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@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I deleted my comment. Your trolls win. I'm sorry to have expressed my opinion on the ad. I should have just unsubscribed and went on my merry way. Lesson learned. People are willing to waste hours of precision time to go back and forth on a pointless video. I'm ashamed to have been a part of it. I'm frankly better than this.
@@Jason1975ism No, you're not, bud. As evidenced by this comment. And I don't even know the context. You're upset he did an ad/endorsement? How much do you pay to watch his videos?
I love that you still walk Willow to the bus every day. She will never forget that. I wish I had the opportunity to be such a positive influence on someone's life. I've always enjoyed your content; but it's heartwarming to see the man behind the name.
As a veteran of drilling rigs, I find this entire story terrifying. Great pains have been taken for many years to prevent this exact sort of thing. It’s amazing that this flow was never ignited. If you’d like to see what could have happened, look up the devil’s cigarette lighter. That one was offshore, fortunately.
Things have changed a lot since the Lakeview Gusher was drilled. What I found most striking is how slow those cable tool rigs drilled. Over a year to drill 680m (2,100 ft.), the record well I was on we drilled from 830m to 3983m in 124 hours. Thankfully these days if the crew is paying attention a blow out like theLakeview Gusher wouldn't happen.
"Drainage, Eli. DDRRRRAAAAIIIINAGE, you boy. If I have a milkshake, and you have a milkshake, AND I HAVE STRAWWWWWW... and reaches ALLLLLLL THE WAY OVER...and... I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE! *I DRINK IT UP!!"*
I'm a diesel mechanic that lives an hour from this site. I go there at least once a year to pay homage to the men that made modern industry possible. It's comparable to a pilgrimage to Mecca.
My friends and I used to spend weekends wakeboarding and tubing at Buena Vista when we were kids. Some of the best days of my life so far have been had at that little shallow lake!
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel We had a cat named Elvis who at his peak was a lean mean rock and roll machine, 13 pounds of fighting, scrapping alley cat, but in his old age he bloated into the Las Vegas version at 18 pounds.
I worked outside of Taft for a number of years, right down the road from the Lakeview wellhead. There are numerous petroleum-cemented remnants of the burlap sandbags to be seen surrounding the wellhead. It must have been quite a sight.
I worked a rig near Craig, Co back around 80. Loffland Bros., 186. It was enough to tell me I didn't want to be a roughneck for a living. I'd absolutely hate to have worked in the industry back at the turn of the century.
I’d love to see a history of life insurance and possibly the laws around the tax free status of the proceeds and maybe the history of the companies that offer policies.
Another interesting California oil "well" involved two Mojave desert prospectors who weren't having much luck. At home in Los Angeles, they decided to switch to oil. Not being drillers or knowing how to locate a well, they dug essentially a mine shaft in the land most available to them - their own yards - and struck oil! This set off a mini boom of home owners digging "water wells" hoping to replicate their success. Check out Canfield and Doheny.
That is a *big* cat. This story makes me think of the movie, "There Will Be Blood," (starring Daniel Day-Lewis). Mostly just because both are about striking oil in California at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.
@@bretrae9223, Callahan's, a crossroads tavern frequented by slippery characters with greasy hair and greasier smiles, who think they're pretty slick but their pitch to the ladies is sour and crude......
To learn more about the early history of oil in the United States, read The Greatest Gamblers by Ruth Sheldon Knowles. Drake's well to Spindle Top, West Texas, and, yes, California.
I was born very close to the Lakeview Gusher about 50 years after. My Grandfather worked for Texaco in the '40s and "50s. Oil put a lot of food on the tables of a lot of people not only in CA. but all over the US. I have seen all the sights in and around Bakersfield and Taft. Spent a lot of time in Taft as a young child and remember playing in the "desert" and seeing all the pumpjacks going up and down day and night. I remember going to the site of the gusher and seeing the remains. I didn't understand it then but do now. Mayhaps I'll go back and visit.
