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Originally Posted by belmont bob
It’s hard to get younger folks to understand just how bad the smog was in LA during the fifty’s. I remember day upon day after my Junior High School gym classes, trying to breathe after strenuous exercise and feeling the pain deep in my throat and down deep in my lunges. It was just awful and sometimes I wonder why my generation doesn’t have more repertory problems. And of course few schools were air-conditioned in those days, so even just sitting in class on a hot and smoggy day subjected us to the fowl air. Compared to then, today is heaven.
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That sounds like my experience in the 70s,
BB. High school water polo practice was in an outdoor pool on fall afternoons. In the evenings following practice, if I tried to breathe normally, I'd start to cough and had to take very shallow breaths instead. Less smog is a good thing.