May 21, 2015

1915 Southern California Beet Dump

The photo above is of a beet dump in Los Alamitos, California, taken circa 1915-1920. "A Timothy Carroll beet dump."We learn more from the Wikipedia page describing Los Alamitos:In the early 1900s, sugar beets were delivered to a factory by horse and wagon. Economics, combined with an insect infestation in 1921, caused sugar-beet crop to drop significantly and the eventual demise of the sugar

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