Old photos of HB
This photo gallery of Huntington Beach from the 1920’s shows just how many derricks there used to be on and near the beach. I had no idea how many had been taken down over the years, but I suspect the huge and oily wooden beams we used in front of our HB house as planter sidings 30 years ago came from that infrastructure.
I also found another related image through Google that I can’t find the source for:
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YoMama
Wow. I had no idea.
I’ve heard it said that Huntington Beach used to be called “tin can beach” back in the day, maybe from tin can picnickers?
Chandra Shekhar Shakya
very good