My Great Grandmother at the Lemon Packing House

[greeneyedsadie]

My Great Grandmother worked at a lemon packing house as a supervisor for decades. I found an album today that had all these pictures from the plant, spanning from 1941 to 1958. I thought they were very cool so I wanted to share them.

1941:

Comments

[purplefrog26]

Great pics! Like the last one with the presents piled up.

[greeneyedsadie]

Thank you. I really liked them too. I love these finds.

[avalonjones]

My first thought was "It must have been wonderful to come home from work smelling like lemons!", but then I thought that it was probably a very difficult, grueling job, and your great-grandmother was probably heartily sick of the smell of lemons after the first week.

[greeneyedsadie]

I can imagine the smell of lemons would get to be obnoxious. Dad worked in the plant for a few summers when he was a kid and he said the plant smelled amazing. Also, my great grandparents lived on a working citrus ranch, so my great grandmother was surrounded by citrus day and night!

[cemeteryconsort]

Wonderful pictures. I too thought how hard it would be standing there all day, long before padded floor surfaces too I'm sure. I suppose you would get used to the smell, but it seems like it would have been a nice smell.

[greeneyedsadie]

I know. I can't imagine how much these women's backs and feet hurt. Even their stools they can sit on look really uncomfortable.