Still puts food on my table. My extended family and I have collectively three wells on our grandparents property in the Bakken in ND. We live like kings, getting about $1000/year each between the 29 of us. Our parents dreamed of being millionaires. Sigh. Still, every bit helps the budget, ya know.
Thank you for the lesson. The well produced about 9 million barrels over its lifetime. Less than half of what the US consumes on a daily basis in 2024. California is the 7th largest domestic producer and 3rd largest domestic refiner of petroleum products. California is oil is heavier than West Texas Intermediate and is mainly used for production of asphalts, and tars.
Ah, but Shell put its first refinery in California to make high-test aviation gasoline because California crude is much higher in the cyclic hydrocarbons such as toluene.
@@floycewhite6991 Only about 25% of California petroleum products come from California oil. About 60 percent is from overseas suppliers and the rest is from the US. California oil is extremely dirty California oil has one of the largest carbon foot print worldwide. Refining CA oil releases more Green House Gasses than any other global oil product.
There are far worse things to do than holding a cat for the rest of the day! Enjoy your feline company and keep the wonderful nuggets of history coming!
Bear shows up at your house. Cat? I'm out of here man. Dog? Get of my lawn! I'll whoop your ass? Big or little a dog will go up on a bear for you. That's why I got a dog.
There must have been 30 dogs lived on my street in Tn. They kept the bears far away. They just smell them and go crazy, next thing, every dog is going crazy. Mine included.
I have two BIG Anatolian Shepherds and a Labrador/ Pitbull mix (video on my channel). They're very friendly and well-behaved with people and small kids, but if a bear came around they'd chase it into the next county.
That’s nothing, Come and listen to my story ‘bout a man named Jed, poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed, and then one day he was shootin’ at some food…
Glory!!! After so much struggles i now own a new house with an influx of $115, 000 every month God has kept to his words, my family is happy again everything is finally falling into place. God bless America.🙌🏻
Hello, how do you achieve such biweekly returns? As a single parent i haven't been able to get my own house due to financial struggles, but my faith in God remains strong.
I raised 75k and Kate Elizabeth Becherer is to be thanked. I got my self my dream car 🚗 just last weekend, My journey with her started after my best friend came back from New York and saw me suffering in dept then told me about her and how to change my life through her.Kate Elizabeth Becherer is the kind of person one needs in his or her life! I got a home, a good wife, and a beautiful daughter. Note: this is not a promotion but me trying to make a point that no matter what happens, always have faith and keep living!
If you want to sell insurance open another. Page . If you want to share something intelligent great. I don't have time to listen to a 5min insurance advertisement before you get. To the knitty gritty
I used to live near the site, and I've been there several times. Years ago I worked in the oil industry. The old timers on the crew took me out to see the site and spoke of the gusher as one would a legend of old.
if one considers the comment by the preacher saying oil keeps the fires of hell...... think about the current state of our nation..... how accurate was this statement...... really.....
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The hyperlink above is broken. The "Thanks" got wrapped in.
@@Keifsanderson thanks for the heads up! Fixed.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I deleted my comment. Your trolls win. I'm sorry to have expressed my opinion on the ad. I should have just unsubscribed and went on my merry way. Lesson learned. People are willing to waste hours of precision time to go back and forth on a pointless video. I'm ashamed to have been a part of it. I'm frankly better than this.
@@Jason1975ism No, you're not, bud. As evidenced by this comment. And I don't even know the context. You're upset he did an ad/endorsement? How much do you pay to watch his videos?
@@Keifsanderson don't you have anything better to do with your time?
Thanks for sharing cameos of your kitty.😊
I wish I could take credit. Whether the cat participates is entirely up to the cat.
I love that you still walk Willow to the bus every day. She will never forget that. I wish I had the opportunity to be such a positive influence on someone's life. I've always enjoyed your content; but it's heartwarming to see the man behind the name.
As a veteran of drilling rigs, I find this entire story terrifying. Great pains have been taken for many years to prevent this exact sort of thing. It’s amazing that this flow was never ignited. If you’d like to see what could have happened, look up the devil’s cigarette lighter. That one was offshore, fortunately.
