Almond harvest winding down

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Agriculture

Almonds -- Beginning of harvest

Sept. 11, 1962


Almond harvest is wrapping up and a couple weeks ago the Sun-Star had a great story about the Minturn Nut Co. A picture accompanied that story -- workers sorting almonds on a conveyer belt -- much like this one from nearly 50 years ago. 


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Agriculture

Almonds -- Beginning of harvest

Sept. 11, 1962


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This page contains a single entry by Jesse Chenault published on September 19, 2009 1:21 AM.

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Jesse Chenault is the copy desk chief at the Sun-Star and a former staff photographer. The purpose of this blog is to share photos from the newspaper's archives that hopefully spur a discussion about our area's history, photography or the events, people and places pictured here. Feel free to log in and contribute information about the pictures. He'll try to give as many details as he can about names, dates, places but some of the information is fairly sketchy. E-mail him at jchenault@mercedsun-star.com. Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

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