The oil industry has wreaked havoc on L.A.'s environment, including pollution, fires and the release of toxic gas. “We’re still dealing with the legacy of oil and gas production 150 years ago.” How L.A.'s oil boom shaped the city we know today:
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“Oil, motion pictures and real estate were like the trifecta of forces that were attracting migrants to come west to L.A.,” said Becky Nicolaides, a research affiliate at USC and UCLA. “Oil was kind of right up there with the glamor of Hollywood.”in Los Angeles set in motion a spurt of economic and population growth, alongside pollution and environmental devastation.
Many oil industry workers in Oklahoma and Texas made the journey west, joining others migrating from other parts of California and farther-flung states. “They followed the oil,” Elkind said.from less than 600,000 to more than 1.2 million. Oil was an important factor beyond the petroleum itself. “This was really typical of real estate hawking in the ‘20s,” she said. “They were selling the dream that you could buy a tract in this little community and strike it rich.”“They first discovered oil in Signal Hill in June of 1921,” Nicolaides said. “It went from being this sleepy little rural town to the richest community in the nation.”“It was very much a story of haves and have-nots in [the oil] industry,” Nicolaides said.
Despite the unpleasant sides of the industry, many workers ended up staying in L.A., Quam-Wickham said, especially as oil production stabilized and jobs shifted to refinery work. “The refinery workforce is a lot more stable. That’s when people put roots down.”
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