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drive-in on Everett Street is the one I think you're referring to - just a block or so from the high school I went to (since replaced as Camas has really grown) and just across the street from Crown Park, where the pool is.
As to the "fragrance"; when I was growing up, 3200 people worked at the mill or the research labs in a town of 6000, so it did have its points - but East Vancouver and Washougal got less of the benefits. Just like Detroit and Schenectady and many other company towns, people accepted the downside for the jobs that were available, but one of the environmental movement's godfathers, Denis Hayes of Earth Day, grew up there, too, and graduated from CHS in '62, a few years before me. He's done great things to draw attention to the trade-offs - which has made the area, and other industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Schenectedy, et al, much more pleasant to live in or visit.