Phillips 66 San Francisco Refinery

The towers of Rodeo’s oil refinery appear on the cover of Dookie. It also inspired the 21st Century Breakdown lyric ‘my town is blind from refinery sun,’ in reference to the polluted air Billie Joe grew up with.

‘We came from such a highly polluted area in Rodeo, California. It’s a refinery town and we ended up getting sent home from school because kids were having headaches and nobody could understand why, when of course, 200 yards away from the elementary school I went to was the biggest refinery in America.’ — Billie Joe Armstrong, 2005