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Dills and Thrills: 1959
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 7:26pm.
New York, 1959. "Stanley Hyams, co-owner of Washington Pickle Works, holding two pickles in a roomful of barreled dills." Photograph by Roger Higgins for the New York World Telegram & Sun. View full size.
Oh, yum
Submitted by Mahekun on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 2:47am.
I love pickles so much. That scenario would be my dream photo shoot...
Pickled
Submitted by Rob on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 7:21am.
I'm not old enough so I wouldn't know, but I wonder if these pickles stored in barrels would taste different than our store bought pickles today...
On a side note, my daughter and I could probably go through these barrels in two years, we eat one of the gallon jars within a week.
Not a Dill Moment!
Submitted by Yaeger4Life on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 3:29am.
"Oh, yeah, I'll double Dill ya!
Fifty years ago we still had a pickle factory in town, and it was just a few blocks from the main street; occasionally, as a ten-year-old I got to smell it and wonder about what went on inside. Today, even miles from the town center we have none of these old-style businesses; the area has been taken over by 'modern' concerns like Google Headquarters, and Yahoo!
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