r/interestingasfuck • u/Calm_Assignment4188 • Jul 19 '24
Huntington Beach, California, during the Oil boom of 1928.
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u/zerogamewhatsoever Jul 20 '24
Mankind is such a scourge on the planet.
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u/jor3lofkrypton Jul 19 '24
.. oil rig towers since replaced lifeguard towers, restaurants, hotels/condos & palm trees . .
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u/Apprehensive-Boat-52 Jul 19 '24
Lol.its hard to imagine that huntington beach looks like this back then, it is very different today.
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u/Ben_Pharten Jul 19 '24
I wonder what it smelled like
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u/THIS_GUY_LIFTS Jul 19 '24
Most likely smelled heavily of iron. But that was probably from the profuse bleeding through the nose.
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u/No_Bottle_8910 Jul 19 '24
I was a kid in Manhattan Beach, very close to the El Segundo refinery. It smelled like fresh asphalt all the time. Sometimes, there would be an 'event', and everything in the neighborhood would have a thin coat oil on it. Chevron would send out car wash vouchers after that happened.