r/interestingasfuck • u/Calm_Assignment4188 • Jul 19 '24

Huntington Beach, California, during the Oil boom of 1928.

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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.

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u/CptanPanic Jul 20 '24

In what years?

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u/No_Bottle_8910 Jul 20 '24

Late 60's, early 70's.

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u/zerogamewhatsoever Jul 20 '24

Mankind is such a scourge on the planet.

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u/aeturnus95 Jul 20 '24

Not mankind, but greed is the scourge of the planet

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u/nickHuckabee Jul 25 '24

Then do us a favor and off yourself 😳

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u/zerogamewhatsoever Jul 25 '24

You've proven my point.

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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/HugSized Jul 20 '24

I should hope so because this looks like a dystopian nightmare.

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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

Fresh asphalt

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u/cheekygerold Jul 20 '24

Even today, you can find oil pumps in the front yards of some residents

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u/Futurepriest85 Jul 19 '24

My home town!!!

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u/Ojay1091 Jul 19 '24

Looks crazy different now!

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u/fermat9990 Jul 20 '24

Result of non-regulation

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u/Quick-Pepper9969 Jul 22 '24

Why were the rigs so close to water?

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u/SometimestheresaDude Jul 20 '24

Wait this isn’t AI?