Saturday, October 10, 2009

Beautiful Picture - Automat, New York City

Photo: People using early food vending machines

This month in Photo of the Day: Images From the National Geographic Archive

Patrons line up "like payday depositors" in a bank, waiting to drop a few nickels in a slot for favorites like baked beans and Salisbury steak, freshly made each day and kept in "post-officelike boxes." This New York City Automat, described in the March 1942 National Geographic, was part of an East Coast chain that sold 72,000 pieces of pie a day.

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