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Fascinating pictorial map, showing the power lines in the Los Angeles Basin, extending east to the San Bernardino Mountains, south to San Juan Capistrano and Laguna, west to Santa Barbara and North to show the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley and the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The map illustrates the power plants and primary power lines in Southern California.
Two larger vignettes illustrate the Big Creek Power Plants and the Long Beach Steam Plant.
The origins of the company lie with the grand scheme of Henry E. Huntington and hydraulic engineer John S. Eastwood, developed around 1908, for a vast complex of reservoirs to be constructed in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of central California. Huntington founded Pacific Light and Power, one of the roughly two dozen companies he controlled at the time, to execute what would eventually become one of the largest hydropower systems in the United States, the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project. Pacific Light and Power was one of the predecessor companies to SCE, along with Edison Electric, Mt. Whitney Power & Electric Co., California Electric Power Co., and others.
