Photos by Chris Miller
Veterans of Hermosa’s oil wars, dating back to the 1950s, gathered at the Hermosa Beach Museum last month to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the successful 2015 Stop Oil effort. For the occasion, museum director Mark Shoemaker and museum program director Ryan Basford delivered a history of Hermosa’s oil wars, dating back to the 1930s.
Among the other speakers was Barbara Guild, who led the successful opposition to Shell Oil’s 1958 effort to erect drilling platforms off of Hermosa Beach. Guild was also instrumental in the successful 2015 effort to stop E and B Oil from drilling from shore into Hermosa’s tidelands.
Barbara Ellman also recalled the 2015 Stop Oil effort.
The Drill’s Path: A Timeline of Oil Drilling in Hermosa Beach remains on exhibit at the museum through March 31.
For more information about the Hermosa Museum, and the Hermosa Historical society, visit HermosaHistoricalSocety.org
