As an ex-Hollisterite who regularly reads the on-line Free
Lance, your story about the cannery really brought back
memories
As an ex-Hollisterite who regularly reads the on-line Free Lance, your story about the cannery really brought back memories.
As a kid growing up at 1037 Sally Street (just about a block down the street from the cannery), noise, congestion and odors (good and bad) were just a way of life. People lived with it all.
Sure, we complained amongst ourselves, but that was about it.
Some nights the rumble of the tomato trucks driving down the street outside our house was incessant and on hot nights it was horrible. I do dearly love the memory of the aroma of stewing tomato products in the air.
As a kid in high school/junior college in the late 1960s and early ’70s, I worked at the A&W drive in. The cannery employees were regulars, especially during the tomato season.
Anyway, thanks for the trip back “home.”
Oliva Poole, Fresno
