| Collection Name: |
Long Beach Area History: Responses to Subsidence and the Tidelands Controversy |
| 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/page30.html |
| Material Formats: |
[4 documents with audio] |
| Description: |
In the late 1930s, oil was discovered under Long Beach harbor. Its production helped Long Beach recover from the Depression and provided revenue to support expansion and modernization of the harbor as well as enriching individuals who owned land in the area. As a result when land near the oil field began to sink, those who were profiting from pumping the oil out from under the land resisted any suggestion that there could be a link between oil production and subsidence. They hired experts to defend their position. As the subsidence continued, those whose property was damaged by the sinking, but who were not benefiting from the oil production, hired experts to determine what was really causing the sinking. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
4 |
| Interviews: |
[4 interview(s) listed in this collection] |
| Broad Subjects: |
History; Communities |
| ASP Subjects: |
California; Community; Land use--Long Beach (Calif.); Local history; Long Beach, CA; Oil fields; Oil industries; Oral history; Shipyards; Subsidences (Earth movements)--Long Beach (Calif.); U.S. Navy; United States |
| Other Subjects: |
Tidelands Controversy |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0000249 |
