Huntington Beach is a lovely ocean-side community just south of Long Beach but back in the 1930s it was dotted with oil wells pulling from the large reserves that lay underground. It can’t have been a very pretty landscape so it’s nice to see that someone decided to pretty things up by turning one of them into a Christmas tree. It kind of reminds me of the Wi-Fi towers we now see all over the place disguised as trees. I wonder if the decorations for this one came down after the 1939 holiday season was over. I found this gem on the always interesting 1939 Southern California blog