Horn & Hardart, USA, 1944 Clark's roadside restaurants and hotels

roadside restaurants and hotels

One of its quirky attractions was 'cockroach racing

and lacked modern amenities such as en-suite bathrooms

with its depiction of beautifully attired men and women at leisure

Horn & Hardart, USA, 1944 Clark's roadside restaurants and hotelsJoseph Horn and Frank Hardart, who introduced the idea of food vending machines to America, started in the restaurant business in 1888 when they opened a 15 stool luncheonette in Philadelphia. Inspired by Automat restaurants in Berlin, the businessmen opened their first automat in 1902 in Philadelphia. Women called nickel throwers exchanged larger coins and bills for customers who were instructed to drop five cent pieces into slots, turn chrome plated