I went to Kuwait as a civilian in the spring of 1991 and the heat from a burning oil well was unbearable from about 1/4 mile away.
@@Chris_at_Home and those were babies compared to this!
@@stevekreitler9349 I’ll bet. I worked in the oil field most of my career. I’ve been on a few rig floors doing wireline for a year.
It is amazing what we learn from you, and in an entertaining manner. Thank you.
Things have changed a lot since the Lakeview Gusher was drilled. What I found most striking is how slow those cable tool rigs drilled. Over a year to drill 680m (2,100 ft.), the record well I was on we drilled from 830m to 3983m in 124 hours. Thankfully these days if the crew is paying attention a blow out like theLakeview Gusher wouldn't happen.
Bariod became a great thing for pressure control.
"Drainage, Eli. DDRRRRAAAAIIIINAGE, you boy. If I have a milkshake, and you have a milkshake, AND I HAVE STRAWWWWWW... and reaches ALLLLLLL THE WAY OVER...and... I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE! *I DRINK IT UP!!"*
I still freakout in bowling alleys from seeing that film. 😅
I just posted a phrase from that movie before I saw this!! 😂😂
I'm a diesel mechanic that lives an hour from this site. I go there at least once a year to pay homage to the men that made modern industry possible. It's comparable to a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Reminds me of several gfs.
@@VoodooDangerbirdyeah, that's neither gross nor weird 🙄
Deep
You should make a video on the worlds first oil well in Titusville PA...Drake's well.
I'd be shocked if he hasn't made that video yet.
My friends and I used to spend weekends wakeboarding and tubing at Buena Vista when we were kids. Some of the best days of my life so far have been had at that little shallow lake!
Thats a monster cat you have there
He's pretty good sized, yes.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Might have to slow down on giving him the 3 Tbone steaks, and rack of lamb for dinner every night🤣
A guy once told me, "If housecats reached 100lbs., no child would be safe!" 😅
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel We had a cat named Elvis who at his peak was a lean mean rock and roll machine, 13 pounds of fighting, scrapping alley cat, but in his old age he bloated into the Las Vegas version at 18 pounds.
What a great story about the early days of the California oil industry. Thanks, THG
My cat Belle is probably a cousin of your fuzzy friend. She helps us every morning with our computer tasks.
Outstanding episode!
Love the cat
When you and your cat closed the show, one of mine who had been lying in front of the monitor, sat up to watch.
Enjoy your content, and delivery!
such a great storyteller !
This makes me want to watch There Will Be Blood.
I didn't care for that movie at all.
I love your kitty 🐈 they have a lot of love to give,, thanks for the video i never heard about this story 💪💪💪💪👍😎😎
Thanks! His name is Pocky.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel
Great name. Very apropos.
We love you, Mr. History Guy! And Mr. History Guy kitty, too!
His name is Pocky.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel, Is he a fan of the legendary New Orleans piano player Professor Longhair? 🎵 🎶 "Hey, Pocky Way" 🎵 🎶 !
3:03 cutie kitty 😻
17:57 " that's it, I'm holding a cat for the rest of the day." 🫶
Come for the info. Stay for the cat.
I worked outside of Taft for a number of years, right down the road from the Lakeview wellhead. There are numerous petroleum-cemented remnants of the burlap sandbags to be seen surrounding the wellhead. It must have been quite a sight.
Listen to the story of a man named Jed....
Lol- I was thinking of working that in, but never did.
Just a couple of hundred yds from there is a massive lease that has produced millions of bbls of oil over the years
Great cat!!! Maybe your daughter can do a few "History Girl" episodes!!!
Aw...I just adopted a kitty in August whose coat color resembles your feline friend.
His name is Billy Jack. :)
Beautiful cat!
I worked a rig near Craig, Co back around 80. Loffland Bros., 186. It was enough to tell me I didn't want to be a roughneck for a living. I'd absolutely hate to have worked in the industry back at the turn of the century.
