Speaking of which (Los Al and Sugar Beets):
The upper image is from
http://ochistorical.blogspot.com/201...ficulties.html, where it is attributed to the Orange County Archives, and purports to show Reagan St. in Los Alamitos, and we would be looking north. I have reason to believe that it's actually Cherry St., the next parallel street east of Reagan.
What is that reason? The lower photo above, from GSV, shows the present state of the building which has always been understood to be "the old sugar beet factory" (you see, this is my home turf; my high school's just a block north), which factory is, in the upper photo, at center in the distance. Reagan St. does not line up with the building properly; Cherry St. does. Unfortunately, today's Cherry St. dead-ends at new buildings in such a way that I can't reproduce usefully what
I think would be today's version of the upper shot, with no view of the big building in question (well, maybe a slight glimpse of the whitish roof). Here it (the Cherry view) is (from GSV):
Local lore is that the building also served as a factory for Dr. Ross Dog Food.
And I can add that, in doing a landscaping project at the nearby HS during the summer after my graduation,
I dug up a horseshoe. Yes, my life
is full of excitement!