Waffle Vendor on the Mall Much like the food trucks that line the Mall today, food wagons in the late 1800s catered to <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/295">office workers</a> and tourists. Here a wagon offering "Hot Waffles 6 for 5c" sits on the Mall near the southside of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/337">Treasury Department building</a>. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Uriah+Hunt+Painter+%28photographer%29">Uriah Hunt Painter (photographer)</a> Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002723170/">View Original.</a> 04/22/1889 <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1860-1889">1860-1889</a>