At least you tried it, dude!
Personally loved working on oil rigs, greatest job on the planet. But I can 100 percent see where it’s not for everybody.
Thanks!
Thank you!
always love me some history cat!
Thank you for sharing!
I’d love to see a history of life insurance and possibly the laws around the tax free status of the proceeds and maybe the history of the companies that offer policies.
Another interesting California oil "well" involved two Mojave desert prospectors who weren't having much luck. At home in Los Angeles, they decided to switch to oil. Not being drillers or knowing how to locate a well, they dug essentially a mine shaft in the land most available to them - their own yards - and struck oil! This set off a mini boom of home owners digging "water wells" hoping to replicate their success. Check out Canfield and Doheny.
...and up from the ground came a-bubblin crude...
Sounds like the lots in Seal Beach.
I had to go back and delete my first comment. You're The History Guy for good reason!
Lakeview was the biggest blowout well for sure.
Traveling in California you can still see oil wells pumping oil.
like the cat😍
So do we, His name is Pocky.
Holding cats, I used to have more time to do that pre-internet.
Everything reminds me of her 😢
That is a *big* cat.
This story makes me think of the movie, "There Will Be Blood," (starring Daniel Day-Lewis). Mostly just because both are about striking oil in California at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.
THG, what is this cat's name? This isn't Pookie, is it? I think that was your cat's name several years ago.
@@StevenDietrich-k2w sadly Pookie passed three years ago. This is Pocky.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thanks. I was wondering who you worked for. Now I know. All cat owners know what I mean.
Hey great story, do one about that valley in Persia intentionally covered with crude.
I don't really like jokes about unrefined oil.
They're too crude for my taste.
That's one for Punday night at Callahan's.
@@bretrae9223, Callahan's, a crossroads tavern frequented by slippery characters with greasy hair and greasier smiles, who think they're pretty slick but their pitch to the ladies is sour and crude......
Guard cat on duty?
Good morning! 👋🏽 😊
To learn more about the early history of oil in the United States, read The Greatest Gamblers by Ruth Sheldon Knowles. Drake's well to Spindle Top, West Texas, and, yes, California.
Very interesting!
I’m an oilman and this is my son HW 😂
I was born very close to the Lakeview Gusher about 50 years after. My Grandfather worked for Texaco in the '40s and "50s. Oil put a lot of food on the tables of a lot of people not only in CA. but all over the US. I have seen all the sights in and around Bakersfield and Taft. Spent a lot of time in Taft as a young child and remember playing in the "desert" and seeing all the pumpjacks going up and down day and night. I remember going to the site of the gusher and seeing the remains. I didn't understand it then but do now. Mayhaps I'll go back and visit.
Still puts food on my table. My extended family and I have collectively three wells on our grandparents property in the Bakken in ND. We live like kings, getting about $1000/year each between the 29 of us. Our parents dreamed of being millionaires. Sigh.
Still, every bit helps the budget, ya know.
LOVE YOU BEAUTIFUL KITTIES and thank THG🎀 for The Greatest Oil Well in the World History.....
Old F-4 Phantom fighter jet pilot Shoe🇺🇸
Thank you for the lesson.
The well produced about 9 million barrels over its lifetime.
Less than half of what the US consumes on a daily basis in 2024.
California is the 7th largest domestic producer and 3rd largest domestic refiner of petroleum products.
California is oil is heavier than West Texas Intermediate and is mainly used for production of asphalts, and tars.
Ah, but Shell put its first refinery in California to make high-test aviation gasoline because California crude is much higher in the cyclic hydrocarbons such as toluene.
@@floycewhite6991 Only about 25% of California petroleum products come from California oil.
About 60 percent is from overseas suppliers and the rest is from the US.
California oil is extremely dirty
California oil has one of the largest carbon foot print worldwide.
Refining CA oil releases more Green House Gasses than any other global oil product.
To be fair, Maricopa, California isn't anything to go see either.
