Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

[curious2garden]

Yesterday was my 3 year anniversary on RIU.

Sorry you missed the party, it was epic!

 

[Jeffislovinlife]

I liked it better when I was a kid, before they turned into an amusement park. They cheapened it by putting lifesize statues of critters stuck in the pit. The museum part is really good. When I was young most of the fossil finds were over at the LA County museum

What the what I was actually hoping that was only in the movie Volcano that sucks

 

[Laughing Grass]

I liked it better when I was a kid, before they turned into an amusement park. They cheapened it by putting lifesize statues of critters stuck in the pit. The museum part is really good. When I was young most of the fossil finds were over at the LA County museum

All my knowledge on tar pits comes from this Simpson's episode.

Sorry you missed the party, it was epic!

I tried catching up. You guys post a LOT on the weekend.

 

[Singlemalt]

This is La Brea in 1910:

 

[curious2garden]

I liked it better when I was a kid, before they turned into an amusement park. They cheapened it by putting lifesize statues of critters stuck in the pit. The museum part is really good. When I was young most of the fossil finds were over at the LA County museum

Yeah I remember that change ;(

 

[BudmanTX]

Lg...ever get down this direction go here.......Dino State Park......you can actually touch the dino tracks and see them first hand....when the river is down you can really get close....

 

[DarkWeb]

Sorry you missed the party, it was epic!

Weekends

 

[curious2garden]

Weekends

 

[raratt]

This is La Brea in 1910:
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That's a lot of oil derricks...

 

[Metasynth]

@Laughing Grass congrats in your RIU birthday, and I can’t believe that no one here told you that paintball guns leave welts. Lol, some friends WE are!

@Paul Drake yeah, I’ve been to the La brea tar pits, they used to have a window in the museum where you could watch people picking off stone from fossils. The best part was smoking weed under the giant magnolia trees in full bloom down there. That’s the memory that stuck.

 

[Singlemalt]

That's a lot of oil derricks...

Yep, that was the Beverly Hills oilfields. There was a lot of oil in the LA basin back then; many were still active even when I was a kid(though not Beverly Hills)

 

[Metasynth]

That's a lot of oil derricks...

Orange county back in the day…maybe Huntington Beach area

 

[Metasynth]

Yep, Huntington Beach oil field

 

[raratt]

Yep, that was the Beverly Hills oilfields. There was a lot of oil in the LA basin back then; many were still active even when I was a kid(though not Beverly Hills)

I remember seeing a couple pumps somewhere in the LA basin when I was a kid. I thought it was strange to have a bunch of businesses surrounding a fenced in pump.

 

[Laughing Grass]

Lg...ever get down this direction go here.......Dino State Park......you can actually touch the dino tracks and see them first hand....when the river is down you can really get close....

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You're just trying to get me muddy.

 

[Metasynth]

I remember seeing a couple pumps somewhere in the LA basin when I was a kid. I thought it was strange to have a bunch of businesses surrounding a fenced in pump.

The Inglewood oil field is still fairly active. They have to see pumps all over Kenneth Hahn park. And down by my gf’s in Long Beach, they have tons of active pumps all over some areas.

 

[Laughing Grass]

@Laughing Grass congrats in your RIU birthday, and I can’t believe that no one here told you that paintball guns leave welts. Lol, some friends WE are!

These are my people, these are my friends.

totally wasn't expecting to walk away with a bruise from my shoulder to my elbow lol.

 

[Paul Drake]

The Inglewood oil field is still fairly active. They have to see pumps all over Kenneth Hahn park. And down by my gf’s in Long Beach, they have tons of active pumps all over some areas.

I had no idea.

 

[Metasynth]

These are my people, these are my friends.

totally wasn't expecting to walk away with a bruise from my shoulder to my elbow lol.

Yeah, I have some horror stories that would have prevented you from going at all, but what fun is that?

 

[Paul Drake]

Yeah, I have some horror stories that would have prevented you from going at all, but what fun is that?

Fun for whom lol