lunch wagon
Example Sentences
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Or they could join movie stars and sports heroes for original chili burgers at “Ptomaine Tommy’s” in Lincoln Heights, which started out in 1913 as a street lunch wagon.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
Louis Lunch, 263 Crown St., originated as a lunch wagon in 1895 and was recognized by the Library of Congress as the U.S. birthplace of the hamburger.
From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2016
Two years ago this business contented itself with bourgeois monikers like "lunch wagon" or "canteen."
From Time Magazine Archive
At that time young Maxon was proprietor of a lunch wagon outside the Ford plant in Highland Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the railroad put an old passenger car on a side track up there and boarded up the under part so you couldn't see the wheels, just the same as on a lunch wagon.
From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)