Love your videos
What is creosote? When was it used and why did they stop using it?
lmgtfy?
There is an incredibly long Wikipedia page about creosote if you want to learn about it.
Yay Pocky!
Btw was it a cable rig or a rotery drill rig?
It wasn’t clearly specified in the news. Rotary was probably more likely by 1910.
cats are divisive
The area is covered with thick sage brush just how it was before the gusherand just a couple of hundred
One of the things my fiancé and her family were eager to show me when I came to Texas was Spindletop.
Could you do a history story about the La Brea Tar Pits.
PS. Or do a history video on the "hole in the head" in Bodega Bay California.
The internet is owned by cats.
Wait all that oil and your telling me no one has tried to drill it in modern times since then?
The aquifer was drained.
Good evening
Ibwonder if they forbid people from smoking in that county?
..damn good plug ..marketing guy
There are far worse things to do than holding a cat for the rest of the day! Enjoy your feline company and keep the wonderful nuggets of history coming!
How in blazes did these people manage not to set the thing on fire?
I was just thinking, you could have another channel about History Happening Today.
Brilliant
Bear shows up at your house. Cat? I'm out of here man. Dog? Get of my lawn! I'll whoop your ass? Big or little a dog will go up on a bear for you. That's why I got a dog.
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There must have been 30 dogs lived on my street in Tn. They kept the bears far away. They just smell them and go crazy, next thing, every dog is going crazy. Mine included.
I have two BIG Anatolian Shepherds and a Labrador/ Pitbull mix (video on my channel). They're very friendly and well-behaved with people and small kids, but if a bear came around they'd chase it into the next county.
The only dog that ever chased me out of a yard was a Chihuahua.
Running what? Means oil below. I cannot make out the word. Thanks!
I came here for a story about a man named Jed.
You fell victim to Cat Paralysis! History Guy! 😀🙏
We call that "Feline Paralysis."
He just wasn’t ready for me to put him down.
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally
At least they didn't have to use an atom bomb to stop it, like they did to a burning gas well in Uzbekistan.
Anyone who says that it's "better to read about it than see it", hasn't't seen #Wonderhussy's video on the place! Cheers!
I think that few people have seen it as often as she has.
Now they use the Internet for gas lighting.
That’s nothing, Come and listen to my story ‘bout a man named Jed, poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed, and then one day he was shootin’ at some food…
Oh how a times a change in California.
@@George-lp5qb how have times changed in California?
MELLOW CAT!!!!
LOL at that moment. He has different moods...
Is your cat really large or you very small?
Lol I am normal sized. He’s a good sized cat, yes.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel your cat is obviously in good hands👍
Glory!!! After so much struggles i now own a new house with an influx of $115, 000 every month God has kept to his words, my family is happy again everything is finally falling into place. God bless America.🙌🏻
Hello, how do you achieve such biweekly returns? As a single parent i haven't been able to get my own house due to financial struggles, but my faith in God remains strong.
I'm inspired.
Please spill some sugar about the biweekly stuff you mentioned
This is a definition of God's unending provisions for his people. God remains faithful to his words. 🙏 I receive this for my household
I raised 75k and Kate Elizabeth Becherer is to be thanked. I got my self my dream car 🚗 just last weekend, My journey with her started after my best friend came back from New York and saw me suffering in dept then told me about her and how to change my life through her.Kate Elizabeth Becherer is the kind of person one needs in his or her life! I got a home, a good wife, and a beautiful daughter. Note: this is not a promotion but me trying to make a point that no matter what happens, always have faith and keep living!
I started with a miserly $1500. The results have been mind blowing I must say TBH
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I used to live near the site, and I've been there several times. Years ago I worked in the oil industry. The old timers on the crew took me out to see the site and spoke of the gusher as one would a legend of old.
if one considers the comment by the preacher saying oil keeps the fires of hell...... think about the current state of our nation..... how accurate was this statement...... really.....
Yep we should all quit pumping it out of the ground.