Del Monte Park, San Jose

 The Del Monte Park is close to where Jesse lives.  After dropping him off one day I went to the park for a walk.  This park mostly has a dog park,; ;actually two, one for little dogs and one for big dogs.  This is nice, but dogs make poop and it didn't smell too nice.  The people bringing dogs are very good at cleaning up as needed, but still it had a smell.  The park supports a couple art type works, including a pretend pond and the plaque.  There was also a built in ping pong table.  It is across Auzerais Street from the Del Monte apartments, which were built where the Del Monte processing plany use to be.

Cache Valley 2016

We went to Logan to visit my mother in the Sunshine Terrace Nursing Home.  We wanted to time our visit right so she wouldn't be at lunch, so so  took in a brief lunch time series show at the  tabernacle.  They were two guitarist, not my favorite but they were very talented.  We also made a quick trip to Hyrum, and then on to Porcupine Dam.  Paradise has really changed with new churches.  I visited the library in Hyrum, but the museum wan't open.

Logan Tabernacle

We saw a deer on the way to Porcupine, and a pheasant on the way back.  They were too fast for pictures.

Porcupine Dam

Porcupine Dam looking down the valley below the lake

The old grainery in Hyrum

Elite Hall, Hyrum, Utah

Old buildings by City Hall, Hyrum, Utah

Old outhouse

Old City building

Hyrum Smith

The stone work lining Main Street in Hyrum is unique

Camp Hollow, original Hyrum settlement

Me and my Momma

With Tony

Behind Cove

We went looking for the new ski resort behind Richmond, and ended up on back roads between Richmond and Cove.  We again saw a nice deer.

Del Monte where I use to work in  Franklin, Idaho.  We use to process beans and I worked on a conveyer.

ACE Train 9: Del Monte

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Across the street from The Diridon Station, the last stop for the Ace Train is where Del Monte use to be.  I go on with the light rail which goes right behind the new housing complex.  The cannery closed for good in 1999.  What once was the "Valley of Hearts Delight" because the of the many fruit blossoms, was no Silicon Valley, with the only orchards now a few trees in the back yard, or municipal orchards for memory's sake.
The factory has a special place for me, because my dad, while in the Nave, and awaiting assignment was at Camp Shoemaker, in Dublin.  They use to bring Navy boys down in buses to work the factory.  I discovered from my dad's letters, that he was among the crowd who came by bus to work in the fruit, usually the graveyard shift.  My father was always trying to do a little more.  He had plans to have a farm, which takes money.

I walked by to take pictures, the light rail goes to fast

When we moved to San Jose, the factory was still intact, and in fact running as it closed in 1999.  However by the time I inherited my dad's letters, and got through them, the old factory had been knocked down, giving way to a housing development.  There are a few places where the old wall has been lift, to provide shade and a historical backdrop.  The water tower is also still in place.