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Posted by BxBus on Tue Jul 21 17:34:05 2015, in response to Re: Bx11, 170th Street Crosstown, posted by Joe on Mon Jul 20 21:46:46 2015. Thanks, Joe, for bringing back memories of the Automats. As an adult I lived virtually across the street from the 104th/Broadway building when it was a supermarket, and often admired it's lingering memories of a wonderful place to eat. As a kid living in the Bronx, my parents would take me to visit my aunts in Washington Heights, taking the Burnside Avenue trolley west to the 181st St. terminus it shared with a multitude of other street car lines. We would walk a few steps from the trolley to the 181st St. Automat. My Dad would give me a few quarters, and I would put them down on the marble counter of the cashier's booth. Before I even got them out of my hand the cashier had placed a pile of nickels in the counter's indentation for me. The speed with which the happened was incredible to me. And then the baked beans, minute steak with spaghetti, and the choice of all the other wonderful things behind the little glass doors which opened when you inserted a nickel and turned the knob. And the coffee which spurted out of the little lion's heads...Good memories! |
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