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Terrazzo entry to the Woolworth's Building, 1400 19th Street, Bakersfield, California. This former F.W. Woolworth's store opened to the public on May 6, 1950. The building was built by the Jackson Brothers of Los Angeles. This Woolworth's closed in January 1994. The building is now home of the Five and Dime Antique Mall. The Woolworth luncheonette counter has been preserved and is still in operation. It seats 22 and is called the Woolworth Diner.
Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
My Dad's uncle opened this place in Mt. Carmel, PA in 1916. He brought my Dad and my uncle in from Chicago to help him with the business. Ill health forced the uncle sold the business to my dad and his brother in 1921.
The luncheonette was converted to a full service restaurant, and business boomed!! My Dad (with the help of a fellow Greek business man) developed some of the most incredible candy recipes. It became the most popular place in the region! My uncle died and my Dad continued to run the business until arthritis took its toll.
I left my job with Johnson & Johnson in NJ and bought the business from him in 1975. I ran it until the failing economy forced me to sell the store in 1992 - thus ending a 77 year run!!
It was the greatest learning experience of my life!! When I meet people they tell me how much they miss the "store". It is now a pizza parlor. BUMMER!!
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Shot with Nikon Fm
with nikon 50mm
fuji superia s-200
scanned when developed
as shot no manipulation
(besides watermark)
Aug - 2014
IvyLeagueEast's
Flo’s Luncheonette
Patchogue NY
by Anthony Mealie
Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
The Post Office Fruit Luncheonette in Manchester, NH, one of the more bizarre places I've ever had lunch. This is basically an old-style newsstand, grocery store, and lunch counter that, oddly, doesn't really sell groceries anymore (that side of the store is basically storage now), and only has a single tired rack of magazines.
Alas, according to the April 2nd 2009 Union Leader, the Post Office Fruit Luncheonette closed last year, and is now for sale.
Update (2011): It's being renovated, and appears that it will reopen soon as the "PO Fruit Diner".
See my review at offbeateats.blogspot.com/2007/02/post-office-fruit-lunche...
Nicks Luncheonette :
A storefront not too far from BAM [Brooklyn Academy of Music] This storefront evokes the era of the neighborhood working-man's diner from the 60s.
Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
General store built 1860, served as post office station 1871-1970, owned and operated by Bill Crowley (postmaster 1945-1982) as luncheonette and general store since 1949, now operated by next generation since Bill's death in 2006.
Post office station since relocated across the street.
Photo taken by the Property Appraiser's office c1965; 900 Catherine St.; built 1928; Hilda's Luncheonette; Tract 12, Sqr 3, Pt Lot 7
Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
Photo taken by the Property Appraiser's office c1965; 632 Olivia St. (Elizabeth St. side of the building); built 1920's; Eddie's Little Luncheonette; Tract 5, Sqr 1, Pt Lot 9
Lower East Side, New York City.
Best Diners of the East Village, Lower East Side
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Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
"Delle & Campbell's Halal Luncheonette" is one of the newly licensed street food vendors permitted by the city that'll give folks some food cart options beyond hot dogs and half smokes (good stuff, but it can get old) -- and the odd burrito cart. Today was its first day of operation on 14th and G streets NW in downtown.
They've got kebabs, shawarma, merguez (sausage) and say they'll be serving waffles next week. Its pricier than a hot dog cart -- but so far it seems worth it. A generous shawarma sandwich was $7 with chips.
The chicken and burger in the "crest" on their cart is kind of misleading.
same wall, different light. to get personal, my mother once told me she used to hang out at a bar where there were chianti bottles on every table. greenwich village, 1950s. she in unlaced keds and a circle skirt and her bangs and french twist. my art student mother.
