Originally Posted by
LesterOfPuppets
I always think of him as an Arizonan, but yep, he was born in Philly, got to AZ in '59.
Most of the carts were owned by Greeks. Many of them would smuggle cash back to Greece in the summer and eventually retire back there. They would sell the “business” to another Greek who would come over and run it, or their kids would take over. My boss did the latter. In ‘91 I stopped at a cart for a pretzel. The guy working the cart said “You used to work for my dad.”