#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak
Roll 19707208: Riverside (1970-72)
At our local drive-in movie theater (the Arlington, if I remember correctly).
One: A playground of some kind was always provided back then to keep the kids occupied till it got dark.
@stuartmarks Heh. The haze in the Perris Dam set is just dust, but yeah, the smog was a constant and defining presence back then. There's a reason that the state located its Air Pollution Station in Riverside. I first wrote about the smog back here:
https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/110506382016103863
Later, I posted a photo of the "pink wall" I referred to:
https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/111731910209589733
Here are a few other illustrations:
https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/111511458285099585
https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/116103486626091847
https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/115168763715963532
Waking up to sick pink air this morning reminded me of living in Southern California's "Inland Empire" in the mid-70s. The LA basin has an inversion-layer lid that traps emissions from 470 sq. mi. of traffic and cooks it all day, creating all kinds of interesting toxic compounds. Then in the afternoon the wind blows in from the ocean and flushes all that smog out through a kind of topographical funnel into the Riverside/San Bernardino area. 1/2
Jon Bosak
Stuart Marks