1. The library’s new exhibition, Lunch Hour NYC, opens Friday. In the New York Times yesterday, Sam Roberts wrote about the Automat, a very popular chain of lunch spots which opened in New York 100 years ago this July. The article has elicited over 100 comments so far, mostly people sharing their memories of these memorable restaurants. Do you have any stories about the Automat?

    The library’s new exhibition, Lunch Hour NYC, opens Friday. In the New York Times yesterday, Sam Roberts wrote about the Automat, a very popular chain of lunch spots which opened in New York 100 years ago this July. The article has elicited over 100 comments so far, mostly people sharing their memories of these memorable restaurants.

    Do you have any stories about the Automat?

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    Am I alone in thinking (hoping?) that there is still...place for the automat
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    Yum!
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  10. xombiewoof answered: while traveling across country, found an abandoned rail station that still had machines, power was on and even though empty, still functioned
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  16. paulynwong answered: Sad, I saw sewing machines made people loss job in Hong Kong —-stephen.
  17. rufiousreader answered: My only experience with an Automat was in Philly at the Franklin Institute or Instytute as Philly people would call it.
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