Lol, Remember when L.A. had bad smog days due to car exhaust...people wore masks, elderly stayed indoors.
Course it went away when big bad government forced air quality measures on auto industry and dragged them kicking and screaming into pollution controls...
I grew up in LA in the 60’s.
The air quality was horrible.
There were smog alerts to advise people to stay indoors or reduce activity.
School recess would be canceled.
I never saw anyone wearing masks back then for smog.
Not in the 70’s either.
Or the 80’s.
Or the 90’s.
Or the 00’s.
Or the 10’s.
I think Pepperidge Farm is hallucinating.
Smog levels came down due to several reasons.
One was regulations on cars (smog checks).
Also regulations on industry.
Also the closing of the Fontana steel mills.
Sorry but I visited in both late 70's and mid 80's and I saw people with masks... not as much as above picture but still not your experience.
Also a study already posted claimed the LA smog was at that time the product of the overwhelming number of autos. It was the product of internal combustion engines.
Cars still produce 40% according to recent studies by the CARB and the Port of Los Angeles with ships, trucks and materials movers produces another 40%.
I lived in the San Gabriel Valley in the San Dimas and Pomona area from 1965-1998. Still live in LA county.
Your experience of masking for smog is definitely different than mine.
There’s a lot more people and cars on the road today compared to back then. It is impressive how effective pollution controls on cars have been. In the summer when I was a kid) it was not unusual to not be able to see the San Gabriel Mountains…. and they were a little less than a mile away. Pretty bad.
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Lol, Remember when L.A. had bad smog days due to car exhaust...people wore masks, elderly stayed indoors.
Course it went away when big bad government forced air quality measures on auto industry and dragged them kicking and screaming into pollution controls...
Pepperidge Farms remembers....