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This is Pacific Coast Highway showing Huntington Beach oil wells. Back in the day, California used to be #2 in oil production in the USA, just behind Texas. CA does not even rate in the top 5 now. The top five crude oil-producing states and their percentage shares of total U.S. crude oil production in 2022 were: Texas 42.5% New Mexico 13.3% North Dakota 8.9% Colorado 3.7% Alaska 3.7% https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/where-our-oil-comes-from.php It is always hard to date things for the archivist when no dates are marked on the originals. Cars can help date things. The cars shown here are from mid 1920s. I saw another photo that was being sold from this collection of the Brea oil fields in CA that was dated 1927. So that gives some time frame. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Don't know when this was taken. The book it is in was from 1925. La Brea means The Tar in Spanish. When I was 15 or 16 I had a summer job in L.A. working with the Street Maintenace Dept. One day we had to go to a sewer manhole and suck out the tar seeping into the street on Wilshire Blvd. You could see tar seeping on the sidewalks near buildings that were near the Tar Pits. I got about $750 for the summer job. I used it to buy a Beseler MCRX enlarger...then was broke again. If you get a moiré pattern you can download it or go here and download. I never descreen halftone scans. All descreening does it make the image fuzzy and reduce the size of the file. If you ever want to descreen, you can do it in Lightroom by just reducing the sharpness. You can also try enlarging the image up and down with the mouse scroll wheel to find the sweet spot to view halftones. La Brea Tar Pits L. A. D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Press Photo of Midway-Sunset Oil Field, CA 1931 DDTJRAC Kilgore, Tx 1940 DDTJRAC I was told that CA used to produce as much oil as TX; but regulations eventually killed a lot of that production. Whether it is true or not, I don't know. But it is amazing the amounts of wells CA had back in the day. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

​I need some arriflex grease and oil for the internal gears on an arriflex 16mm S. Some thread already in your system mentioned trying to get it from a German company that may still make that type of lubricant. I have not heard from them yet. Any help is good. Michael Leake