Johnf Mclaughlin News Today

A dozen decades ago, anyone searching for a bite to eat downtown after dark gravitated to nighttime lunch wagons — the original food trucks. “Lunch wagons are now considered the proper thing in cities and large town,” read an 1892 Berkshire Eagle report, “and are said to be a success financially. They are patronized mostly in the night time and now the festive Mason, Red Man and Odd Fellow can get a square meal at thirteen o’clock in the morning without calling up his w...