How Queens residents shopped for their holiday meals a century ago: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

Years ago, Queens cooks would have had to prepare their holiday dinners without the benefit of supermarkets. Peddlers in horse-drawn wagons made the rounds of the scattered homes of the non-farm families in the area, selling meat, fruit and vegetables. However, as the population grew, stores opened and the day of the peddler came to...