I had no idea - California as an oil state

[packman]

a bit of an eye-opener. I knew that there was some oil in the Golden State, but never would have thought this much:



Many more pictures of oil derricks and the role of oil in California - really interesting:

http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/06/30/greetings-from-californias-the-hellish-oil-pumping-state-of-yesteryear/

[MADem]

1. VICE covered this as an adjunct to that methane leak.....

You can't miss the derrricks going to and from the airport.

[Brother Buzz]

2. I drink your milkshake.

I drink it up!

[progree]

3. "In the 1930’s and 40’s, when California was producing nearly one quarter of the WORLD's oil output"

"and its population had grown to 1.2 million"



So my parents were teenagers in California back when it had only 1.2 million people. Must have seemed really empty compared to now (about 39 million)

[OxQQme]

4. I am of that era

having been born in LA in 1940 I have seen a lot of those with my own eyes.

Mom and Dad lived, for a couple of years, in a converted dirt floored garage that was adjacent to one of those pumps.
Me and my buds would ride it like a bronco. Yee Haw! We were six or seven tears old at the time.

An Aunt and Uncle lived on the Grand Canal in Venice, where mom and dad would leave me and my sis for a few weeks in the summers of '48 - '50.
Ten years old at the beach :0)
Coming back to auntie's covered in black sticky goo. YUCK

We're talking years before Marina del Rey came into existence.
I saw oil derricks such as those pictures.

Dad had a brother that lived in Garden Grove, in a house that was situated on the spot that Magic Mountain now resides.
We, as a family, would venture down there for an over-night visit (pre-freeway) from Burbank, and pass through those citrus groves studded with derricks. Miles of them.

Later, in my teen years, a bunch of us would truck our dirt bikes over and ride all around the Signal Hill complex.
Good times running from the security people. (at the time) (--looking back -@@- DUMB!)


Interesting fact: The San Fernando Valley had very few oil sites, comparatively.