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Horn & Hardart was a food services company in the United States noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia and New York City. Philadelphia's Joseph Horn (1861–1941) and German-born, New Orleans-raised Frank Hardart (1850–1918) opened their first restaurant together in Philadelphia, on December 22, 1888. The small ...

A Royal Dutch Shell filling station and garage in Mijnsheerenland, The Netherlands, late-1970s. Pre-fabricated gas station, Culver City, California, US 1977. A filling station, also known as petrol station or gas station (US), is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles.

Tops Friendly Markets was co-founded by Armand Castellani, who was born in 1917 in a village outside of Rome, Italy, and Thomas Buscaglia. Castellani's family came to the United States in 1920, and eventually settled in Niagara Falls, where his father, Ferrante, opened a small neighborhood grocery store . Following his mother's death in 1933 ...

The McDonald family moved from Manchester, New Hampshire to Hollywood, California in the late 1930s, where brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald ("Dick" and "Mac") began working as set movers and handymen at motion-picture studios. [1] In 1937, their father Patrick McDonald opened The Airdrome, a food stand, on Huntington Drive ( Route 66) near ...