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Word: automatics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A World of Books All Their Own | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Requiem for Horn & Hardart | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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