California's Dirty Secret: Exploring the Lakeview Gusher, Biggest Accidental Oil Spill in History
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- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #810
Date of adventure: 6/13/24
Checking out the site of the biggest land-based oil spill in history, which you've probably never heard of -- in the middle of nowhere, outside Bakersfield!
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Hi Wonderhussy, this is Mark and I lived and grew up in Bakersfield. I’m the one who sent you sunglasses from the Corn Palace. I worked 10 years in the oil patch and you are right outside of the town or Maricopa. The oil company you pointed to at the beginning of the video was Berry Holding Oil Company when I worked out there. Next time you are in Bakersfield, I suggest you take the time and go to the Kern County Museum located on No. Chester. Years ago Chevron built a multi million dollar oil exhibit at the museum and even tho I worked in the oilfields for years, I learned a lot more going through the exhibit. Oil derricks were the permanent wooden structures built over every hole drilled and the big units going up and down are pumping units or producers. You are also very close to the Purina and Johnny Cat kitty litter factories. My understanding is that it one of the best places in the country to make kitty litter. Great video as usual
You and wondering jeepsy should of done a video together since she was in the area of San Francisco call it Sarah's in San fran
Sarah doesn't read any of her comments. Sorry guys.
@@mal1465 sad she doesn’t read comments. I would volunteer to take her to the Museum. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the early years of Bakersfield and its history.
they call them pump jacks too right?
@@tysmith_6844 Yes and oil field guys use terms like horsehead or donkeyhead pump. Petroleum Engineers called them Beam pumps or walking beam pumps.
Oil is also extremely hot
When it comes out of the
Ground. You don’t want to
Be near it when it goes
Off!! Great story Sarah😎
And just when you think Wonderhussy has made every kind of abandoned desert video, we get the pimple popping gusher saga!
Interesting story told like only Sarah can.
In 1909, gasoline was about 4.5 cents per gallon, and was sold in glass jars.Most of the oil was used for lubrication at that time, as there were few cars as yet.
Our poor Earth is doomed.
Nope most of the oil was refined to lamp oil also known as petroleum as electric lamps where not a thing yet. Gasoline was a by product which they had no use for as is was way to flammable.
You have become an addiction....a very nice one...I look forward to Wednesdays...you make an old man smile....Good Job
There are videos still on TH-cam with Wonderhussy completely nude, showing everything. Tasty !
Friday too.
I hear you. Wife and I look forward to her weekly videos! She is great therapy for a messed up world! Love her take on things!❤❤
Agree totally with that 1st line, jeff. Man can she talk, but it's all good, as it seems she does a lot of pre trip research.
Lived in Cali and went to school there till I was 16, never heard about this incident once! Thanks for the history lesson. 8:55
A barrel as a measurement is 42 gallons. 55 gallons is a commercial drum.
I was going to Google it. I thought it was less that the drums we think of but didn't know how much. Thank you for clarifying that for us.
gotta leave room for expansion LOL thus the 42 to 45 gal measurement put into a 55 gal drum if you lucky and they don't put less in to make more money LOL
I learn new things from you every time I watch you videos
The horsey-looking things that go up and down are referred to as "pumping units" . Blow out preventers are known as "BOPs" and then there's "sucker rod", "polish rod" and "pump jacks" all related to pumping oil. There's an old pump jack out in the middle of nowhere in Oklahoma that's been in operation since 1959! It looks like it should have fallen apart fifty years ago, but it keeps going!
In Alberta Canada we call the horsey looking things "pump jacks"
In Albion, Wt20, they're known as "nodding donkeys".
Hey Sarah - I just wanted to inform you that now that you are no longer a Las Vegan, and are now officially a T-Town girl, you cannot (by law) call it “hot” or complain about the “heat” until the temperature officially exceeds 115 degrees. Just thought you might want to know about that. Stay cool! 😎
@iTeI3gram_.WonderhussyOfficial It’s obvious you are not Wonderhussy. My question is - do you attempt to impersonate girls in real life too? Yeah….I’ll bet you do! LOL 🤣
Being from Texas I found this video very entertaining. Its a pumpjack. The weird thing that goes up and down that looks like a rocking horse or grass hopper. Now days they take many precautions and drilling for oil is not the hazard some may want you to believe it is.
