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 Shopping & Dining Diners, soda fountains, supermarkets and department stores |  Travel Motels, hotels, vacation spots, gas stations and train travel | |||
 Nightlife Taverns, nightclubs and ballrooms |  Town & Country Views of city, small town and rural life | |||
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 New York City: Horn & Hardart Automat At the Automat, everything was dispensed from machines. Customers put their nickels in, made their selections, and opened the glass doors to get their food. The coffee was especially good. Automat History Meet Me At The Automat | ----- |
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 soda fountains lunch counters soda shops
drive-ins | street vendors hamburger joints The fast food industry continued to grow in the 1940s, as automobile travel became more common. Thanks to car hops and curb service, you didn't even have to get out of your car! In the city, hot dog stands and ice cream vendors were popular. The highways were dotted with snack stands that looked like the food they were selling. Giant hot dogs, chickens, doughnuts, pigs, milk bottles and root beer barrels served as both buildings and advertisements. A&W Jilly's Drive-In Restaurant Page The McDonald Brothers Drive-In Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs White Castle Tail O' The Pup Roadside Eateries With "Big Food" Vintage Roadside Eateries Superdawg
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|  You could never go hungry in the city, where there were restaurants of all sizes and types. Italian and Chinese restaurants served up Americanized versions of their native cuisines, and we soon fell in love with dishes like chop suey, pizza and spaghetti with meatballs.  The Howard Johnson chain of ice cream parlors was born in the 1920s. By the 1940s, the company was serving complete meals at clean, colonial-style restaurants. Every service plaza along the new Pennsylviana Turnpike had a Howard Johnson's restaurant, and it was these locations that helped keep the chain in business during the lean war years.  The Checker-Checks Diner on route 66 in Arizona fine dining | fancy restaurants The Trader Vic's chain of restaurants popularized Asian cuisine, Polynesian decor and the Mai Tai. After the 1939-40 New York World's Fair was over, the manager of the French Pavillion remained behind and opened the city's premier French restaurant....Le Pavillon.
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Tips On Tables: Nightclubs & Restaurants
From the mid 1930s to the 1950s, we were guided to the best restaurants in the country by Adventures In Good Eating, the traveler's guidebook written by Duncan Hines (the man, not the brownies!)
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|  diners Found predominantly in the eastern United States, diners were factory-built eateries that evolved from horse-drawn lunch wagons. New Jersey Diners Diners Of New York Diner City Ohio Diners
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