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" If you think Kogi BBQ is the granddaddy of all food trucks, the Los Angeles Times has some news for you: The roots of mobile vending reach back quite a bit further. I&amp;#039;m talking about horse-drawn tamale wagons. Tamaleros, as they were called, started appearing in L.A. as early as the 1870s, and by the 1890s dominated downtown Los Angeles and started spreading to other cities. &amp;quot;Competition spurred innovation,&amp;quot; writes Gustavo Aralleno. &amp;quot;Wagons transformed into portable kitchens with functioning stoves (some illegally tapped into the city&amp;#039;s gas mains and water pipes) and featured counters so that as many as eight people at a time could dine around the wagons.&amp;quot; Throughout it all, tamaleros sparked their fair share of controversy amongst business owners and city residents \u2014 any of this sounding familiar? \u2014 but they were never successfully banned. It took almost 60 years before the tamale-cart trend petered out on its own in the late 1920&amp;#039;s. So, it&amp;#039;s quite possible that we have another 55 years of these things to look forward to. [Los Angeles Times] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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