The rotten-egg stench that drove Bruce Springsteen out of Tacoma
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76YD4)
Tacoma, Washington spent most of a century known for its smell. The Aroma of Tacoma - a rotten-egg odor concentrated in the tideflats and familiar to anyone driving that stretch of Interstate 5 - got its name by the early 1940s, though resident George Francis Train was already rhyming on it in a 1901 civic cheer: "Seattle! - Read the rest
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