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English: Photograph of the first oil district in Los Angeles, Toluca Street, ca.1895-1901. The oil field is closely packed with about 20 derricks which reflect in the standing water or oil on the ground in the foreground. Each derrick has a small building at its base. Oil pipes traverse the general area.
The Los Angeles City field is one of many in the Los Angeles Basin. To the west are the still-productive Salt Lake and Beverly Hills fields; to the south is the Los Angeles Downtown Oil Field. Ten miles east-southeast is the Brea-Olinda field, the first to be worked in the region.
Lumber production thrived as demand climbed for construction of railroads, refineries, and oil derricks, and, in 1907, Texas was the third largest lumber producer in the United States. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Growing cities required many new homes and buildings, thus benefiting the construction industry.
“She grabs Derrick’s hand and on the keyboard comes up, ‘We are in love.’” “She said, ‘Yes, we have made love,’” Johnson’s mother, Daisy Johnson, added.
The beginning of the contemporaneous age of oil is commonly thought of originating in 1901 with the strike at Spindletop by Croatian oil explorer Antun Lučić and Texan Patillo Higgins, near Beaumont, Texas in the United States which launched large-scale oil production and soon made the petroleum products widely available.
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A derrick is a lifting device, especially in an oil field. Derricks may also refer to: Anthony Derricks (born 1976), former Arena Football League defensive specialist/k.o. returner stand-out; Cleavant Derricks (actor) (born 1953), American actor and singer-songwriter
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