| 41. | Automats, which were open at all hours of the day, were also busy, noisy and anonymous.
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| 42. | Several weeks later, however, Ned finds Chauncey again at the automat, looking for one-night stands.
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| 43. | Many diners were also historically placed near factories which operated 24 hours a day, with Automat all-night restaurant.
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| 44. | Like Eisen and so many others, she remembers the Gaiety Delicatessen, the Automat and other emblems of a bygone time.
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| 45. | Always the innovative hostess, she gave a party at the Automat in New York, using her own china and linen.
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| 46. | 1902 _ The first Automat restaurant, a waiterless eatery where customers choose their meals from vending machines, opens in Philadelphia.
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| 47. | The restaurants remained popular into the 1960s with automats, sit-down waitress service restaurants, cafeterias, and bakery shops.
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| 48. | By 1968 the once proud streamliner had three cars : a baggage car, a coach and an automat lunch counter car.
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| 49. | Like the famous AutoMats in New York City in the 1940 timeframe, the Maxwell House Coffee Shops vanished from the scene.
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| 50. | The Automat is not going to be revived, and neither are Loew's Capitol, Orange Julius stands or Walter Winchell.
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