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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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he years of its existence, that beingtlie telephone. No railroad connects withthe town, all transportation being doneeither by stage or boat. .All freight, etc.,is sent by boat from San Francisco, thetrip taking three hours in good weather.About three trips a week are made. .\ modern distribution system suppliesthe town and now the large summercolony as well as the all-year-round in-liabitants enjoy the convenience of Pa-cific Service instead of the old coal-oillamps which were used for many years. So this picturesque resort by the sea-shore under the shadow of Mount Tamal-pais bids fair to grow in importance.It is handicapped, at present, by its com-I)arative isolation, for the means of pub-lic transportation is by automobile stagefrom San Rafael or by water from SanFrancisco. But this will he remediedsome dav. Pacific Service Magazine 149 TheTwenty-Second Annual Conventionof the Pacific Coast Gas Association Held this year at Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California By E. C. JONES
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F()IJ,()\V1X(; Ihu cXMinpk- nf llic dIcUtgas associations, it was dfc-idcMlthat tlu F^acific Coast (las Assofialionshould hold its twenty-second annualmeeting outside of Ihe atmosphere of gasworks and the deti-acting noises of agreat city, and get togetiicr in one happyand contended family jjaity in the heau-lifiil Hotel Nirginia, located witliin sinindof the breakers at Long Beach, California.II has been Ihe invariable rule withthese annual gatherings of Ihe associa-tion that the last has alwa\s Iciii ili-dared Ihe best iiieeliiig excr lu-ld. Tliiswas i)arlicularly true of Ihe SnuthernCalifornia meeting, which opened Tms-d:i\ nioining, Septend)er 1511), with Mr.Champ S. Vance of l.os Angeles, piesi-dent of Ihe association, in Ihe chair. Theelements which comhineil In make lliisIhe most successful meeting c\cr hehl in- cluded a laige adcndance of mend)ers,accompanied by their wives and daugh-ters, a long list of vitally interesting pa-pers which brought out aniniate<l discus-sions,

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