SUNDAYPictures that fed the travel bugAs America’s...
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Pictures that fed the travel bug
As America’s burgeoning infrastructure and commercial aircraft opened the West to the masses in the 1920s, oil companies and airlines lured would-be travelers with advertisements filled with enticing photography of the new travel landscape. The photographs would serve to document the orgins origins of the nation’s car culture and transportation explosion. California Oil Museum has assembled 25 of the Union Oil photographs for its new exhibition, “By Land and By Air: Photographs of 1920s Travel in the West,” including Amelia Earhart overseeing the refueling of her monoplane and auto racer Barney Oldfield filling up his Marmon race car in Los Angeles for 21 1/2 cents per gallon.
“By Land and By Air: Photographs of 1920s Travel in the West,” California Oil Museum, 1001 E. Main St., Santa Paula. Opening reception: Sunday, 1 to 3 p.m. (805) 933-0076.
* Hours: Wed.-Sun., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.$4, $3 seniors, $1 children. Ends March 20.
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