As a kid in California, I remember guys sneaking out and painting faces on them. The oil men must have liked them because very few were painted over.
My High School Yearbook was Black Gold, and our colors were Black and Gold! Ventura was quite the oil town and they still have the oil rigs out in the Santa Barbara Channel, nearby.
I read somewhere that the oil from the Channel is pipelined to west Texas. Too bad it doesn't go to the refineries in El Segundo.
Only 97 try it when it’s 115 😊
I remember seeing them all around here in Southern California back in the 70’s and some were set up to look like big grasshoppers with antennas and painted on eyes.
At pico & lacienega.
I remember the oilfields near Long Beach and LAX. I liked the painted one that looked like bugs.
You are a great "Story Teller" I always enjoy, Thank you.
Thanks for unknown California history. You are one great reporter. Keep up the good work.
Wow and yikes and wow really enjoyed this video on 76 native California and never heard of that oil spill. Thank you darling for all that information you're such an educational teacher. And a Explorer
The Derricks are the tall towers. They facilitate the actual drilling process. The moving pumps are called pumpjacks, among other names.
Jed Clampett would be so envious. 😁
Oil is all over the place in Ventura - Santa Barbara - Kern county . Some Farms ranches pump oil and if you don't pump it out some times it just seeps out by its self . Oil leaks out the side of the mountain on HWY 150 smells like rotten eggs . The road is closed from last years storms but they are working on it .
I live in Pismo and it stinks here because of Price Cyn road drove by it an hour ago! It's sickening
Crunchy peanut butter on warm toast, black coffee and Wonderhussey video.
Sounds perfect to me! 😊
I'm right there with you! Why anyone would want creamy is beyond me! Unfortunately, my family likes the creamy, go figure! Same with coffee, I like it black, but the wife likes creamer, and a ton of sugar! I can't win! 😁👍✌🗽
Great episode. Glad you pointed out that the oil was in fact naturally occurring. We sometimes lose sight of that fact when it comes to spills.
@WonderhussyAdventuresza ok
The La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles the oil comes right to the surface even in small patches coming up through the grass
@skyh LA Brea is the most famous. There are several tar pits in the California oil country. There was an old mission that had a tar pit near it. The stuff was prized for roofing, and the mission did a bustling business in it.
Used to ride pumping units when I was a kid. There called pumping units. ❤ wonderhussy.
"pump jack" is another popular name.
😅
Oil was first discovered in Pennsylvania 1859, which brought an end to the commercial whaling industry. Imagine that.
Yup... and if you think oil rigging is a dirty, disgusting job, harvesting whale oil has got to be the worst job ever. Read about how they got "sperm oil" out of the heads of whales. Yuck!
cool fun fact
Unless you're Japanese or Norwegian
Titusville, Pa to be exact
In the 1960s, I learned oil was first drilled in a ghost town named Pithole, PA., which is near Titusville. Colonel Drake is given credit for drilling it.
Oils well that ends well Lol
Lol
Used to work electrical there in the late 80s and those pipes are for steam injection. Worked at the Exxon Formax.
Great history lesson on that area.
The Steampunk devices you mentioned are called pumpjacks. They're everywhere down south where I'm from. Enjoy seeing your videos! Hydrate!!!!
FYI: Gas was .25 cents a gallon in the 1950's. AND, gas stations gave away S & H Green Stamps, or pieces of tea sets, or 6-pack soda, or many other items that were used to attract customers.
Great episode,wonderhussy you break 💔 my heart I live thirty five minutes away and my parents were from close to where the spill was, could have shared more.👍🇺🇸
Wow! Your narrative was fantastic. You're a natural at story telling and entertaining. Great work!
