Folder: S.F. Views-1950's.
Newscopy: "San Franciscans, who weren't bound down by their jobs, could choose their own weather yesterday - hot and smoggy or hot and clear. Call-Bulletin staff photographer Emil Edgren, from a vantage point atop the Mark Hopkins Hotel, photographed both weather belts by making a 180 degree turn between shots. Below is the downtown area. Buildings are dimly outlined through the smog which reached an intensity of .23 parts of oxidants per million parts of air, just below eye-smarting level. At left, looking toward the Golden Gate Bridge, buildings are sharp and the air is clear. Shortly after noon, west winds moved through the Golden Gate breaking up the smog concentration leaving blue skies over the entire city."
