I know you’ve always wanted to know what, exactly, is down Zesta Place.  Today’s walk was an exploration of the industrial area surrounding the Jif peanut butter plant on Winchester Road including the intriguingly-named Zesta. (Did someone intentionally name a street that runs by a peanut butter plant after a cracker?)

But what lies down  Zesta is about what you’d expect in an industrial area.  You’d probably feel more comfortable on this street in a forklift or a semi.  In addition to the peanut butter plant  there are a number of smaller operations and a sprawling industrial gas distributor.

Both Zesta and Magnolia feel more like a part of the adjacent industrial operations than public, city-maintained streets (which they are),  and a significant stretch of Montgomery was lined with razor wire fence on one side and barbed wire on the other.  I was actually a little surprised that I received as little attention as I did.  By the time I reached Zesta, I’d actually convinced myself that these were private streets.