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Watching contests at a Growlers Club picnic

Black flood happened on July 23, 1913.

Hose and reel fire. These men fought fires without any horse drawn equipment. Top row, L-R: Clarence Hill, Frank Hummel, Chris Jacobsen, George Hughes, John Elrod, Bert Kinney (asst. chief), Ad Fearon, Joe Lacey (chief). Second row: Al Landers,…

Tidwater Oil Company oilfield hoist.

Vanderlip's Ford car and Fordson tractor

Employees of Associated Oil Co. posing on their company truck at back of warehouse.

Coalinga's train station

Local field office of Tidewater Oil.

First school in Coalinga oil field. Located on Confidence Oil Company lease near West Side discovery well, Confidence No. 2, in fall of 1900. Schoolhouse, an abandoned homesteader's cabin moved there for the purpose of being a school. Teacher was…

Tay Pike Company became Republic Well Supply Co. This was a ten-foot store front of Tay Pike Co. in Coalinga, California. It gave little evidence of the stature the company would achieve half a century later. Sales of P. M. Pike's Republic Supply…