Afew years ago I picked up my friend David from LAX and, bound for the Fairfax District, turned off La Tijera onto La Cienega. The fog had come in, and after we crossed Slauson, the wells of the Inglewood Oil Field suddenly appeared. Operating since 1924, the 1,000-acre Baldwin Hills site is one of the country’s largest urban oil fields. In the mist, the scattered, silhouetted rigs looked vaguely menacing, a petro-noir landscape of bobbing pump jacks. Then David said something unexpected: “I love those wells. That’s just L.A. to me.” I knew what he meant. It’s not like I’m chanting, “Drill, baby, drill,” each time I fill up my tank, but I’ve always thought of Los Angeles as an oil town, too. Though the…View Original PostThe post Above the Surface and Below, L.A. Is Still an Oil Town appeared first on Los Angeles Magazine.