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
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Visual Materials
Coyote Lake at head of Big Creek; Big Creek [cascade above Powerhouse1 site], Stevenson Creek Falls, Thousand Island Lake; Borel Powerhouse and cottages; Borel interior with the original 5 Pelton Waterwheel unit], Kern Substation, Indian Substation, Newhall Substation; Azusa hydroelectric Plant; Sierra hydroelectric Plant; Mentone hydroelectric Plant; Redondo Steam Plant.
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Big Creek - Early Big Creek [Substations; Big Creek - PH 1 and PH 2 penstock construction, Huntington Lodge & Lake, heavy snowfall, break in PH1 penstock joint, const. Dam #1 & gate tower, Dam 1 spilling, Dam #2 const., Dam #4 const., PH1 const., PH1 interior, PH2 const., PH2 after fire, PH2 interiors (Units & Transformers), unit install PH1, incline RR, railroad locomotives, Big Creek transmission line const.; Magunden Sub.; Kern T/L poles, line and RR wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aquiduct and Powerhouse; PL&P vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa PH interior; Highgrove forebay & Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse (ext. & int.), Mentone PH; Borel Powerhouse]
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Azusa Line; Big Creek construction - Dam 2, towers, Powerhouse 2, Richgrove Patrol Sta.; Borel change to Pelton-Francis horizontal turbines, break in canal, Bodfish Flume, repairs at Schoolhouse Cut, Profanity Flume; San Bernardino "C" Street Sub., Long Beach Steam Plant, Santa Ana River 2; Fillmore Sub.; PL&P trucks & wagons; Huntington Beach Sub.; East Kern Line; Kern Canal, settling basin, Borel Powerhouse; Mentone - siphon, flume break, fish screen, intake; L.A. City Power Dev. Plant 1; Pedley Powerhouse - break in canal; Redondo Steam Plant; Sierra Powerhouse; Stone Castle, Vernon Sub., Santa Paula Sub., Monolith Sub., and Eagle Rock Substation.
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Sierra penstock break, new pipeline, intake house, diversion - powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse and water diversions, original Pelton-Doble turbines, and change over to horizontal Pelton-Francis turbines; various substations; Meter testing; Mentone hydro project; Pedley Hydro project; Casing Head Gasoline plant; Old Redondo Steam Plant construction and facilities; Stone Castle after fire; Ventura Power Co. steam plants, gas plant and substations.
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The Doble waterwheel unit at Mill Creek #3 Hydro Plant. The unit was made in San Francisco.
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Borel Hydro Plant - Looking down penstocks to the powerhouse. Kern River Power Company (Pacific Light & Power Company).
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