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Canteen Lunch in the Alley

Ottumwa, IA

This tiny diner is famous for loose-meat sandwiches and a horseshoe-shaped counter squeezed into a narrow downtown building. Its alley entrance and nearly unchanged interior make eating there feel like stepping into a preserved roadside-food time capsule.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: canteenottumwa.com

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