The smog in this photo is so thick and so gritty that I can almost taste it, 68 years later. This photo was taken circa November 1954 on a day that was particularly heavy that pretty much the only building we can see clearly is the Los Angeles City Hall, and even then, only because it’s closest to the camera and is white. Thankfully the city took measures to clear the air otherwise everybody would have left.
Aerial photo of Los Angeles City Hall enshrouded in smog, downtown Los Angeles, circa November, 1954
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The book Smogtown says that occasionally a car driving through one of the canyons in thick smog would miss a curve and plunge into the abyss, never to be seen again. Yikes!
I think it was the State of California that took measures to clear the air.
And not so sure people would have left. There are many in this country who want to undo those laws, most of which eventually became federal laws.