New York City, man drinking coffee at a one cent coffee stand, sign on stand reads: 'The Greater New York Philanthropic Society, The One Cent Coffee Stands', New York, circa 1900s.

Scenes of Los Angeles, the original faux-log cabin among a chain of sixty-two White Log Coffee Shops opened by Kenneth Bemis. Built in 1932, now a hamburger shop, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Hill Street, California, 2005.

Scenes of Los Angeles, the Koffee Pot, an example of fantasy architecture that mirrors the function of the building. Now abandoned, originally called the Hot Cha, built in 1932, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Long Beach, California, 2005.

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Nick's Coffee shop and the Citigroup building in Long Island City in Queens in New York on Saturday, September 19, 2009. (© Richard B. Levine)