Movable Markets by Helen Tangires.
Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Movable Markets
Wholesale food markets used to have a central place in the bustling heart of most American cities. Today, most food distributors and suppliers have been exiled to the urban outskirts, trucking in their produce to a multitude of retail outlets. How this happened and why is the focus of this history by Dr. Helen Tangires, author of the Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook on Public Markets and Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America.