Automats in Movies.

[dm16...@gmail.com]

Automats in movies.

"Audrey Meadows worked there in “That Touch of Mink.” Marlo Thomas met a photographer there in an episode of “That Girl.” Joan Crawford longs for a fellow patron’s pie in “Sadie McKee.” In “Easy Living,” Jean Arthur calmly digests her beef potpie while cafeteria chaos ensues. Neeley ate there in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” An Irving Berlin ditty evokes the place (“let’s have another cup of coffee”) as do the lyrics of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” The advertising slogan “Less work for mother” became a middle-class mantra.

The place was the Automat, which in New York first opened July 2, 1912, in Times Square. The gleaming machines were successfully marketed as gleaming, newfangled gadgets that dispensed fresh food barely touched by human hands. Eventually, more than 40 Automats and cafeterias opened in New York.9:47 PM 3/17/2013"

One movie that is not mentioned there is _Affair with a Stranger_ . An Automat is where Jean Simmons and Victor Mature meet. Jean eats there and becomes curious about a man (Mature) who comes in and heads straight for the table where the free condiments are and concocts a weird looking cocktail from the elements. It turns out Mature is a writer who is broke.

Can anyone else think of any other movies where automats are featured?

Dave M

[Mack A. Damia]

A scene in "Sadie McKee" (1934) occurs in an automat.

"Thirty Day Princess" (1934).

The workings of an automat were shown in "Easy Living" (1937).

"A Run For Your Money" (1949).

"Just This Once" (1952).

"The Catered Affair" (1956).

Two scenes take place in one Automat in the film "I Wanna Hold Your
Hand" (1978).

In the 1990 film "Metropolitan", pivotal plot points occur as the
characters dine at a Horn & Hardart.

A pivotal scene in "Dark City" (1998) occurs in an automat.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/06/remember-automat/2311/

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[unklbob]

Just saw a movie in the last month or so that had an automat in it,
but it's none of those mentioned, and now it's going to drive me crazy
until I think of it.

Thanks.

[Gil Gamesh]

Back in the 80's, I lived around the corner from the last automat in Manhattan
(42nd/3rd).
In addition to having breakfast there every day, I sometimes noticed film crews
in there at night or on weekends. Don't know what they were making though.

[Bastette]

Lewis wrote:

> I remember Doris Day in an automat. Same movie with the IBM computer, wasn't it?

I don't remember the automat in that movie, but I do remember the final
scene, with all the punch cards flying in all directions.

Are there still automats now? I haven't been to NYC since the 80s. (For
that matter, do other cities have them? I've never seen them anywhere else.)

Bastette

[Gil Gamesh]

"Bastette" wrote in message news:kidgdm$v9s$1...@dont-email.me...

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The last Automat in NY closed in the 90's.
In their heyday, Automats were in many cities.

[notbob]

On 2013-03-20, Gil Gamesh <g...@gam.esh> wrote:

> The last Automat in NY closed in the 90's.
> In their heyday, Automats were in many cities.

Their "heyday" is far from over. They've merely been redesigned and
renamed "vending machine". The Japanese have adopted the concept and
totally run amok:

<http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/07/japan-land-of-vending-machines.html>

I love this machine and its sign:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrissam42/3533044830/

ME: "I am beer drinking machine. Thank you for asking".


nb

[Gil Gamesh]

"notbob" wrote in message news:slrnkkkvja...@nbleet.hcc.net...

On 2013-03-20, Gil Gamesh <g...@gam.esh> wrote:

> The last Automat in NY closed in the 90's.
> In their heyday, Automats were in many cities.

Their "heyday" is far from over. They've merely been redesigned and
renamed "vending machine". The Japanese have adopted the concept and
totally run amok:

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Not the same as the Automat and you know it or else your being deliberately
obtuse.

[Mack A. Damia]

Horn and Hardhart's coffee was excellent. Five cents a cup. Recall
the unusual spouts from which the coffee poured?

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[dm16...@gmail.com]

Not the same as an automat but I like the idea and I hope it catches on here. Very convenient. I remember here in Toronto way back in the seventies there were vending machines in busy locations where you could get sandwiches and the last time I was in London, England on every floor of the hotel where I was staying there was a vending machine with canned beer - a lot cheaper than room service!!

Dave M

[bermuda999]

Isn't there a scene in The Beatles' "Help" in which Ringo buys something from a automat and then someone's hand comes out through the slot to try to take the ring off his finger?

[dm16...@gmail.com]

Don't remember that but in _That Touch of Mink_ the hand of Audrey Meadows comes through the slot and slaps Gig Young's face.

[notbob]

"An automat is a fast food restaurant where simple foods and drink are
served by coin-operated and bill-operated vending machines."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

I qualified my claim by stating they had been "redesigned". By your
refusal to acknowlege the obvious, I can only assume you are either
incredibly stubborn or remarkably stupid.

nb

[Gil Gamesh]

"notbob" wrote in message news:slrnkklm9e...@nbleet.hcc.net...

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Automat was a trademarked brand name.
It's obvious you have never even seen an Automat, much less eaten in one.
You are incredibly stupid and remarkably stubborn.

[Robb Scott]

In article <u2rik89pvtg5vaeqj...@4ax.com>,

Mack A. Damia <mybaco...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> In the 1990 film "Metropolitan", pivotal plot points occur as the
> characters dine at a Horn & Hardart.

PDQ Bach wrote the "Concerto for Horn and Hardart"...

[lexic...@gmail.com]

I remember Hot Chocolate coming out of a (metal) Lion's mouth

[don Gabacho]

I was just a kid, but wasn't the coffee Chock Full of Nuts and Horn and Hardharts's the pies?

[william ahearn]

On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 2:26:21 PM UTC-5, don Gabacho wrote:

> I was just a kid, but wasn't the coffee Chock Full of Nuts and Horn and Hardharts's the pies?

Chock Full of Nuts is a coffee company that once ran a sandwich counter. Horn and Hardhart's ran automats, among other things.

[moviePig]

As a young child in the South, I would see in comic books my only view
of automats -- and, giving no thought to what went on behind the little
doors, I imagined such vendors to be futuristic technology writ large...

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