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When I was a kid in the 1970s, we would take road trips down I-95 from Virginia to Florida every summer. It didn't' take us long to learn to roll up the windows and close the vents when we passed two towns: Hopewell, VA and Brunswick, GA.
The first town even inspired its own rhyme: "I smell, you smell, we all smell, Hopewell!"
I have no idea if they still stink now. But back then . . . oh boy!
Yeah, we'd take those trips (FL - NY in our case) every summer too, and to this day, whenever I hear "Brunswick, GA", I think of the stink!
I think we bypassed Hopewell. 95 wasn't completed thru that area, we were on 301.
New Orleans unquestionably. I will never forget that sewer stench as long as I live, and I was there 14 years ago. It smelled worse than my *** unwiped.
I was down on Tchoupitoulas Street one damp overcast day when the coffee plant was running its grinders, The thick smell of coffee hung in the air. It was heavenly.
I can't remember a bad-smelling city since Wisconsin cleaned up its paper mill towns back in the 60s I guess. Places like Kimberly and Wis Rapids. Bur in those, all Wisconsin smelled bad from barn silage. We could "smell farm" in the clothes of bus kids at school. Thinking back how I misss it, it waas one of the things that made "the good old days" great.
Nowadays, I guess livestock feedlots are the worst, but most are far out of towns.
Greeley, CO smells pretty rank once or twice a week thanks to the stockyards and the Purina plant. It's a stench you can smell close to 100 miles away if the breeze is just right. The one time I went through Bristol, TN/VA I found myself choking on some sort of chemical fumes from some factory in the middle of town. As in it literally was painful to breathe and was downright disgusting, couldn't get the smell out of my nostrils for days. Guy at the gas station I was fueling up at said something about a fiberglass factory there that probably was causing it?
I would say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It's like they show it on TV. Run down and ghetto like and looks dirty anyway you look at. If there were an aroma to it, just inhale the ice cool air and it will probably go away.
Several Illinois communities, which lie just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, smell bad as a result of industry located there: Roxana, due to the oil refinery; Granite City due to coke ovens at the steel plant; and Sauget, due to a chemical plant and a sewage treatment plant. Previously, the former community of National City was probably the worst, due to its stockyards and meat packing plants.
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