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Old Posted Dec 10, 2012, 2:15 AM
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Los Angeles City Oil Field: the Last Well.

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Originally Posted by ProphetM View Post

A gate blocks visibility on Google Street View, but the little bit sticking up above the gate sure looks like the top of a pumpjack:

Thx :-) I saw the tanks, but missed the pump jack. Mystery solved.

Another field come and (almost) gone.


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Years ago a pumper/tank trunk used to regularly empty a pool of accumulated oil though a manhole on the Miracle Mile, the remains of the old Salt Lake Field, the one that caused the Fairfax Ross to explode in '85. Is that still going on?
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