8thavenue

"New York's most famous Automat was its first, located in Times Square, but Abbott chose to depict the restaurant at Columbus Circle, well-known as a nighttime gathering place for musicians and cabaret-goers. She photographed it from the General Motors Building across the street on the same winter day she photographed the Circle itself. The two images are complementary symbols of modern New York life. "Abbott's photograph illustrates the restaurant's mechanized character. With the sharp diagonal of coin-operated, Deco-styled windows receding indefinitely into space, the photograph shows food and its consumers on a culinary assembly line." (more)-- Museum of the City of New York

Wow, has anyone ever played a video game called Bioshock? Art deco heaven just like this.

I took this photo at the Lunch Hour exhibit at the Schwarzman building and didn't realize the reference until I got my film back!

If you go to the LOC website, you can get a hi-res version of the pic that allows a closer look at some of the details otherwise invisible on Flickr. There's a street sign that clearly places this at Columbus Circle and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. There's also a Child's Restaurant (a pioneering chain restaurant) and a Cadillac showroom.

here is a link to Google Maps, you can use street view to see what it looks like today. www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=colu...

Noticing the prices.

98 cent toasters look good

This is great. Such a contrast to the drugstores we have nowadays. I think I'm going to use this in my revised blog post Anxiety Beta Blocker to show the difference between yesteryear and today.

ha, try to get a parking space now! www.nytix.com/Blog/newyorkcity/uploaded_images/farley-715...