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AlternativeResort477 on May 10th, 2024 at 18:04 UTC »

Modern vampires of the city

Spartan2470 on May 10th, 2024 at 19:02 UTC »

Here is a MUCH higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Credit to the photographer, Neal Boenzi.

> Once upon a time, you could touch the air in New York. Such as the case as seen here on Nov. 24, 1966, when a stagnant mass parked itself over the city for four days. This glimpse south from the Empire State Building showed a city shrouded in acrid, sour-smelling air. This photograph also moonlighted as the cover for Vampire Weekend's music album "Modern Vampires of the City" in 2013.

police-ical on May 10th, 2024 at 20:26 UTC »

As odd as it may seem that so many people fled cities for the suburbs, many Western cities in the area of unrestrained air pollution were a lot like Beijing or Delhi now. London pea-soup fogs were notorious, and even those beautiful building facades in Paris were stained dark until they got a good pressure-washing. Even in the early 90s, Ice Cube found "no smog" a notable sign of a good day in Los Angeles.