In 1930 Edward Doheny had what is described as a site dedication ceremony at or near the site where he first discovered oil in 1892. It looks like there might be a microphone in front of where he's standing, which is described as "south side of Court Street, east of Patton, 2½ blocks east of Glendale Boulevard." But on Court Street, Patton is actually one block east of Glendale Blvd. Anyway, Doheny is the guy on the platform in the straw hat with his right hand raised:
USC Digital Library (
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/203/rec/1)
Posted here earlier by
gsjansen in April 2011, but the link is now dead.
Probably all but at least two of these four-pics-in-one are of the same event:
LAPL (
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics36/00037762.jpg)
The dilapidated oil rig that Doheny's standing on in the USC photo is also shown in the top right and bottom left LAPL photos. Note the building at the left edge of the bottom left photo. We're looking end-on at it and its two slanted rooflines; there's a larger building behind it with a chimney. Both buildings are in the USC photo as well, but you can't see the two slanted rooflines as well.
The larger building with the chimney is gone, but here's the building with the two slanted rooflines today, 183 Douglas St. at the SW corner of Colton St:
Google Street View
Looking at Google Earth and trying to figure out where that old oil rig Doheny was standing on was in relation to the blue house on the corner of Douglas and Colton (marked by a blue arrow), I think it was about in the NE -- or lower left, as we're looking at it -- corner of the one building on the block, the Echo Park Pool:
Google Earth
I hope those old oil wells are tightly capped.