Subject: Oil wells--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of an exploratory, or wildcat, oil well at Ocean Park Heights, perhaps the Newlin well at Palms and Grand View.
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with article, "TRIANGLE OIL SYNDICATE BOOKS SEIZED BY STATE: President and Secretary..." Los Angeles Times, 21 Jul. 1923: II1.
Date:: July 21, 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: ANSWER: This is the Grand Canal of Venice--Venice, Cal. Photograph of this section of the beach city's long-abandoned--and now revived--idea to emulate Venice, Italy, with a system of canals, was made looking south of the N Venice Blvd. bridge over the Grand Canal.
Date:: May 22, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: ANSWER: Now that you think of it, the beach shown in the photo is the broad expanse of the municipal beach at Venice, looking south toward Playa del Rey. That horizontal black line in center of the picture is the Pacific Ocean. What the photo lacks: Bathing beauties.
Date:: May 17, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: ANSWER: Well, it's one of those old oil wells that are on the southern slopes of the Elysian Park hills, virtually a stone's throw from the bustling Civic Center. This one is in the back yard of what was once the residence of Thomas O'Brien, once one of the finest "country homes outside Los Angeles." Disonicio Sanchez has lived there for 30 years and, being pretty hep on the place's history, he should know. Exact location is a knoll at the corner of W College and Centennial Sts.
Date:: February 7, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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