blackandwtf: 1928 When oil was discovered along the Kern River bank in 1899 near Bakersfield, California, thousands of fortune seekers, oil companies, and railroads rushed to the state, setting up oil fields up and down the coast. This particular picture is from Huntington Beach (Surf City).

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1928

When oil was discovered along the Kern River bank in 1899 near Bakersfield, California, thousands of fortune seekers, oil companies, and railroads rushed to the state, setting up oil fields up and down the coast. This particular picture is from Huntington Beach (Surf City).

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    have changed since then.
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    The oil rush of 1899 - Huntington Beach, CA Oil companies and the like flocked to areas like to this to be the first to...
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    looks like something out of some sort of dystopian film…
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    this looks surreal.
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