Summary: When you take the Ojai exit off the 101 Freeway in Ventura, California, you head back to a time when the oil industry was king. You can still see working oil pumps on the mountainsides, even the remains of an old refinery. But what you won’t see is the community of Foster Park, a small town developed in the 1920s and ‘30s where many oil workers once lived, in the shadow of the actual Foster Park that was established alongside the Ventura River in 1908. The town of Foster Park was demolished when the Ojai Freeway came in during the 1960s, but many still remember it.