· Justin Leboe, Model Milk (Calgary, Alberta)
· Victor Barry, Piano Piano (Toronto, Ontario)
· Derek Dammann – Maison Publique and McKiernan Luncheonette (Montreal, Quebec)
· Charles-Antoine Crête & Cheryl Johnson – Montreal Plaza (Montreal, Quebec)
· Afrim Pristine – Cheese Boutique (Toronto, Ontario)
With chefs Rob Gentile, Jeremy Charles and Leandro Baldassarre
Plate Swap
Piano Piano
May 27, 2019
Image from my OnePlus
boston, massachusetts
may 1971
108 essex street
corner of essex and kingston
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
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c1910 postcard view of Main Street and the monument in Angola, Indiana. Business signs include: Hubbard & Hubbard Attorneys; Soda, Ice Cream, Candy; Best & Potter (?) Law Office; Luncheonette; Kodak Films; Angola Bank Trust Co.; The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; Kimmer___ (?) Grocery; Patterson Department Store; Kratz Drug Store; Ross H. Miller Tailoring and Dry Cleaning; and Maurice ____.
From a private collection.
The full postcard image can be seen here.
This luncheonette is located on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan's Upper East Side and appears to be a real institution for the area.
Former site of Glenwood Restaurant and former site of Kenny's Sweet Shop. In the 1960's, this was an old-fashioned luncheonette. In my memory, Kenny was a sort of huge and crabby guy. In my grammar school, a kid named Mike came to us from Chicago. Kenny's had the old counter and round aluminum luncheonette chairs on the right, on the left side he had the newspapers and magazines including Playboy, Penthouse etc. You know, things that 12 year old boys love. I remember Mike stealing an issue of Playboy, and a whole bunch of us boys walked around the corner to Glenwood to oogle it. Then we threw it into the forsythia bushes on Glenwood Drive and walked back to school.
Steve Zabel/ERA collection duplicate slide
RKO Kenmore Theater in background
Donomat - Martinson's Coffee Served - Luncheonette - Coca-Cola
Days of the little luncheonettes, corner cigar stores, old neon signs and painted wall advertisements that clung to nearly every building's walls.
Days of parking your car in front of a business without feeding a meter, where the owner of the shop knew his patrons by their first name.
Days of stopping after work for a cold one, not fearing the police were watching you and tagging you with a DUI.
Oh those days are gone, never to return, and are slowly being forgotten.
This is on the west side of Harrison Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues in Davenport,IA. (currently a parking lot)
Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
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Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
NORTH MIDWAY LUNCHEONETTE
Date: 1933
Source Type: Postcard
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: Reuben H. Donnelley, R. R. Donnelley and Sons (#138)
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Copyright 2011. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic
The Vineyard's Storehouse
Skin Deep Body Art Studio
1521-1529 & 1531 East Pembroke Avenue, Fordham Shopping Center, Hampton, VA
Vineyard's Storehouse opened in 2015.
Space 1723 was originally Hamtronics Sales & Service, which opened on November 20th, 1964.
Space 1525 was originally an H&R Block, which opened in 1965. It became Dink's Ladies Apparel in the early 1970s, which was destroyed by a fire on March 31st, 1974, Old Point Realty in 1976, and Blowe's Cleaners in the late 1970s.
Space 1527 was originally Fordham Barber Shop, which opened in 1962. It became Jackie's Variety in the mid 1970s and Freddie's Shoe Repair on April 9th, 1979.
Space 1529 was originally Hampton TV & Appliance, which opened in 1967. It became The Cavalier in 1973, which closed in January 1982.
Spaces 1521-1523 became L&J Luncheonette in the early 1970s and Big Horn Restaurant in 1977. Spaces 1525-1527 became Pembroke Pub in 1981, then later on Big Horn expanded into them. Big Horn closed in the early 2010s and became Money Clip in 2012.
Skin Deep opened in 2012; it was originally Lively's Raceway, which opened in 1965. It became a Family Dollar on March 3rd, 1982, which relocated here in July 1994.
fully operational Old Fashioned Soda Fountain that resembles the original Woolworth Luncheonette. A 50 - 60's flair celebrates the heyday of the soda fountain era.
Fully restored facade.
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Constructed in 1912 by William Steele and Sons Inc., this building served as a bakery and retail outlet for the Horn & Hardart Automat restaurant chain.
