods. Others yearn for the specialties that used to be prepared for the Horn & Hardart Automat cafeterias. A new spot on Manhattan's East Side aims to satisfy both groups. Dine-O-Mat, a '50s-style chrome and neon diner, features many of the old Horn & Hardart dishes. And why not? H&H owns the budget-priced eatery and plans to open three more around New York this year...
Elvis Presley throbs from the jukebox as bobby-soxed waiters and waitresses improvise dance steps between servings. A young business crowd samples such unautomated Automat classics as fish cakes, macaroni and cheese, and chicken pot pie, all of which, alas, pale beside memories of the originals. The menu also includes diet-destroying desserts like the $12.95 "Kitchen Sink" sundae. Dine-O-Mat's gravy has the consistency of fudge sauce, but the mashed potatoes are good, and the trip back in time is sustaining...