When you have the time take a look at the 2007 movie, "There Will Be blood" which is tale oil and corruption in California derived from an Upton Sinclair novel "Oil".
I didn't know that film was based on Sinclair. Will watch, thanks.
Hey sweetie! The fact all that oil was spilled with out killing the planet should make some tree huggers think 🤔
Well done history lesson as always! ❤
I always enjoy your posts and commentary Wonderhussy. Thank you!
Hey Wonderhussy - As someone who worked in the oilfields west of Bakersfield for about 2 years, we called those mechanical thingys "above-ground pumping units." In Texas, they call 'em "pumpjacks." They stuck the oil out of the ground and into storage tanks. Hope you enjoyed our heat!
I grew up and lived in Bakersfield for many years myself. The devices you are pointing out at the start of the video are not derricks, they are pumping units (I made my living as a software engineer supporting oil exploration and production for...a long time). The pumping unit is connected to a pump far underground by a stack of rods (you can see the rod attached to the head of the unit going up and down) just like any other old fashioned pump: the rod goes up and down and the oil pumps up and out. Derricks were the frameworks (originally wood, later steel) erected over the site of a well for supporting the drilling equipment. They could be left in place or dismantled after drilling was complete. Later the companies figured out it was simpler and cheaper to use a portable drilling rig that they could move from location to location and not have to build or dismantle anything. You still see old ones from time to time that were left in place back in the day. Oil exploration and production in Kern County and the Bakersfield area goes back well over 100 years. Thanks for all the videos over time; I haven't watched one for a while, then when TH-cam showed me the Lakeview Gusher and it was your video, I had to watch. I learned about the Gusher back in junior high in a local history class.
Loving your show is easy because you make it very simple!
Union Oil's first oil wells south of Orcutt, CA, gushed for three years before getting pumps. Single 12" diameter cylinder diesel fired once every three minutes on filtered crude oil, huge flywheel ran pump between unmuffeled exhaust explosions.
I love your channel, I have learned soo much from you. Thank you for all the information you include in your videos. 😊
Somehow you make the most mundane subjects ultra-fascinating. Great video!
Your videos are my comfort watches. On a day when I'm not feeling well and laying up in bed, watching your adventures is so comforting and takes my mind off feeling like crap. I think me and you are the only people on earth who still say GAAAAAWLEEE! 😂 Thank you Wonderhussy!😊
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Great video Sarah you are an AWESOME person Thank you for taking us along
Stay COLD in your travels🥶
The first drilled oil well was at Oil City, PA near Titusville, PA about fifteen years before Spindletop.
Fabulous as always!once again demonstrating your incredible story telling style presentation! ❤👍
This was more interesting than just another hot spring . Thank you for pursuing everything & anything odd , unusual , different or strange. There's a finite number of hot springs but you'll never run out of content . Happy trails .
Another interesting video detailing a nearby historical event.
Thanks Wonderhussy!
Thank you Wonderhussy, your vids are educational as well as adventurous!
The seesaw deally is an oil pump jack.
They just don't Stop ! Arms Legs Gone 😮
I drive thru this area often for work, I also am a huge Jimmy / James Dean fan! Isn't it strange that Jimmy became a huge star after only 3 films ? And in GIANT he became a oil baron mogul and he died literally a few miles from this gusher! In fact he had to drive by here just minutes before he died😢
Fascinating information Sarah. Thanks
Thanks for another fascinating video. I’d never heard of this before, and I can’t wrap my mind around the amount of oil spilled or the time it went on. Amazing!
At the time I am watching this video, oil is going for $82.40 a barrel.
Historically, Crude Oil reached an all time high of 147.27 in July of 2008... Back then gas was cheaper then now. Not sure who is shafting us!
