Along the No.20 Line: "Woodland Avenue is the stop for Burns slaughterhouse, the biggest packing plant on the west coast. Across the tracks, behind a maze of cattle sheds, the main building rises four storeys in dirty rust-brown brick. Rail cars bring in cattle and pigs, and some sheep. They wait in corrals. Every now and again a few animals escape and roam the tracks and side streets..." (p.21)
"Throughout the industrial zone are islands of sagging private houses, old apartments, and here and there a corner store and lunch counter... A block south on Franklin are a couple of once luxurious but now faded apartment buildings. Flats, single rooms and small garment shops are all mixed together there." (p.22)
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