Explore California - Episode 7: California Oil Museum & Murals of Santa Paula
The Intangibles Production Team Hits the Road...
California Oil Museum is located in the famous Union Oil Company building in Santa Paula, and houses a unique display of antique gas pumps and oil industry memorabilia. We'll also take a peek at some of the gorgeous Murals of Santa Paula, revealing the city's striking heritage.
Explore California - Episode 2: Agriculture Museum - Santa Paula
The Intangibles Production Team Hits the Road... Episode Two takes us to the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula, part of the Museum of Ventura County. Kids can dress like a pioneer, see a real live beehive up close... even ride a tractor! Parents will enjoy the seasonal art exhibits, antique farm machinery, veggie garden and gift shop. Don't miss it!
Santa Paula Water Softener System
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Santa Paula is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. Situated amidst the orchards of the fertile Santa Clara River Valley, the city advertises itself to tourists as the Citrus Capital of the World. Santa Paula was one of the early centers of California's petroleum industry. The Union Oil Company Building, the founding headquarters of the Union Oil Company of California in 1890, now houses the California Oil Museum. The population was 29,321 at the 2010 census, up from 28,598 at the 2000 census.
West Kern Oil Museum - Taft California
It's a Southern California Road Trip to the West Kern Oil Museum in Taft California May 18th 2013.
Don and Debbie Hirlinger visit Taft California going to the Taft Prospector Club membership dinner. Before dinner we visited the West Kern Oil Museum. This is a free museum that is fun for Young and Old alike. If you ever find yourself in Taft California you will want to visit this museum.
Taft Gold Prospecting Club
19 McKevett Heights, Santa Paula, CA 93060
Welcome to one of the most elegant and interesting historic mansions in Santa Paula. The Duval home was created in 1925 to fulfill the needs of this Senator and founder of the Saticoy Country Club for entertaining and relaxing. State-of-the-art work was commissioned for both elegance and quality; this was California's first earthquake proof home. Leaded glass front door is original. Large windows with elegant treatments and many extras including a dumb waiter assure a unique and comfortable life. The large lot is professionally landscaped and includes a gazebo and koi pond, orchids and roses, and fruit trees. Santa Paula's rich history comes to life on this hillside and inside the home. Nearby is the historic railway station as seen on television and in many films. Historic Main Street is home to many car shows and the Union Oil Museum. Nearby is the Ventura County Museum which spotlights local agriculture and industry, and the famous private Santa Paula Airport.
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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Bakersfield: History of the Kern County Oil Industry
Kern County generates 76% of all the oil produced in California and is the largest oil producing county in the United States. Tour one of Bakersfield's oil fields, and hear from Bakersfield historian Jeff Nickell about the discovery of oil there in 1899 and learn how the oil industry has grown throughout Kern County.
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Santa Paula Ag Museum
Opening The new Ag Museum 25 Sept 2011
Visit Santa Paula: The Garden Market
Garden Market of Santa Paula is a local favorite know for their Cocina thats serves some of the best Mexican burritos in Southern California.
Come taste some of the best traditional Mexican food in California.
Early Oil and Gas Production in California
Early Oil and Gas Production in California - California Department of Conservation - DVD 2 - California Department of Conservation. Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources. An account of the early days in oil and gas fields in Ventura County.
Explore California - Trailer
The Intangibles Production Team Hits the Road... Welcome to our road trip: Explore California! Here's the very first look at our new series…
In upcoming webisodes, we’ll take a ride on the historic Fillmore & Western Railway; then we’ll head over to Santa Paula for a visit to the Airport Museum -- and exclusive interviews with airport luminaries Janice and Bruce Dickenson, and antique airplane pilot Dave Watson. We'll continue on into Historic Santa Paula, with visits to the Agriculture Museum and California Oil Museum. A drive north along Highway 150 into Ojai will bring us to Bart's Books -- the largest independently owned outdoor bookstore in the U.S. On the final leg of our journey, we'll head into Santa Barbara and sneak in on a glass-blowing class taught by Saul Alcaraz, owner of Santa Barbara Art Glass. And, finally, we'll stop in at the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens, a gorgeous venue where we'll learn a thing or two about California native plants.
Upcoming webisodes will be available exclusively here on our channel -- Subscribe for updates.
Melody Hall
An interview done at CAPS TV in Ventura California with four musicians from Santa Paula promoting an upcoming exhibit at the California Oil Museum. The exhibit entitled Melody Hall honoring musicians who have come out of Santa Paula California. The exhibit was put together by Eddie Arguellas a former teacher at Santa Paula High School. Melody Hall opens April 26th and runs through September 6th at the California Oil Museum 1001 E Main St, Santa Paula, CA 93060.
Produced by Darryl Dunn
1950s California Oil Well, Rare Colour Footage
From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit Clip ref LC21b
1950s California oil fields and oil well, men at work
Explore California - Episode 6: Aviation Museum of Santa Paula #4
The Intangibles Production Team Hits the Road...
