re: #283 caseyjr

The summer of 1978 I was 16-17years old and traveled to SoCal for the summer where I stayed with relatives. In downtown LA, the gutters and sidewalk joints were full of particulate smog/soot. On a hike to Sturdivant Falls, I was overcome with a bronchitis attack, something I had never experienced. I thought it must be what a heart attack felt like. The air was dangerously bad.

I remember that growing up in L.A. in the 1970s. All of us being sent home from school because of smog alerts, even tasting the smog in the back of my throat.

Not exactly good times.