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Mission Valley was all truck farms in those days.

In the store we sold fresh produce my cousins brought in from their truck farm, and also dry goods and a little ammunition.

When he was 9, the family moved to Garden City, where they lived in a Sears and Roebuck house on the west end of town and transformed their city block into a truck farm.

Do you still go there to buy fresh produce from a truck farm, or bread like they used to make in the old country?

It’s a New Yorker’s argument—no Jersey truck farms without Manhattan diners—but it’s not one that has won general assent among historians of early civilizations.