The smog had been cleaned up a lot when the illegal alien obama migrated here from Indonesia.
When it was realy thick was in the 40s and 50s.
I blame color TV for all the liberal imports from the east.
They sat in front of their TV on New Years day watching the Rose Parade with all the spectators in their shirt sleeves with the mountains behind them and we wound up getting another half million freezing easterners moving here. Thats what turned California into a liberal sewer.
We lived in SoCal from 1971-1973; always remember my grandfather visiting then and saying the smog then was nothing compared to the early 1940’s when they lived there.
He said there were days when you could barely see the sun—air pollution and smoke from wartime industrial production, steam locomotives, oil refineries and individual homes that burned coal for heating all were largely unregulated. Suits usually needed dry cleaning after one day’s wear.
He said the 1970’s were pristine compared to what he’d personally seen in earlier years.