[PRCo] Re: Home

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Boris
No smoke control in Pittsburgh until the Mid 1950s,  the Donora incident is what brought action to control the smog and smoke problems.
basically even before the "Donora Smog" incident the cities were really SMOKEY, even Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle could not be seen from Mt. Washington at times.
Jerry
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> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
> Date: 2005/10/27 Thu PM 02:39:00 EDT
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Home
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> Wasn't there a "smoke control" in Pittsburgh in the late 40s?
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> B
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> From: <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:23 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Home
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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
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