@MrJethroha
So the Beverly Hillbillies only moved from one oil field to another?
@DariusRex
Dude, I am so glad you did this video. No one in my family believes me when I tell them about the history of Oil in LA, and my family has been there since the 1890s! This is a well-detailed but concise overview of the history and geology of the area. Really glad I found your channel many months back.
@cayankeelord3730
It's interesting that when you drive down Wilshire boulevard, there are a few office buildings, that are not. They are empty shells made to look like any other building, yet inside they hide an oilwell pump-jack, storage tank and pipeline/pump transfer station. Who knew right? The city of Pacific Palisades have their own oilwells and derive a lot of revenue from them. There is so much hidden from view, it's mind blowing.
@suntaog
I think it was my fourth-grade class that went to the tar pits back in the '60s. I think it was in 1967. Born and raised down there. A great place to be *from*.
@ETBrenner
I lived in San Diego in the 2000s and regularly drove up to LA, and was always startled when I drove through a neighborhood and came across oil wells just quietly pumping away, tucked into little fenced-off areas between the house backyards. Also impressive to me was driving along Wilshire Blvd and getting smacked in the shnozz by the La Brea Tar Pits asphalt reek before their museum area even came into view. Not what I've come to espect from a cityscape, to put it mildly! But makes total sense given the fascinating geological history of the area.
@jamesriggsdds2337
Well written and narrated! Good one!
@stephenbird5472
It is not just LA. There are major oil fields on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. The area around Coalinga has also been pumping oil since the 1890's. Many of these abandoned wells could be reopened today with modern technologies but the state gov. does not allow it. By the way, the smog is not that bad today. If you want to see what it used to be like watch an old episode of the Rockford Files (circa 1975).
@charlesdowell4505
My father worked for Standard Oil of Southern California in the 60’s and retired from them, he was a pumping operator at 13 th and broadway downtown LA I visited there many times as a teen. Standard Oil was force to shut down and he eventually went to work at an off shore platform out of Santa Barbra .
@eslnoob191
It should be noted too that there's a ton of oil off the coast as well. I love nearby Catalina Island, but you're almost guaranteed to step in tar if you walk around the island's beaches.
@galardmills5306
Great video! I’ve never heard the anticline and shale components, and they make sense. Fortunately, the pump jacks are still pumping. I laugh when I stop at a grocery store or restaurant in Signal Hill, and there in the parking lot is a pump jack grinding away, day and night.
@DeadEyeDave
We CAN make plastic without oil. The first plastics were celluloids. Made from cellulose. That's right: wood pulp or sawdust can be made into plastics. It's just cheaper to make it from petroleum.
@chucko22758
I went to high school in Huntington Beach in the 1970s. The oil fields along the coast were still quite active. I gather they got depleted enough that they became far more valuable as developable real estate.
@stevep5736
Another great and informative video!! Thank you for sharing it with us !! 👍
@Hyperious_in_the_air
the most amazing part is how inconspicuous the industry is there. They hide wellhead rigs and pipeline pumps in faux sky scrapers, and all their fields are connected via pipeline to the refineries around Long Beach. To the average LA resident, they have to look hard to find the presence of one of the largest oil fields by productivity in the US
@Mr.Benson
With this great abundance of oil we have the highest average per gallon gas prices..wait, what!?
@deannekwon6822
Wow, look at allllll of those pumps from back in the 1920’s!
@ms_khoff
I learned things while watching this and had a good time while doing so!
@MrGGPRI
The La Brea free flowing tar pits comes to mind. In the 1940's+ we lived in ELA across from the US Rubber Co. now the Citadel and the Standard Oil co. notified residence owners of slant-drilling for oil under our properties. There were "grasshoppers" all around pumping oil 24/7.
@Super_Chief
I remember as a kid back in the 1960s taking the city bus from Pasadena to Long Beach. Just before the bus arrived in Long Beach, it would pass through an area called Signal Hill, which had more oil derricks than you could shake a stick at.
@solomonsoutdooradventures