Signal Hill Oil Derricks — Long Beach, California — Vintage Plastichrome Postcard c.1950s

Dozens of towering wooden oil derricks crowd the famous Signal Hill skyline against a vivid California sky — a landscape of "Black Gold" that has since completely vanished from the Southern California coastline. A striking piece of industrial Americana published in the Plastichrome process by Colourpicture of Boston and distributed locally by Mitock & Sons of Sherman Oaks, capturing Signal Hill at the peak of its petroleum era since 1921. Crisp and vivid with the classic saturated chrome color that makes mid-century postcards so collectible.

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Location: Signal Hill / Long Beach, California, USA

Era: c.1950s–1960s