Dining-Drinking

October, 1971

Autopub, which cost a gear-stripping $1,000,000 and covers 17,000 square feet of floor space off the sunken plaza of the new General Motors Building (where else?) at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan, is a symposium of six separate restaurant areas and one huge bar, all designed and decorated ad majorem Detroit gloriam. The lights above the Pit Stop bar are built into real crash helmets; the seats at the tables in the bar are sports-car buckets (no safety belts); above the bar hang a 191...