One of them served in a foreign war, and the other appeared in a famous Hollywood movie. Dave Watson's de Havilland Gipsy Moths look like twin brothers, but they both have their own unique history. There's even a Charles Lindbergh connection!
Great History of Santa Barbara California
This week Michael sits down with noted Santa Barbara Historian Erin Graffy to talk about what makes our community so special. Charles Fernald, family moved in 1864.
Wild West to Gilded Age: American Treasures from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Featuring some of the California museum’s most beautiful gems, this exhibition offers a compelling overview of the most significant themes in 19th- and 20th-century American art. It showcases 52 paintings and eight sculptures by some of America’s greatest artists.
The History of the Pierpont Inn
a brief history of the Pierpont Inn in Ventura, CA
Welcome to Santa Paula Unified School District
Welcome to Santa Paula Unified School District
The WWII Attack on California...
The Bombardment of Ellwood in 1942, just outside of Santa Barbara, California, set into motion the West Coast Invasion scare and the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in Internment camps. But most people have forgotten the I-17 and Kozo Nishino's shelling of the California coast. This video also talks about a Prisoner of War camp where German soldiers were imprisoned nearby.
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A fast-moving scrub fire threatened orchards, oil fields and homes while displacing thousands of residents in Southern California on Friday, even as diminishing winds helped fire crews tame a rash of wildfires elsewhere across the state.
The latest in a spate of conflagrations that have kept California firefighters on the go for weeks roared to life on Thursday evening near the hilly farm community of Santa Paula, about 70 miles (112.65 km) northwest of Los Angeles.
As the Maria fire raced across nearly 9,000 acres (3,642 hectares) of dry brush and chaparral, firefighters scrambled to protect tens of millions of dollars worth of citrus and avocado crops in harm’s way, as well as nearby oil industry infrastructure.
The blaze also threatened high-voltage power lines in the vicinity, along with radio and communications towers at the top of a large hill called South Mountain, where the flames originated, Ventura County fire officials said.
“There is still cause for caution and concern. We are not out of the woods yet,” county fire chief Mark Lorenzen told an evening news conference. “We still have 24 hours of critical fire weather ahead of us.”
He said an estimated 1,300 firefighters, many from elsewhere in California and the Western United States, were assigned to the blaze.
By sunset, the fire was threatening some 2,700 homes and other structures, with roughly 10,800 people under evacuation orders, Sheriff Bill Auyb told reporters.
No injuries were reported, but at least two structures were destroyed, county spokeswoman Natalie Hernandez told Reuters by phone.
Oil production equipment at stake, belonging to California Resources Corp CRC.N., includes wells, pipelines, storage tanks and pumping plants, Hernandez said, adding there was little vegetation immediately surrounding those facilities.
“The oil fields have good fire clearance, so that works to their favor,” she said.
The overall fire zone also encompasses a lemon and avocado crop valued at between $95 million and $120 million, said Korinne Bell, the county’s chief deputy agricultural commissioner.
Preliminary assessments have found trees scorched and burned around the perimeter of a number of orchards, though the full extent of damage has yet to be determined due to limited access, Bell told Reuters.
She said avocado orchards are more susceptible to fire because they have a higher oil content than citrus and accumulate more “leaf litter” at the base of their trees, making them more flammable.
“There are a lot of avocados, but far more lemons, which is good news because lemons don’t burn as easily as avocados do,” she said.
Crop inspectors also found many trees covered in flame-retardant slurry dropped by firefighting airplane tankers during the day, she said.
The fire erupted just as fierce Santa Ana desert gusts had begun to subside after howling across much of Southern California for two days. But strong, erratic winds were expected to persist through Saturday in many mountainous and foothill areas, including the Santa Paula fire zone.
Elsewhere, subsiding winds helped in gaining control of several fires in the region that had broken out earlier.
Just 30 miles (48.28 km) to the east in Simi Valley, a blaze that raged to the edge of the hilltop Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday was 60% contained on Friday, while containment on a separate fire that had threatened the Getty Center art museum and thousands of homes in west Los Angeles on Monday was listed at 66% contained.
East of Los Angeles, the 200-acre (80-hectare) Hillside fire that burned several homes early on Thursday in the north end of San Bernardino was 70% contained by Friday.
The latest recurrence of seasonal Santa Ana winds coincided with extremely low relative humidity levels and a prolonged lack of rainfall that has left vegetation tinder-dry in the region.
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Santa Barbara California History and Cartography (1877)
Santa Barbara California history and cartography is explored and examined from this vintage map that was originally produced in 1877. In the video we look at historical elements that make this map so great. The map itself is a birdseye perspective map in that we see building architecture, changes in elevation, streets, vegetation and much more.
Check out the Santa Barbara California Map Poster Print: