Horn & Hardart - West Babylon
Rita recorded “Horn & Hardart - West Babylon” for 1969.
Client context: a circa-1930 Horn & Hardart Automat publicity postcard. Not a photograph of the unresolved West Babylon project and not confirmed as Joseph's project building.
1930 · Horn & Hardart / Lumitone Photography · public domain via Wikimedia Commons · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Open
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Unresolved
Rita’s list
Transcription: Horn & Hardart - West Babylon — 1969
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
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“Horn & Hardart - West Babylon — 1969”
The exact project or site has not yet been identified.
Horn & Hardart made lunch feel futuristic: a few nickels opened little glass doors to pie, macaroni and cheese or Salisbury steak, while unseen staff kept the compartments filled. The chain served millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. Rita's West Babylon entry suggests the company carried that machine-age food system into Long Island, but the exact 1969 facility is still unknown.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Unresolved
The masonry package on this job has not been established. The entry rests on the family record alone, and nothing further is claimed here.
The construction team
The construction team for this job has not yet been established.
What happened to it
Unknown
Sources
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- 01commons.wikimedia.org
File:Horn & Hardart automat.JPG
- 02mcny.org
moonlight movies automat
- Horn & Hardart / Lumitone Photography · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · circa 1930
Horn & Hardart Automat publicity postcard, circa 1930, showing how the Automat worked. Client and brand context only.
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