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So that odd shaped flower-painted tower sticking up behind Beverly Hills High School is not some weird sculpture - it's actually an oil well. And there is one behind the Beverly Center as well. And at the Farmer's Market. And inside a building on Pico. And numerous others.
VBS.tv, part of VICE, and host Nate Harrington, take a look at these oil wells, and offers good insight on their history and what the implications are for LA and its residents.
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I remember once googling images in search of a nice shot of the Carthay Theater and up popped an old aerial image featuring the long-gone landmark whose background blew me away because pretty much between all of what's now LACMA and the Grove was oil derricks.
I'm not sure if it's mentioned in the clip, but the Beverly High well is infamous as the subject of a lawsuit filed citing it as the source of increased occurences of cancers in the school's alums. I think it was either dismissed or the plaintiffs lost.