Vintage shots from days gone by!

El Reno, Oklahoma. We had a number of fatalities in this town's area in the tornadoes a few days ago. I thought it appropriate to put up a picture or two of the town "back in the day."

 

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Pamela Tiffin

 

I remember an oil field between Huntington Beach and Newport Beach on P.C.H. as late as 1967. They weren't platform derricks, they had been converted to the more modern style like this...

 

I've never been farther South on the PCH than Santa Monica. My motherinlaw grew up in Hollywood, and I remember her talking about the derricks.

 

I bet this ended well

 

This is from Liverpool, So I'm thinking the Hornby factory.



Here's a nice one, apparently a USA press release pic:



Mart.

 

Photo By REED SAXON/ASSOCIATED PRESS

There are still a lot of those pumpjacks there along PCH and around the area. As of last fall there were still some of the old derricks in Brea Canyon.

 

Boy working in factory

 

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A view of "The Masons' Wreck" at Alna, Maine in 1905. The engineer, Ed Plummer, and fireman, Otis Quiney, jumped into brook as the engine began to head downward into the brook. There were no injuries in the accident. A temporary bridge and rails was set up so traffic could move on the line, but it took two weeks before Engine #4 was hauled from the brook. The workers used teams of oxen and block and tackle to recover the engine. Information source: "Two Feet to Tidewater; Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway" by Robert C. Jones & David L. Register.

 

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How many of you old timers remember when H.P. was called "TIN CAN BEACH" during WWII ??
When WWII started, there was a tremendous influx of out of staters pouring in to SoCal to work in the defense plants, aircraft, & shipyards.
The housing situation was nil to accomodate such a mass arrival.
So, many took to the H.P. beach areas with make shift tents & cardboard leanto's, as time went by, eating out of thousands of tin cans, there became quite a pile of trash.
After WWII in 1945, the beach gang (some, NOT all) were returning to their former homes across the USA.
Eventually the trash was cleaned up all along the affected beach & a power plant emerged for needed power in that area.

I remember still seeing the wood derricks as I drove down to San Diego each weekend when in the USN in 1951-----Don