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Originally Posted by OLeander5-5225
While walking in my neighborhood known as Mid City West or Beverly Grove, I found at the corner of S. Flores Street and W. 3rd Street a pool of bubbling tar (research of the stuff from the 'net identifies it properly as asphalt). This piqued my interest and after doing some research, I found that my neighborhood was once a huge field of oil wells, sitting atop an old field called the Salt Lake Oil Field. And in fact, where the stuff is bubbling up is almost directly above an old plugged oil well....
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There are 3,000 active oil wells in Los Angeles, a surprising number of them hidden in faux buildings. Oil is still being pumped from under the
BevCen and elsewhere in the Salt Lake Field. The subject's been covered on the thread.