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Originally Posted by revheavyg
"I own three blocks downtown, I've got oil in Bakersfield, pumping, pumping, pumping! What's it for but to buy us anything we want!"
I couldn't resist!!
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My great-aunt owned a pair of high-producing wells.
They gave her a very nice life :-)
All this Streamline is an excuse to post some pix of Manual Arts High School by John & Donald Parkinson, built after the 1933 Long Beach quake:
http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cd...ool/mode/exact
4131 S Vermont:
http://lookingforjohnparkinson.shutterfly.com/84[/img]
The new buildings replaced the original 1910 campus, also by Parkinson:
http://www.westadams-normandie.com/lapl/Schools.php
Some hard times at MAHS:
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep...banks-20110924
Stiles O Clements also did a Streamline High School, Thomas Jefferson HS, as
GW has already posted.
I'm hoping against hope Zara Zahn didn't get an "A" on her History essay :-(