#automats

[newyorkthegoldenage]

There were so many Horn & Hardart automats in the city around 1950 that the company issued as directory of them.

Photo: Museum of the City of New York (MCNY)

[peonymoss]

Fic Update: "Quo Vadis", Chapter 68

An “Agent Carter” * prequel: How Daniel Sousa got that lead, and his long journey through recovery to the SSR.

This chapter: “Interviews”

[stoplookingup]

Today in Fandom Is Not Just for the Young:

I love this show:

And I've eaten at one of these:

[nonelvis]

as I rewatch the second episode of Loki series 2 I am suddenly realizing that there are probably children people much younger than I am learning about Automats for the first time from this episode, and let me tell you, it is one of the great regrets of my life that I am old enough to have been able to visit an Automat but never lived or visited somewhere that had them until they were gone

anyway, please watch this documentary about the Automat, which features Mel Brooks, it is absolutely worth it

(p.s. available for free via Kanopy if your local library has a subscription)

[tylenol-tism]

Boomers cry about ordering at a kiosk meanwhile this is how their parents ate

[dark-east]

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

In this era of COVID, can we please bring back automats?