On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:04:40 -0600, F. George McDuffee
wrote:

If you are in the Texas panhandle area [e.g. Amarillo] you may
want to stop and see this. Next to a typical oil rig of the
1920's oil boom.


If one is in the Bakersfield California area, you may wish to swing
over to my little town, Taft, as it also has a oil museum, under a
fullsized wooden oil derrick (recently built a new one to replace one
taken down in a bad storm a year or two ago)

http://www.westkern-oilmuseum.org/

Ive contibuted some odds and ends to its machine shop(s) as well.

A decent online tour on the website.

Gunner





"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner