There was a Union Sugar mill on the west side of town. Prevailing winds W or NW.
They used to grow a lot of sugar beets here in the valley, when the plant was still open, and imported the beets from all over SoCal. When they were cooking beets town smelled like baked potatoes. :lol: You would be surprised how much soil sticks to those beets after harvest. There are still piles of that soil on the old property, 1000s of tons of it. It gets sold off as fill material now. That particular stretch of road behind those piles was one of the more popular areas for illicit speed contests :eek:.
