| Collection Name: |
Long Beach Area History: Petroleum Entrepreneurs |
| Repository Name: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Long Beach, California, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.csulb.edu/projects/voaha/summary/page24.html |
| Material Formats: |
[9 documents with audio] |
| Description: |
The development of southern California oil fields in the 1920s attracted people from all over the country who were hoping to strike it rich. Although most of them didn't, some became successful by supplying equipment to drillers, buying and selling petroleum products and drilling wells for speculators. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
9 |
| Interviews: |
[9 interview(s) listed in this collection] |
| Broad Subjects: |
Industry and Labor; History; Economics; Communities |
| ASP Subjects: |
California; Community; Entrepreneurship--United States; Long Beach, CA; Oil fields; Oil industries--Employees; Oral history; Petroleum industry and trade; Signal Hill, CA; United States |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0000245 |
