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In popular culture

Films

In the 1934 Sylvia Sidney comedy Thirty-Day Princess an important early scene takes place in a New York Automat.

In the screwball comedy Easy Living (1937), a whole scene took place at a New York Automat.

In the post-apocalyptic film The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959 film) (1959), Harry Belafonte's character walks past a Horn & Hardart Automat on a New York City street after the apocalypse.

In the Doris Day – Cary Grant romantic comedy That Touch of Mink (1962), Doris Day's roommate works in a Horn & Hardart Automat in Midtown Manhattan. The film also has several amusing comic bits involving the Automat's glass-door vending hatches.

In the animated series The Flintstones (1960 - 1966) episode 24 season 1 entitled "The Long Long Weekend", Gus Gravel has Lunch at an automat for sentimental reasons.

In Hitchcock’s “Marnie”, 1964, Mark Rutland’s father, played by Alan Napier, loves Horn and Hardart products.

In the film Rosemary's Baby (1968), the reflection of Horn & Hardart can be seen in the window of the Time-Life Building when Rosemary is waiting to meet her friend Hutch.

In the film Midnight Cowboy (1969), John Voight's character Joe Buck eats ketchup soup at an automat while seated with a woman who is playing with a toy mouse.

In the film Rocky (1976), in a scene set on Thanksgiving, Rocky says the last time he ate turkey was at Horn and Hardart's.

In the film Winter Kills (1979), a Horn & Hardart automat at the corner of Juniper Avenue and Commerce Street in Center City, Philadelphia is glimpsed in the background of a scene in which Jeff Bridges' character escapes an assassination attempt outside Philadelphia City Hall.

In the film Trading Places (1983), a glimpse of an Automat is briefly seen in the Philadelphia train station.

In the film When Harry Met Sally... (1989), one of the interviewed couples mentions meeting at a Horn & Hardart.

In the film Metropolitan (1990), pivotal plot points occur as the characters dine at a Horn & Hardart.

In the film Dark City (1998), Rufus Sewell's character is seen going into an Automat to retrieve his wallet.

In the film King Kong (2005), a Horn & Hardart restaurant is prominently featured in scenes at street level in New York City.

Literature

In his 1963 book Memoirs of a Mangy Lover, comedian Groucho Marx recounts a dispute he had with an Automat attendant over a nickel.

Charles Wright's 1963 book The Messenger mentions Horn and Hardart as a place where women working for charities hold their meetings "over tea and rolls, once a week, between two and four p.m."

In Ira Levin's novel Rosemary's Baby (1967), Horn & Hardart pumpkin pie is mentioned as the "best dessert".

It was mentioned in Jean Shepherd's bestselling short story collection In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash (1966), when Ralph says to Flick, "I was down at H & H", later explaining that he was talking about Horn & Hardart in New York City. Shepherd's most famous story, "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid," which the film A Christmas Story was based on, begins in the Automat when Shepherd is inspired to recall his BB gun memories after encountering a woman wearing a button declaring "Disarm the Toy Industry!"

In From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967), by E. L. Konigsburg, Claudia and Jamie eat "breakfast", including macaroni and cheese casserole, baked beans, and coffee, at Horn & Hardart's as they read about the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibit of the bargain-bought "Angel" statue in The New York Times.

Museum exhibits

In November 2002, the Museum of the City of New York had a special Automat centennial exhibition featuring photographs, artifacts, original furniture, china and vending machine panels.

Music

Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" lyrics mention the Automat.

Stage productions

In Act 2 of Neil Simon's Broadway play The Odd Couple (1965), during the discussion of how to salvage the burned London Broil dinner, Cecily Pigeon advises "Well then, we can eat up in our place. We have tons of Horn & Hardart's."

In the Broadway play The Nance (2013), Chauncey Miles frequents a Horn & Hardart Automat at a certain time of the evening when gay men congregate to find sexual partners.

Television

In the television series Agent Carter, the main characters often meet in the Automat in New York City.

In the season 4, episode 14 Arrested Development, titled "Off The Hook", Lucille 2 complains to her lover Buster Bluth that she is "nothing but a Horn & Hardart" to you, in response to his expecting her to mother him with food. Buster Bluth mistakes the name of the restaurant for a sexual innuendo.

In "The Party", a seventh season episode of M*A*S*H, the relatives of the 4077th's personnel, after their "reunion" in New York, decide to eat at the Automat.

The Honeymooners main characters, Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton, are shown inside an automat, searching for a radio show prize, in the "Lost" Honymooners season 5 episode, "Finders Keepers".

Visual art

Artist Edward Hopper's painting Automat (1927) is part of the collection of the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa.