Take a deep breath

[Buckeye Burgher]

Originally Posted by GeneW

A coworker who grew up here told me a story about when he was a kid riding with a friend and the friend's mother to pick up their father from a late shift at a mill. The friend made some comment about how bad it smelled and his mom smacked him and said something like, "That's the smell of men making a living".

Rotten eggs inside the men's room of an all-you-can-eat burrito restaurant.
That's the best way I can think of to describe the scent of the old J&L plant
along Second Ave.

[EveKendall]

But I heard it used to smell very nice around the Nabisco plant that is now Bakery Square. Hopefully there wasn't the scent of vanilla competing with the smell of sulfur, though.

[jay5835]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Burgher

Rotten eggs inside the men's room of an all-you-can-eat burrito restaurant. That's the best way I can think of to describe the scent of the old J&L plant along Second Ave.

And you could smell it almost as well in Oakland.

Originally Posted by EveKendall

But I heard it used to smell very nice around the Nabisco plant that is now Bakery Square. Hopefully there wasn't the scent of vanilla competing with the smell of sulfur, though.

To this Oakland/Shadyside-dwelling Pitt student in the early '70s, the world began at the Pitt Towers and continued along Forbes and Fifth to end at Beechwood Boulevard (the platinum triangle). I never made it quite as far as the Nabisco factory, though, so it was all kind of Sulfur City.

[LIRefugee]

Originally Posted by EveKendall

But I heard it used to smell very nice around the Nabisco plant that is now Bakery Square. Hopefully there wasn't the scent of vanilla competing with the smell of sulfur, though.

Now it's imbued with the fresh scents of Google. The construction across the street is pretty noisy, though.