…and the '40s were nowhere near the worst part. The early-to-mid 50’s had some genuinely hellacious smog attacks until they instituted regular municipal trash pick-up and banned the formerly standard disposal method of burning trash in backyard incinerators.
It’s been a long road (and there’s been a bit of backsliding lately), but the air quality in LA is better today than it’s been since the mid '30s.
