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Horn & Hardart was a food services company in the United States noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia, New York City, and Baltimore. [1] Horn & Hardart automats ushered in the fast food era and at their height, they were the largest restaurant chain in the world, with 88 locations.
Postcard photo of the Horn & Hardart automat on 57th Street in New York City. Date: circa 1930 's by the look of the card and the photos on it. ... Horn & Hardart ...
as the card says to visit the New York World's Fair. The card is earlier than the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. Source: eBay item card front. card back: Author: Horn & Hardart/Lumitone Photography, New York
Diehl, Lorraine B.; Hardart, Marianne (November 19, 2002). The Automat: The History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart's Masterpiece. New York: Clarkson_Potter. ISBN 978-0-609-61074-9. OCLC 1298810185. [26] [27] [28] Automatic restaurants, Der Spiegel; Meet Me at the Automat By Carolyn Hughes Crowley, Smithsonian; Before Horn & Hardart ...
The following locations were not necessarily built by the Childs Company, but are notable for other reasons: New York 41 Cortlandt Street, New York, NY (first location) 42 East 14th Street, New York, NY (longtime corporate headquarters, also housed a restaurant) [88] 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY (corporate headquarters in later years) [63]
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Bickford's architect was F. Russell Stuckert, who had been associated with Samuel Bickford since 1917. Stuckert's father, J. Franklin Stuckert, had designed buildings for Horn & Hardart in the 1890s. [3] During the 1920s, the Bickford's chain expanded rapidly with 24 lunchrooms in the New York area and others around Boston.
Horn & Hardart, Times Square (1912), New York City. D'Ascenzo Studios created Art Nouveau interiors (and later stained glass facades) for Horn & Hardart restaurants, a chain of about fifty automats that began in Philadelphia in 1902. [3] The company's flagship restaurant in New York City (1912) was on Broadway at Times Square. [4]