What was the name food vending...?
The food was freshly prepared and slid through the other side. You also paid to open a little door to get your service-forks, etc. These places were quite the rage in NYC, Chicago and ? Rather like a cross between a cafeteria and vending machines. was it xxx-mat? |
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Brain explosion............they were Automats!! Went back to early 1900s. Google it. Thanks for letting me punch a hole in my brain allowing in some fresh air.  |
SheepieBoss wrote: Brain explosion............they were Automats!! Went back to early 1900s. Google it. Thanks for letting me punch a hole in my brain allowing in some fresh air.
LOL-- Glad you thought of it. Doesn't it just drive you nuts, when it is right on the tip of your tongue???  |
| when i was a little kid ( and i'm not THAT old) I ate at the last of the Automats in Manhattan. It was really cool.
Seems if you Google "Manhattan" and "Automat" there's a new one that has opened up. And I found this COOL old photo link I love Google. |
The hospital cafeteria, off hours. 
Every kind of sandwich and soup and whatever, all for the deposit of a few dollars, the rotation of the shelf and the opening of a door! |
SheepieBoss wrote: Brain explosion............they were Automats!! Went back to early 1900s. Google it. Thanks for letting me punch a hole in my brain allowing in some fresh air. Do you remember the Jerry Lewis movie where he ate at one of those??? LOL My husband loves Jerry Lewis movies. Me I could take them or leave them. |
I never knew what an Automat was until I saw an old B&W movie with Audrey Hepburn that had one in it not that long ago. I always wondered what Frank Sinatra meant when he sang that lyric "you can't find that at the Automat". I thought it was an "auto mat" like what you put in the floorboard of your car.  |
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