@@patrickvanden8322you don’t? It’s the communist I. The Oval Office
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I just love Wonderhussy Wednesdays and Fridays 🥰 Nothing weird about you sweets!!! 😉 I love all these places you visit and share with us--all right up my alley too as the old saying goes. Californian here too who never heard of this story before, although I've been to Bakersfield many times over the years. I would like to visit this site myself one day. Out here in California and the West in general, you will never run out of content for your videos. Thanks again Sarah and keep 'em coming! Please stay safe as you travel and by all means, have fun! 🤗♥️
Howdy Sarah! You stay safe ok. Thanks for taking us along! 😉
Can relate to your comment about getting your phone heated up too much. Got myself one of those phone mounts that clips directly onto the A/C vent on my dash. It works wonders getting the phone to cool down.
I worked in those oilfields. We called the horse looking things pumping units, aka iron trees. They're about the only shade.
Thank You WonderHussy ♥
Also, thank you for questioning misinformation. There are hundreds of internet images of pump jacks labeled as derricks. An oil Derrick is the tall structure used to drill the original well to the underground reservoir of oil.. Once the oil is reached, a Pump Jack ( the dinosaur structure ) is installed to bring the oil to the surface.
I lived near Santa Barbara long ago, and tar balls from off shore oil reservoirs would occasionally wash ashore. Old timers told me that prior to the installation of the off shore oil fields, much more 'natural' oil / tar balls washed up along the shore.
Another great historical video. Never heard of this before. Great find WH.😊
The pumping units are also called "pump jacks". That's how I know them as. As a kid in SoCal, I saw those pumps and thought they resembled praying mantises.
I Worked In Those Oil Fields In 78 79 .......
GOOGLE officially says ( not sure ) that a "barrel" of oil is 42 gallons.
Hey wonderhussy great video I love exploring places like that that's a great piece of California history your biggest TH-cam fan Randy from Kentucky.
It’s 118 in Vegas today
Bake baby, bake.
Black gold, Texas tea. In this case cali tea
You are a 100% desert Queen!
Coors Banquet Beer can. 😂
Fantastic video as usual. 👍❤️👍
You make all things interesting. 😊
Hi Sarah. I was just watching your vid on the Shingles on your backside. I can help you prevent it from happening again!!! The skin has its own immune system that is apart from all of the other immune systems in the body. When someone develops a skin infection (of any kind), it is a broken enzyme chain that is almost always responsible!!! 99% of the time it is the Amino Acid---L Lysine link in that Enzyme chain that is broken. Go to the Pharmacy, and in the OTC section, get a couple of bottles of L-Lysine. Take 4 pills in the morning, and 4 pills in the evening until the Shingles rash disappears. Then as a daily supplement, take 2 in the morning, and 2 in the evening, and the Shingles should stay away for good. The reason Shingles got you right at this spot is most likely because of the rubbing right there in the first place. The Lysine should do the trick---STAY SAFE OUT THERE!!! Don't run yourself down!!! You seem to me to be a perfectly wonderful person to me!!!
Hi, I concur that L lysine is wonderful for skin issues.
I don't know if WH reads comments. She has mentioned before that she doesn't because of negatively. If you find her email you'll be able to share.
Carry on ❤
I got the vaccine for shingles and insurance paid for it. No pills for me!
Great video. Another place/incident I've never heard of before.
I remember early 60s gas was 16.9 cents a gallon.
Very cool. Never heard of the gusher before. Thank you!
Cerro Gordo is cool this time of year. When are you going to spend time at your mother's place in northern CA?
"TOP OF YOUR GAME". good job as always thank you stay safe ALL
Husband speaking age 81 1/2. My mother told me about her and a neighbor driving around in a model T, gas was 10 cents a gallon. This had to be about 1938 - 1940. 1963 and I am on the way to Air Force basic tng. Stop over at LAX, 3 other guys and I grab a cab, (about 9pm at night) we ask the driver to show us around. We have the driver about $50. From all 4 of us. , we had about 90 minutes until our flight to Texas. I saw my first oil derrick up close. Great story Sarah. ❤
#2. Yuck, age 7, 1950 and Ihad a boil on the bottom of my foot. My dad broke it, thought I was going to die. Dad put something called Denver mudd on it to draw out any infection.
