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Yeah, only a “Doris Day” could make an honest soul risk her job
giving away free food. I guess the expansive, generic anonymity of
the cube doors made it seem that much easier to pull off. In some
parallax, these people were their own unsuspecting prequel to
“Wild Palms”.
It would have been nice to know someone who worked in an automat who could just push food through for you.
I’ve noticed this photo over the years on your site. It was always
some kind of abstract thing. Recently, I got an old book from the
library “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole. The story
finds the main characters going to (60’s) movies of the day. Out
of curiosity of course, I rent the movies. In one of them, “A Touch
of Mink”, the “Automat” is a main starting point for the rest of
the movie. It looked like a pretty cool idea for the time I guess.
Thanks for posting pictures like this. I passed up years of
opportunities to snap seemingly common things like this, ignored
treasures I could have easily hauled away for the price of a
Brownie Kodak and a cheap roll of film.