There was a well known local TV reporter named Ruth Ashton Taylor who grew up in Signal Hill during it's heyday. He mom owned a diner that all the oil executives used to lunch at.

After going to the beach in the 50's, when we got home Dad would clean the tar and oil off our feet with gasoline.

'ThereWillBeBlood'

Build the Wall...Stop the Steal !!

Our Grandfather who I am named after Mapped the West Coast & Asia aboard the Coastal Geodetic Survey Ship Batch in the 1890's a 2 masted Schooner & he put on his charts possible oil deposits. He passed away in 1920 age 51. one of our Uncles had become friends with a Englishman who owned Avocado Grove on Signal Hill. He took our Grandfathers charts to him & told him to wait until =chevron Shell etc.. came to him. Explaining that they were drilling on the wrong side of the hill. Plus there were scammers trying to buy your Mineral Rights. So He waited & became a Multi Millionaire. He offered our Uncle a College education or a trip around the world. Our Uncle chose the around the world. He & the Englishman traveled all over the world.

I love oilfield history 💯👍

My father worked in Mobil Oil fields in Wilmington (5 miles from Long Beach) from about 1947 to 1970 when he was transferred to Bakersfield where he worked until the 90s. I come from three generations of oil workers. Grandfather drove teams of horses hauling lumber for Oklahoma oil derricks. Father worked for Mobil Oil for about 45 years. My brother started out in the oil field doing labor. He had to crawl into oil tanks to clean them. Air from outside was pumped in. No masks, no oxygen. He later worked for Mobil refinery in Torrance until he went back to school and became a 6th grade teacher for 19 years. He got multiple myeloma and died when he caught pneumonia. We think it was working for the dirty oil companies that killed him with the multiple myeloma. My father told us that because Wilmington was sinking, they pumped ocean water into the wells. Here is from Wiki: Withdrawal of large volumes of oil from the poorly consolidated sediments resulted in compaction of the oil reservoirs, and resultant sinking of the overlying land surface. Subsidence became apparent in 1940, and exceeded 20 feet at the center. Water injection to maintain pressure in the oil reservoirs began in 1953, which eventually stopped further subsidence. My father used to talk about making energy from ocean waves (which several companies are working on now). He knew back then that oil was not going to last forever. My husband and I have had solar panels for 21 years. Currently our electric bill is negative $109. But the electric company is probably going to start charging fees so that will all disappear. We only have a 3.5 KW system but we make more electricity than we use. I think some day, maybe 50 years from now, energy will all be clean and free.

Thanks Robbie Diaz. Good Documentary.

My uncle Ben Hare did the signal hill run

You’re really wonder if possibly taking out all of the oil in signal Hill, all of that cushion against all those different fishers in the Earth if maybe that caused the earthquake

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Is there anyway we can get in contact with you to talk about the history of signal Hill in this video that you made that is so wonderful

My name is david and I work for the Signal Hill Library and I’m starting to put up exhibits about the history of Signal Hill and currently I have an exhibit on the oil production. I want to know if there’s any way I can use these videos in the history room. I’ll be willing to pay a price for it so please contact me a soon as you can. Thank you.

Is there any way where I can email you and talk to you about these videos that are so wonderful

Very fascinating 😘I like real history videos 👍

My mother was a very good mother and is a very good mother sometimes I don't know as of late but she deserves to be buried in her methodist. Church cemetery with her mother and her father and you have the paperwork of that purchase property for her grave in her hand. Before she dies to give a lay to give a comfort and i'm trying my hardest

Grandmother at the Long Beach Cemetery El Vera. In the methodist cemetery part I guess that would be the job of the $2013 indean if it was AJ or a 2 with an O and then the 1 in 3. Together 1095 East Willow Signal Hill California.. 2013 map of Google where's AG is under my armpit in a leaf on Santa Monica boulevard of a 3 but it's also in the dirt. Of that aerial map

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I hear that noise sometimes when I get up too fast from sitting down on the ground 8:04

Yeah, my dad's coming DOWN the hill in his '22 Roadster at 26:23 after blowing a hole into the water jacket in the RAJO head. Was in '69. Returned in later years turning some decent times. Miss those days!

Uma coisa é certa a maior do mundo exxon e Esso é uma potência sem igual parabéns aos pioneiros.

I don't understand how, so many uploaders of videos, having what must be adequate time to really think about and and type out the title of the piece . . . . . but still fail to use proper English as the FIRST thing the viewer is faced with when deciding to watch or don't watch. Though my first inclination is to say, "if the person didn't give the attention to detail to the title . . . . how could it be a good video?" . . . . . I still have been watching them to see if my inclination is accurate . . . . . it mostly is.

Hi, Robbir

I work next to them a long with other oil companies.

FABULOUS!!!!!!

My father still receives oil royalties to this day from Signal Hill leases. He has since he inherited them from his mother in the 60’s. His grandmother’s uncle was the president of Dabney Oil. Still going for 100 years.

I grew up not too far from this area and I always asked why there wasn't multiple rail lines that ran through the base of Signal Hill insofar as relative to Oil Tanker rail car operations???

Thank you for this.

"What was the name of the farm next to the hill house?"

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That is my dad driving my 15 roadster at 8:07 seconds in.