pies

"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!

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.

People will say how unhealthy the food was back then...but you don't see obese people in these photos. Could it be this was a time before our food was injected with so many chemicals?

could it be that they couldn't afford to eat regularly?

This is one of my favorite Russell Lee photos.

Pie Town, I want to move there. What a beautiful photo.

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, if those are pies I'd rather have had cake, but if they're making cakes I'd rather have pie. :)