[PRCo] Re: Home

[Boris Cefer]

Wasn't there a "smoke control" in Pittsburgh in the late 40s?

B

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>   Boris
>   The "Smog" of Donora i was a 9 year old boy, I remember even to this
day, we were at a Donora High school  verses Monongahela High School
football game and you could not see across the football field because of the
Smog, yes a neighbor died from it, you could hardly breather.  My Dad
> was employed by the Donora Zinc Works which caused the problem along with
the inversion of the
> air over the valley.  It was a bad time and that is what eventually closed
that steel city down and the rest of the Steel Industry in the Greater
Pittsburgh area.
>
> Jerry