During the 1950s, were grain elevators present in Southern California (in
the area surrounding Los Angeles), or were the majority of Californinan
grain elevators in another part of the state?
Anywhere that there were/are chicken or egg ranches, there will be a grain
silo by the tracks. Chickens are voracious eaters although they are fairly
efficient at turning that grain into eggs and meat. The ranch itself may be
miles from the grain silo but trucks (around here, double trailer trucks are
used and the bottoms of the trailers look like Airslide hoppers) take the
grain to the particular ranch. One silo near me has 4 bins and always has
at least 5 or more cars on the spur that seem to be changed several times a
week.
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Danny:
If any grain is shipped out of LA then there's bound to be at least one
BIG
grain elevator at the LA docks. I would venture to guess that this
cargo was
handled in the '50s.
If you're in the area, I'd suggest a trip to the local libraries. Even
finding out
what crops were grown there could help. If, say, the cultivation of
figs was
a major economic factor, go to a library and do some research in their
obsolete ag science texts (all libraries are replete with these) on the
methods
of fig growing. You'll soon see what kind of facilities were used.
Cordially yours:
Gerard P.
Eric
Danny TB wrote:
"During the 1950s, were grain elevators present in Southern California
(in the area surrounding Los Angeles), or were the majority of
Californinan grain elevators in another part of the state?"
The majority of the agriculture in California is in the, so called,
Inland Empire. The Central and San Joaquin valleys. North of
Sacramento you can find lots of grain elevators. There used to be
a large one in Stockton seaport, I think it was torn down fairly
recently and replaced with a cement export facility.
- Paul
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