Oil derricks and beach-goers at the Huntington Beach, California, 1930's.
The Huntington Beach coastline used to be lined with oil derricks. Oil discoveries in 1920 and 1921 in Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Santa
Fe Springs drove massive drilling.
In Huntington Beach, the initial growth of the city began with the oil boom in 1920. This was the largest California oil deposit known at the
time. Wells sprang up overnight and in less than a month the town grew from 1,500 to 5,000 people.
By the late 1950s, the city’s Fire Department and oil companies began cleaning up the old wooden derricks and replacing them with steel
pumping units. Those would line the beaches until the early ’80s, when Chevron began selling off its land downtown. City officials refocused
from an oil town to Surf City, USA.
Today, there are almost 400 wells up and running along Pacific Coast
Highway between Goldenwest Street and the Bolsa Chica wetlands.
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#2 - Just the thought of having Mercurochrome put on the wound usually hurt more than the wound
ReplyDelete#3 - And for some reason we always looked forward to the new phone books coming out every year and seeing our names in them.
#6 - They were good people and they never age in my memories
#8 - Perry Mason would be the one and if he wasn't available then Columbo
#10 - Just as much as i am homesick for that life, i am angry that it was slowly taken away from future generations
eclectickelvin, Those were great times..
DeleteThe last one.
ReplyDeleteWe can have that back if we bring accountability back.
The simple act of making one accountable for their actions.
But that’s going to be difficult. Like a spoilt child, once you realize screaming and crying excludes you from the responsibility of the mess you created, you’ll have to be dragged back by the harshest of realities before you’ll ever begin to think another way.
And those harsh realities have only just begun.
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fjf0351, we see things pretty much the same I'm afraid.
DeletePerry Mason... none of his clients were ever found guilty.
ReplyDeleteGB
That's not true. Perry Mason had at least one client who was found guilty. There may even have been two.
DeleteGB, I'm afraid JustaJeepGuy is right.
DeleteI'm calling Bailey & Spencer. If I can't get them, I'm going to LA and find Mr Lee.
ReplyDeleteedutcher, there you go again, changing the rules in the middle of your quest.
DeleteI like every one of those investigators but I'm gonna halve to go with Columbo.
ReplyDeleteAnon, that could get you freed.
DeleteThere are "fake" buildings along Wilshire blvd and others in L.A. that simply cover oil wells.
ReplyDeleteAnon, I've heard that for years, and I lived there. I just looked it up and it's true. Near the La Brea Tar Pits no doubt.
DeleteBased on this trial success rate: Perry Mason will get my call for help.
ReplyDeleteJohn, I grew up with him. My mother was a fan, and then my wife.
DeleteMercurochrome. I'm surprised children like myself didn't suffer PTSD because of that stuff.
ReplyDeleteSonofaGunn, contained Mercury.
DeleteIt's the first hard-bound telephone directory I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteAnon, me too.
DeleteBefore the wells, the beaches in so cal were covered in oil from seepage.
ReplyDeleteAnon, we kids used too have too clean our feet when we got home.
DeleteWith respect to the oil derricks in HB does anyone here remember using Baby Oil to wipe off the tar on your feet after going to the beach? Or Beach Whistles?
ReplyDeleteAnon, we used something called Enerene llike todays Goof-off..
Delete#3) Pepperidge Farms remembers
ReplyDeleteAnon, they do?
Deleteonce AGAIN....you are mistaking mercurochrome for methiolate!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnon, No I'm not ... look it up.
DeleteI was a teenager in the 70's, no "Dude" would have a basket on his handlebars. A "Dude" would have saddlebags below the banana seat. I had an Apple Crate 5 speed Schwinn that sported a springer chopper style front end. All guys wanted to be "The Dude", I managed sometimes.
ReplyDeleteTsquared, that's why God created left arms.
DeleteI'm calling Rockford, while the others may be better investigators, Jim will break the law to prove my innocence. I appreciate those who go the extra mile!
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