* * * * * The 1950's and early ‘60's were good to my father. He started his own company – MAC Drilling – and became a speculator and promoter selling interests in oil leases. You are no doubt familiar with the successful TV series “Beverly Hills, 90210 ,” dear reader; the teenaged-angst soap opera at the fictitious “West Beverly Hills High School.” Only, did you know at the real Beverly Hills High School there’s a soundproofed, all electric oil well on that property? Originally it was a drab grey – but some kids in a cancer ward dressed it up. It was newly developed and drilled by my father in 1956, and through ...