Horn and Hardart was founded in 1888 as a luncheonette cafe which was highly successful. In 1902 the company opened the first ever Automat at 818 Chestnut Street. In the Automat, pre-baked items were placed in glass display cases whose doors were unlocked by depositing nickels. This new concept was in instant hit and soon two more locations were opened nearby.
It soon became clear that a new centralized bakery was necessary and the company was also wanting to open a new prototype store that was built from the ground up as opposed to leased storefronts. To fulfill this vision, Horn and Hardart turned to the William Steele and Sons Company.
Founded in the 1880's as a carpentry firm in the city's Kensington section, Steele and Sons expanded to become a major firm specializing in the design and construction of several commercial buildings in Philadelphia.
After being approached by Horn and Hardart, Steele purchased the site at 15 South 11th Street (former site of a theater) in 1910. Working closely with Horn and Hardart, Steele engineered the facility to fit their needs and oversaw the construction, as well as the installation of equipment. Upon completion, Horn and Hardart operated the building under a long term lease from Steele, buying the property outright in 1959.
One of the earliest uses of polychromatic glazed terra-cotta in Philadelphia, the exterior ornament of the Steele building is cited as an example of the "transitional period" in commercial architecture. Perhaps influenced by the work of contemporaries such as Louis Sullivan or Cass Gilbert, the Steele architects designed a building that followed the basic classical design (base shaft and crown) made popular by the Beaux Arts movement, but used abstract detailing that would later be credited as the forerunner of Art Deco.
Engineering wise, the Steele building was considered noteworthy as an early use of reinforced concrete, back when that technology was still relatively new. Albert Kahn's Packard Motor car building (1910) on North Broad street may has served as a direct influence.
Horn and Hardart owned the building until 1969 when it was sold. By that time the once iconic chain (85 locations at it's peak in 1958) was facing pressure from fast food establishments as well as the decline of inner city neighborhoods where they had been fixtures.
In later years the building was home to a variety of storefronts on the ground floor along with the Sound of Market music store (known for it's jazz selection) on the upper floors.
Brickstone Realty purchased the building in 2010 and evicted all the tenants with the intention of renovating the structure into creative office space with new ground floor retail.
In May of 2016, it was announced that The Yard, a Brooklyn based coworking space provider was leasing the entire 24,000 square feet office section. Honeygrow, a locally based eatery will open on the ground floor in 2017
Photo: Eric McNatt
Come celebrate festival artists and fellow participants during our annual party to benefit Elastic City! This time, we're taking over The Wild Project in the East Village!
Thursday, July 30th
7:30pm to 10:30pm
The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street; Manhattan)
$40 admission
Performers: Karen Finley, Ramzi Awn
Music Playlist: Vin Scelsa
Portraits: Santos Muñoz
M.C.: Ben Weber
Featuring: an undressing room, perfect moments and visual poems
Hors d'oeuvre: Butterfield Catering
Champagne cocktails: Tim Miner (Magic Touch Cocktails)
Dessert: Erica's Rugelach & Baking Company
Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Company
Champagne: Roederer Estate
Wine: Urban Wines
Sparkling Water: Perrier
Raffle to include prizes from: Beggars Group, The Bluestone Bed & Basecamp, eNe Salon, HERE Arts Center, Iron & Silk Personal Fitness, Joe's Pub, Kings County Distillery, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Magic Touch Cocktails, The New Victory Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Shankman, St. Marks Bookshop, and more!
Host Committee: John DeCicco, Nicolette Dixon, Nora Hennessy, Heather Janoff Johnson, Carla Kasumi, Sonya Kolowrat, Nancy Nowacek, Ben Pryor, Barbara Rogers, Todd Shalom, Peter Shankman, Niegel Smith, Ryan Tracy and Ben Weber
Festival partners: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, The Flea Theater, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Jack Geary Contemporary, The Poetry Project, Pratt Institute MFA in Writing, Sunview Luncheonette, UnionDocs and The Wild Project
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Festival Media Partner: Hyperallergic