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Title
Long Beach and Island White
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued
1975
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
THUMS, a consortium made up of Texaco, Humble Oil, Union Oil, Mobile Oil and Shell Oil companies, built four artificial oil islands in Long Beach in 1965 at an estimated cost of $22 million dollars each to disguise their offshore oil drilling operations. Joseph Linesch, known as a theme park architect, designed towers to act as sound barriers and to provide attractive multi-colored lighting at night. Each island was later named in memory of a fallen astronaut: Island Freeman for Theodore C. Freeman, Island White for Edward H. White II, Island Grissom for Virgil I. Grissom, and Island Chaffee for Roger B. Chaffee. Occidental Petroleum purchased the THUMS consortium in 2000, but 14 years later offloaded their assets into the California Resources Corporation (CRC), whose THUMS Long Beach Company currently oversees the islands.
A beachgoer with an aluminum webbed folding chair looks out towards Island White in Long Beach, November 1975.
Type
image
Format
1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00163671
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b123_f4_s17
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134849
Subject
Beachgoers
Beaches
Folding chairs
Artificial islands
Petroleum industry and trade
Oil well drilling rigs
Offshore oil well drilling
Palms
Long Beach (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Time Period
1971-1980
Source
Hankey, Roy.

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