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moniss

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3. Back in the early '60's I took my first trip
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:44 PM
May 9

to Milwaukee. From about 6 miles out you started to notice a different smell to the air and as you got another couple of miles you could look at the sky ahead of you and there was a long brown layer hanging in the sky and that's how you knew you were getting close to Milwaukee. It used to give us headaches. Some of it was transportation but much of it was unregulated industry. The smell was a combo of things and maybe the worst was the very large rendering plants and tanneries. So you had the smell of the dead animals as they were being hauled in, the smell of them cooking and then the acrid fumes from the tanneries who processed the hides. Mixed in with coal dust, chemicals from metal processing and the wind coming in off the lake that brought the smell of dead fish and the raw sewage overflow that got pumped into the lake.

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