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lunch wagon



NOUN
chuck wagon
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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

At that time young Maxon was proprietor of a lunch wagon outside the Ford plant in Highland Park.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years ago this business contented itself with bourgeois monikers like "lunch wagon" or "canteen."

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 Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings




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