"...back in the day, the entire valley used to have its own unique cachet... ...weird colored random piles scattered here and there... ...often contrasted by fluffy low-lying smoke... ...it made for a certain je ne sais quoi... ...then, sometime in the '70s or early '80s, they started the clean-up... ...so they hired students, planted grass on the slag piles and started printing tourist brochures......ruined the whole dang thing..."
