re: #134 Gus 802

Heck. I remember when I was a small child driving through North Jersey on the Turnpike or the Garden State Parkway. The memories are almost mind boggling of a polluted and toxic environment in which one could barely breath. It was horrible to even drive through the area. Then, after environmental regulations took hold thanks in large part to Nixon and others things began to change for the better. What we see now in North Jersey is clean compared to what it was like in the 1960s.

Two words: Gary, Indiana. Nastiest place I ever had to be in. Still not pretty but it’s nowhere near as actively hazardous to your health to drive past the steel mills with your car windows open. I’ll never forget that stink.