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• The sugar factory was down on Dyer Rd near where Grad dead ends at the 55. There is a "suites" type hotel there now! There are a couple of postcards with pictures of it on the Santa Ana History Website. Check it out!!!http://www.santaanahistory.com

  By  Anonymous, at March 16, 2005 6:00 PM  

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• The "Suites" Hotel is built on the waste or spoils field rather than on the actual factory site--but close. This was one of two sugar factories in operation in Santa Ana over time and one of a half dozen in Orange County overall.

  By  Anonymous, at March 18, 2005 7:29 PM  

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• You all forgot how bad it smelled.

  By  Anonymous, at April 20, 2005 2:46 AM  

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• Many have not forgotten the smell, which was the topic of conversation at a dinner party several weeks ago.

  By  Anonymous, at April 19, 2006 11:27 AM  

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• I have worked at the Cherry Rivet plant since Feb. 1978 and I watched them dismantle the Holly plant soon after which was directly South of the Cherry property. The sugar beet pile was graded over for several months before they began to build the hotels. Holly also had a remote warehouse on Warner which they accessed by forklift along the tracks which still cross Warner West of Grand Ave. The warehouse is also gone.
  I haven't forgotten the smell. the prevailing wind from the West would blow it across the 55 Fwy.
  The Corliss steam engine that powered Holly is here:
  http://www.agsem.com/

  By  Anonymous, at June 26, 2006 9:05 PM  

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• That old sugar plant may have been there from as early as the 1870s, but more likely from around 1900. Certainly it was there by the early 1920s, when my mother, aunts and uncles were small children in Anaheim. They remember it clearly, and even as late as the early 1970s, it stood almost alone there on the valley. I mean there was very little around it for several miles. The distinctive thing about it to the average person were the lights on it and how they lit it up at night.

  By  Anonymous, at October 02, 2007 9:41 AM  

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• I miss the old plant. I worked there until it was shutdown

  By  Anonymous, at November 25, 2007 2:39 AM  

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• I went to elementary school at George
  Washington, from 1962-1969, on Flower and Warner. Flower Street dead-ended there and there were orange groves until you got to the beet fields. You could always smell the Holly Factory when you went out to morning recess. Not as bad as some describe, pungently sweet, almost burnt smell. Brings back a lot of memories.

  By  Bill Clave, at November 26, 2007 7:43 PM  

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• while not occuring directly at the sugar beet factory this site was adjacent to what was probably the worst commercal air disaster in orange county history,in november of 1968 a cable commuter twin otter on approach to orange county airport in heavy fog dropped below the glide path and hit a light standard,this spun the aircraft into the 55 freeway overpass at dyer rd,it exploded on impact showering burning debris across all lanes of the 55,luckly no one on the road was injured (with todays traffic i doubt they would be so lucky) but all 9 onboard were lost a very sad day indeed

  By  Anonymous, at November 28, 2007 10:14 AM  

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• yes i remember the holly sugar plant.i've been in orange county 48years and remember lots of things and places.some are still here ,but many are gone,replaced by high rises, new homes and buisness's. oh how sometimes i wish for those days.thank you,don catozza,1974 mater dei high school

  By  Anonymous, at March 03, 2008 7:30 PM  

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• Does anybody remember nearby Kerr Glass? And what about their fabulous idea for "glassphalt?"

  By  Anonymous, at March 10, 2008 11:36 AM  

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