There were and are oil pumpjacks right smack in the middle of some of LA's and Bakersfield's residential areas. Placentia, Signal Hill, Arvin, Mid-Wilshire, Pi

There were and are oil pumpjacks right smack in the middle of some of LA's and Bakersfield's residential areas. Placentia, Signal Hill, Arvin, Mid-Wilshire, Pico-Robertson, and on and on. There's even a pump jack under "The Tower of Hope" at Beverly Hills High operating until 2017.