A dozen decades ago, anyone searching for a bite to eat downtown after dark gravitated to nighttime lunch wagons â the original food trucks.
âLunch wagons are now considered the proper thing in cities and large town,â read an 1892 Berkshire Eagle report, âand 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 oâclock in the morning without calling up his wife or servant girl.â
Thomas H. Buckley of Worcester prospered by building night-lunch vehicles â âOwlâ or âWhite House Cafeâ models â some of which ended up here.