Pacific Service Magazine. by (PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY) - 1916-17

San Francisco: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 1916-17. A complete year; May of 1916 to June of 1917, 12 issues, Octavos. Contiguously numbered from p.1 to p. 466, plus some roman numeral pages in each issue for ads. An abundance of maps, charts and photographs illustrations. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering. All issues with their colorful wrappers bound in. An excellent little gathering.There cab be no progress without electricity so these magazines chart, in a very realistic manner, the growth of the state of California. The very fist article is a history of the union Iron Works of San Francisco (with a full page illustration of the foundry) but most of the articles are more area specific. Such articles as - ; Modernizing the San Jose Gas Works; An old-Established California Industry-the Judson Manufacturing Company; The San Francisco Dairy Company; Raising Lake Spaulding Dam; Our Pit River Project; The Rebuilding of he Sonoma County Gas Properties; Pacific Service at the Oakland Kinema Theatrte, etc. . Toward the latter issues WWI starts making its appearance in the plea for war bonds.