Me too, this was good to have in the freezer. The Minute-Maid process was invented for World War II and it allowed deploying decent citrus with smaller refrige

Me too, this was good to have in the freezer. The Minute-Maid process was invented for World War II and it allowed deploying decent citrus with smaller refrigerators if their temperature was cold enough and there was potable water. By the 1960's' I would guess the original manufacturing facility was about 20 years old, Orlando was kind of a backwater place back then. It was basically the only city in the Florida peninsula without a beach, which normally serves as a natural attraction. Still is to an extent. All the other places were rural small towns. The Turnpike was well-established by then and it went right by the huge Minute-Maid plant. God did that place smell for miles. To get an idea maybe you could throw about a pound of rotten orange peels onto hot barbecue coals, add some used cigarette filters, and stand downwind :( That still doesn't do it justice :) Way before they built Disney World I wouldn't be surprised if there were more people staying in hotels every night who were too tired to keep driving, than there were people actually visiting little old Orlando. It was hours further of nothing but oranges and everglades before you get to Fort Pierce, which is still a small-time resort, and a couple hours more to most of South Florida. Anyway, even though we were saturated with fresh orange juice availability, from the supermarket people loved the concentrate because it was about half the price. Mainly getting the ready-to-drink stuff when it was on sale. One time I was in North Carolina, the mountains too, went shopping in a small town and the same brands they had in Florida, were cheaper in North Carolina. This I did not expect. Discontinuing the concentrate, neither. Maybe the Navy hasn't been buying as much as they should have been? Wonder if the pina-colada mix or margaritas are at risk :)