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Originally Posted by jcwade
That picture is actually Signal Hill California in 1944. Taken by Andress Feininger.
You can see the address at 6014 Atlantic Ave in the uncropped version.
The position of the cars are different, so it was taken from the same tripod position but a different negative.
I drive by there often, but it looks a little different today.
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Originally Posted by masraum
A lot of the cool old photos that Glenn posts with blurbs like this, I believe, come from Facebook. I often see the same photos and blurbs that he posts within a couple/few days± of him posting the photos. A lot of the photos are verifiable (if there of famous people or places, but I do occasionally see photos that seem a little unbelievable. I figure that they are probably usually real photos (not AI generated) but potentially with erroneous blurbs either to make them seem more interesting or just because the person didn't know or made something up or was quoting someone else that was wrong.
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I wasn't trying to criticize, just correct an incorrect caption. I just thought it was much more interesting that the photo was from Southern California rather than Oklahoma.
The photo was taken from Atlantic Ave looking north. Today, at the crest of the hill, to the right of the road is a Home Depot. There are still working grasshopper pumps on the left side of the road. In fact, over a billion barrels of oil have been pumped out of this oilfield over the last 50 years. And the photo was taken 80 years ago.
