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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Service Magazine The exterior has been treated in mannerquite similar to Station K, wliich hasalready been described in Pacific Serv-ice Magazine. The walls, which are with-out openings other than the front andrear entrance doors, are finished in plas-ter, the moulded members having asmooth trowelled surface, in contrastwith the main body, which was effectedby the scraping method which producesan appearance rough in texture and sim-ilar to stone. The plaster is a light buff,similar to limestone, and a surface is pro- light from above, and the display is in-tensified by submerged electric lightswhich illuminate the lower portions ofthe bowls and lower pool. The attentionof our readers is called to the accom-panying illustration. The main entrance doors on LexingtonAvenue are seven and one-quarter inchesthick, built with an air-cushion in thecenter and deadening felt between theseparate layers of wood. The doors arevery large and heavy and are hung byspecial steel hinges to steel jambs.
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The system of flood-lighting adopted by Pacific Service serves to illuminate the substations by night with striking effect. duced which is exceedingly pleasing tothe eye and not at all glaring. The two street elevations are floodlighted from six cement posts near thecurb line. An exterior feature of spec-tacular attractiveness is a fountain, builtout from the Nineteenth Street wall ofthe building, which is part of the sta-tions transformer-cooling system. Thisfountain feature is specially illuminatedby a spot light, while the lattice worksurrounding it receives light from theelectroliers; the fountain bowls andwater are played upon by a second spot- The interior of the building is accord-ing to the most modern ideas of arrange-ment. A metal lath and plaster wall wasput in several inches from the exteriorwalls of the building to provide an air-cushion and, also, space for conduits andpipes to be installed. New Station Ereceives power at 11,000 volts, 3-phase,from Station A, or from the

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