Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1925

Photograph of Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1925. At center rise several metal derricks, some bearing signs on their towers. One to the left reads "KNOX POWELL STOCKTON WG DAVIS No. 4", while another behind it bears the sign "CAMINO Gasoline" across from yet another derrick bearing "CORY RANDALL Venice No.1". Beneath the oilrigs lie a series of structures, tanks, stacks and pipes. In the foreground sits a house-like structure bearing the name "Oil Fields Emergency Hospital" in front of another that reads "Walker Arms Garage." Beside these at right streams a street across which several automobiles, carts and people travel. Several plumes of smoke spew from stacks a the rightmost corner of the field beneath an oil derrick that reads "GOLDSMIT BROS INC [?]". In the distance, one can discern a residential area beneath a hillside. The mountains fade into the clouds in the far reaches of the background.