Before every truck had GPS, before every safety meeting needed a safety meeting, and before the California oil patch became a paperwork endurance event, there was Golden State Drilling.
Founded in Bakersfield in 1977, GSD was one of those names that oilfield hands just knew. If you worked rigs in California, you probably knew somebody who pulled slips, mixed mud, hauled iron, or got yelled at under that red oval. For a lot of roughnecks, Golden State Drilling was the original FFTP company — the kind of place where the coffee was bad, the work was hard, the jokes were worse, and somehow everyone still showed up before daylight.
• 100% airlume combed ring-spun cotton
• Heather colors are 52% combed and ring-spun cotton, 48% polyester
• Athletic Heather and Black Heather are 90% combed and ring-spun cotton, 10% polyester
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz./yd.² (142.4 g/m²)
• 32 singles
• Regular fit
• Side-seamed construction
• Crew neck
• Cover-stitched collar
• 2″ (5 cm) ribbed cuffs
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Golden State Drilling Long Sleeve Shirt – Lost Bakersfield Tribute
$40.00
Golden State Drilling made it 47 years in the California oilfield, which is basically 300 years in normal business time. They survived booms, busts, Kern County summers, mud checks, casing jobs, and more regulatory “fun” than any sane person should have to read. They may be gone, but the stories are still out there — mostly true, partly exaggerated, and absolutely not safe for the morning safety meeting.
Part of the Lost Bakersfield collection, this shirt is for the hands who remember, the kids who heard the stories, and anyone who knows that “we’ll be rigged down by noon” is one of the oldest lies in the patch.
This product is made especially for you as soon as you order it, which means it does not come sliding off a warehouse shelf covered in dust like a forgotten box of casing slips.
Making products on demand helps reduce overproduction, waste, and all the other dumb stuff that happens when people guess wrong — kind of like ordering mud before anyone checks the hole.
So, yes, it may take a little longer to get to you. Consider it oilfield training: hurry up, wait, complain about it, then act like you knew that was the plan all along.
Thanks for making a thoughtful purchasing decision and helping us keep the rig count low on unnecessary inventory.
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