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Originally Posted by TexasTitanXE  Don't you mean Stinkadena???  |
Here's a little history lesson on why Pasadena is called Stinkadena ..... way back in the 40's, a papermill was built on the Houston Ship Channel ... and that papermill stunk up to high Heaven .... all the way into the 60's, the only way in and out of Pasadena was HWY 225 which run's the length of the Ship Channel ....this was before HWY 45 was built .... any time you where going into Pasadena, you'd smell the stench and hence, Stinkadena was coined......fortunatly for my health while growing up, the wind blows from the Gulf of Mexico to the northeast and blows all the pollution from all the petro/chemical industries along the channel north....into Channelview, Texas......except on the rare northern wind days when Stinkadena earns it's nickname.