<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1nNzHF_1GwHWh8y00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1nNzHF_1GwHWh8y00" width="700" height="394" ><figcaption>From "The Automat" documentary By permission-Lisa Hurwitz</figcaption></figure><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rc5Dmb48StU?feature=oembed" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div><p>ELLENVILLE – For decades, Horn &amp; Hardart’s Automats were the democratic heart of New York City, where a handful of nickels bought hot comfort food behind gleaming glass doors. The magic was remembered at the Borscht Belt Film Festival last weekend with Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary <i>The Automat</i>.</p><p>Collector Steve Stallman rescued and preserved original coin-operated dispensing machines from the city’s restaurants and stored them in Ellenville.</p><p>“I started displaying them in my shop on Houston Street, and people started coming in and saying, ‘Oh my God, is that really the Automat?’ And they started telling me their stories, their Automat tales.”</p><p>Lisa Hurwitz directed the documentary <i>The Automat</i> and was instantly drawn to the storied restaurant when she did some research on cafeterias while in college:</p><p>“I discovered that before fast food, cafeterias were the way that Americans ate out en masse,” she said. “And of all of the cafeterias that I came across, Automat was the one that really got me.”</p><p>Stallman summed it up:</p><p>“Cheaper methods and cheaper products came along and said, ‘No, it’s not margarine, it’s butter,” he said, giggling.</p></div></body>

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ELLENVILLE – For decades, Horn & Hardart’s Automats were the democratic heart of New York City, where a handful of nickels bought hot comfort food behind gleaming glass doors. The magic was remembered at the Borscht Belt Film Festival last weekend with Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary The Automat.

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