Coin-op cuisine: when the future tasted like a five-cent slice of pie

This concept fascinated me as a kid in the Sixties when I saw them in books and movies, but I don’t recall ever actually eating at one. One thing to remember too is that in 1933 a nickel had the same purchasing power as 92¢ today, and that a typical wage was 25¢ an hour.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=0.05&year1=1933&year2=2015