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For LA, there's another factor that you left out: Oil. There's a fair bit of oil under the LA basin (hence the tar pits), and the commercialization of that is w
by OkayPhysicist 3y ago
For LA, there's another factor that you left out: Oil. There's a fair bit of oil under the LA basin (hence the tar pits), and the commercialization of that is what made LA the boom town it became. The aerospace and military presences followed the oil.
- jedberg 3y agoMy grandma got a royalty check for the oil under her west LA house every month. It was just a few bucks but it amused me that they still did it as late as the 1990s.