Someone needs to tell nomadic fanatic this is how you make a great video by going places that are interesting love all your videos
This is a great video, as usual, Sarah. I learn more US history from you than I probably got from my teachers in school.
Love the oil blubbing effects. You're tough, just enough for the wild places
THANK YOU SARAH AND ANOTHER GREAT,FASCINATING VIDEO,,SAFE TRAVELS..
Good research. If history was ever lost in this country, your the one that will resurrect it. Safe travels this summer.
California...huge and mysterious.
Commyfornia
I think the Deepwater Horizon gusher in the bottom Gulf of Mexico that polluted everything and created by Halliburton was bigger or more destructive than this.
Deepwater was close to 5 million barrels of oil also….. i guess its a tie… bravo humanity.
Deepwater Horizon spilled more barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico
Thanks for sharing another fun adventure and history lesson your the best stay safe and hydrated 🎉
@UCqXnen9vGDtyc9GPQOvRh2g thank you for the response love the content you rock
Always great to see you and see your show! Yipes! Mother Gusher! If'n y'all wanna see a great movie where the Iraqi oil wells are depicted burning - and it's a STUNNER - Watch 'Jar Head'!
What an interesting site. That old fencing has survived for a very long time.
Since you asked to learn more about oil. I can suggest 3 movies that explain the oil drilling process fairly well. First is War of the Wildcats also known as In Old Oklahoma (1943) with John Wayne. Second is Tulsa (1949) with Susan Hayward. Third is Hellfighters (1968) with John Wayne
She made it sooo exciting!
97 degrees is nothing for Death Valley. A day or so ago it was like 131. I want to hear how you survived that? 😰
@@richardb7892 we are not Death Valley
Refineries measure a barrel of oil at 42 gallons. Not the 55 as many say.
Yay, Wonderhussy! We all love you! Yes, we love our deserts and oil fields ! You are a courageous woman. God bless you! (Love you)
Oil pumpjacks are large pieces of machinery that extract oil from the ground on a consistent basis. Also known as nodding donkeys or oil horses, they are critical to fossil fuel extraction.Feb
2:17 The sign states 90,000 barrels a day at 42 gallons a barrel which equals 3,780,000 gallons pouring onto the desert floor. Then we get to the older marker 11:04 that states 18,000 barrels a day which equates to 756,000 gallons. That's quite a discrepancy, I wonder which is correct? I would put my money on the older marker as it seems more plausible, but still impressive! 👍✌🗽
Beautiful pump jack( the large metal rocking horse)
I'll bet you're near Taft California thanks
Yeah she's by Maricopa and that oil facility was Aera
Yeah, interesting area. I love the Carrizo Plain too.
No one know where taft is lol
@@petewells5593 I think you'd be surprised how many folks know where Taft is.
@@user-tn5xq6fe7x only us ratchet souls in kern co
While you are in the oil country, you should do a bit on Merle Haggard.
"Donkey" is a term for the reciprocating wellhead pumps. (Drive SR 198 W of Coalinga and you can find them painted as a variety of other creatures as well)
"Tipping Bird" is another colloquial term
Coalinga! No way, I passed thru there when I was 18 enroute to Tiajuana Mexico.
Big TY to "Wanda's world of beauty", great folks put me up, was traveling from Canada.
I love that too Sarah, I like that history, man -/that is great😊!
Thanx for this one !!! i grew up in Taft on Wood Street
I always wanted to be first to comment. 🙂Thank you Wonderhussy for the great entertainment.
One of the early romantic westerns featured this "gusher" gosh she sure messed up her fancy hair...
Neat video...great history scraps you blend into a full adventure
Miss Wonderhussy, amazing info on that their oil. Too bad they couldn't save all the oil. Thank you for sharing and God Bless you and your family. Stay safe and happy traveling. 🥰💖👍👍👍👍👍(🌹🐞🦂🌵)
They probably set the 9 million barrel mess afire, to get rid of it.