Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1903, 1896, 1894, 1893, 1891, 1890s
pp. 20, 21 [Photo captions: "A mistake somehow was made here. The locomotive, derailed, went onto the grounds of the Arcadia Hotel, about 1890. On the back is printed: "Pacific Photograph Gallery at the Arcadia Pavilion, is the place to go for all kinds of fine photographs. Tintypes in bathing costumes a specialty. H.F. Riles, Artist."
" . . . August 1, 1891. . . the Southern Pacific began an oceanographic survey just west of Santa Monica Canyon . . .
"Collis P. Huntington, at the helm of the railroad . . . By 1892 construction of the Long Wharf was well underway . . .
" . . . [briefly] the Long Wharf actually was the port of Los Angeles after its completion in 1893.
". . . Santa Monica had begun to accept its manifest destiny, that of a pleasant seaside residential community, and to make the most of it."
"Meanwhile progress was being recorded on the physical front, but usually over considerable opposition. For example, an election was held March 21, 1893, to vote on a proposed sewer bond issue of $40,000. The vote was negative after a heated campaign, 140 [against], 84, [for].
"Some progress was recorded, however, when J.J. Davis won a franchise, at a cost to him of $25 per year, to install an electric generating plant. On September 10, [1893], no less than 12 street lights were turned on. The generators were on the beach on the northwest side of what is now the Municipal Pier."
[Photo captions: "The one and only Santa Monica public school and its pupils, September, 1894; President McKinley was welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd when he spoke at the Soldiers Home. Most of the veterans in the photo saw service in the Civil War."]
"By 1895 . . . sewer bonds . . . were approved by an overwhelming majority. The system, however, was not built immediately, the trustees encountering much trouble in gaining rights of way. Not until 1899 was the contract let for the outfall, which was near Pier Avenue.
"Unfortunately, this was destroyed by a storm, and many problems ensued, so that the outfall ultimately was located under the present site of the Municipal Pier, at the foot of Colorado Avenue. This was the case from 1909 until the city of Santa Monica joined the city of Los Angeles in funding the Hyperion plant, now in use [1974].
pp. 20, 21 [Photo caption: "Here the members of the first graduating class of Santa Monica High School, correctly and decorously attired, gather on the beach near the foot of what is now Colorado Avenue. Six men; seven women."]
"Street car service also supplanted the steam trains which had made four round trips daily between Santa Monica and Los Angeles. Moses H. Sherman and E.P. Clark built the first electric line into Santa Monica was provided by both Pacific Electric (the big red cars) and the Los Angeles Pacific.
pp. 8, 9 [Photos and Captions: First Electric Train in Santa Monica, April 1, 1896"]
pp. 18, 19 [Photo caption: 1898 photo of the small sized Third Street Car]
"For the next twelve 12 years from 1891 to 1903] the Rindge family divided their time between Malibu and Santa Monica, but it was in the 20 mile Malibu strip extending northwest from Las Flores Canyon, that the Rindges wrote much history."