Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Dave Redinger's first job after graduation was on a survey trip to Alaska, mapping locations for coal fields and other large mineral deposits. The location of this camp is not known, but it illustrates the primitive conditions endured on this job.
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Dee and Dave Redinger look at the plaque commemorating the naming of the reservoir behind Dam #7, "Redinger Lake".
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Dave Redinger sits in front of Powerhouse #1 just days before his retirement in 1947.
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This single-circuit transmission tower stands on a hillside overlooking Dam #7 and Redinger Lake in the background. Towers of this design were pioneered in 1913 for the original Big Creek development. Today, 220kV transmission lines on several different rights-of-way feed Big Creek power into the Edison system.
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A night photo of Big Creek #1 Hydro Plant. This is the cover photo for "The Story of Big Creek" by David Redinger. The caption reads: In this late evening view, energy-efficient sodium-vapor lights inside Big Creek Power House #1 cast a warm glow over the waters of the forebay for Power House #2 downstream.
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The survey crews who laid out the initial development at Big Creek had to endure the most primitive living conditions. An unidentified crew of surveyor, rodman and axeman poses for a Sunday portrait near Halleck Creek, below Powerhouse No. 2. Dave Redinger lived in camps like this during the summer of 1914.
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