Erik_Mag Wonder how many people realize that Point Conception is much more west of Ventura than north.
All these years and the first thing that comes to mind with oil in that area is massive undersea leakage...
I remember going on a 4th grade (Ladera Elementary in T.O.) field trip to the Union Oil site just NW of Ventura, remember the tank for the drilling mud, seeing the drill bits and coring bits as well as the Christmas trees on the well heads. Since this was 63-64, it must have been at least a couple of years after you saw NK.
Wonder how many people realize that Point Conception is much more west of Ventura than north.
On the tracks or on the service road beside the tracks?
I could not locate this enjoyable review but have a short story that will date me. I was working for Union Oil and living in Ventura. One of our fields was at Point Conception. This was a very desolate place with the SP coast line near by. The wind always was blowing picking up sand and all of our equipment was sand blasted to shiny steel on the windward side and still painted in the leaward side. Vandenberg base was a few miles north and when the AF was launching they would station monitoring equipment at our field site. One time while visiting the field I drove a mile over the SP tracks to a small general store to get a meager lunch. When I got to the tracks I had to wait on a slow moving Fairmont speeder. There were several people on board who were closely inspecting the track. After my "gourmet" lunch I was heading back to the field and had to wait until a passenger train passed. The last car had an open vestible and Nikita Khrushchev was standing there enjoying the view. We waved to each other..an experience I will never forget.
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