237 has sure changed, hasn’t it?
I started off in the power business. We sold huge utility boilers down to the small ones used in canneries. Every harvest season the “tomato campaign” would start and we’d have field engineers in the canneries making sure the steam kept going. The aroma from the canneries was wonderful. The dairy farms - not so much!
I don’t remember the sausage plant off 1st st.
Do you remember the Hills Brothers Coffee Roaster plant in downtown SF by the financial district? Wonderful aroma of roasting coffee wafting all over downtown!
Oh yeah.. Gold Street, Gone. The Cows. Gone. The tiny old 2-lane road. Gone.
I never spent much time in SF. I did go to old Kezar for a Led Zeppelin concert once, that was interesting.. Missed the smell of coffee roasting tho. I first visited the area in 1973.. I680 ended at Calaveras.. They had orchards all over back then, sad to see Olson’s gradually going internet sales only.. not many local spots left you can pick or get fresh picked stuff. lots of farmers markets tho.