32 vintage photos reveal what Los Angeles looked like before the US regulated pollution

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A motorcyclist in Los Angeles prepares to turn while driving along a street engulfed in a thick haze combined by fog and smog in 1958.
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Los Angeles has struggled with air pollution problems since before smog became a term.
In 1943, smog covered the city so thickly that…

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