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Originally Posted by tovangar2
One has to love how water, gas and oil keep rising to the surface in LA, no matter how much we pretend otherwise. Sacatela Creek can still cause havoc at Wilshire and Mariposa.
BTW, the last well of the Los Angeles City Oil Field is supposed to be still pumping somewhere on two-block-long S Mountain View Ave, but I'll be darned if I find it.
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Mountain View Ave. just north of Miramar St. - that looks suspiciously like a tan-colored pumpjack next to the tanks in the center of this pic from Google Maps:
Here's another angle via Bing Maps, with the object in question circled:
A gate blocks visibility on Google Street View, but the little bit sticking up above the gate sure
looks like the top of a pumpjack:
