[HerrBlucher]

I grew up in L.A. in the 70s, and still vividly remember the smog obscuring the San Gabriels.

Cars, smudgepots, and kaiser steel in fontana, some days were just plain hell. It was downright painful to take a breath after any significant physical exertion. It was an awful time, chaos in the streets, the constant threat of nuclear war, and Tiny Tim singing tiptoe through the tulips. The Rock of that time was great though. The Doors, the Who, the Stones and some other band...I think they were called the potato bugs or something...

[Dr. Sivana]

The Doors, the Who, the Stones and some other band...I think they were called the potato bugs or something...

You must be thinking of "The Turtles".

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Ah, for the days of the Stage Three smog alerts in the mid to late 70s, when they’d send us home early from school, and you could taste the smog in the back of your throat on some days.

I will give L.A. some credit for having cleaned up the air a bit.

[Fiji Hill]

The Rock of that time was great though. The Doors, the Who, the Stones and some other band...I think they were called the potato bugs or something...

I wasn't listening to that at the time. I kept my radio tuned to KWIZ, blasting out "oldies" from Santa Ana at 1480 kilocycles.

[ErnBatavia]

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It took decades for that slag-heap "mountain" to finally fade away....