you brought up a long-forgotten time i lived near the town of emeryville, ca where there was a large, windowless concrete block that spewed that stench of death you mentioned, only worse: it was an animal rendering plant. i didn’t live there long but it’s a smell i will never forget.
flash forward ten years, i’m living in oakland now, but the town of emeryville has decided to upscale. level out whole blocks of abandoned businesses (thank you reagan voodoo economics) and bring in developers. a mall came, and an ikea, and in that spot where the horrible smell came from...
pixar.
and emeryville boomed. property values went up and developers built new homes. it’s sometimes strange to think of places never changing, or not changing for the good, and then something happens and it’s like a dam burst of change.
you’ll move on and who knows how much change you’ll leave in your wake. best of luck with the next phase of your adventures!
Thank you! My favorite small town smell was a tiny town in PA, can't remember the name of it but not far from Allentown, that had some kind of huge bakery factory and the town always smelled like baking brownies. It was amazing.
you brought up a long-forgotten time i lived near the town of emeryville, ca where there was a large, windowless concrete block that spewed that stench of death you mentioned, only worse: it was an animal rendering plant. i didn’t live there long but it’s a smell i will never forget.
flash forward ten years, i’m living in oakland now, but the town of emeryville has decided to upscale. level out whole blocks of abandoned businesses (thank you reagan voodoo economics) and bring in developers. a mall came, and an ikea, and in that spot where the horrible smell came from...
pixar.
and emeryville boomed. property values went up and developers built new homes. it’s sometimes strange to think of places never changing, or not changing for the good, and then something happens and it’s like a dam burst of change.
you’ll move on and who knows how much change you’ll leave in your wake. best of luck with the next phase of your adventures!
Thank you! My favorite small town smell was a tiny town in PA, can't remember the name of it but not far from Allentown, that had some kind of huge bakery factory and the town always smelled like baking brownies. It was amazing.