{"id":543,"date":"2011-06-15T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2023-01-02T08:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:25:14","slug":"lighting-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Lighting the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We are daily growing more and more in need of street lights. We should like very much to see San Diego lighted by electricity, and we believe that the public are quite willing to pay any reasonable expense of that system. But, light of some kind we must have, and very soon . . . <\/em>&#8211;San Diego Union, July 1, 1885.<\/p>\n<p>The solution, San Diegans decided, was the &#8220;Arc Lamp,&#8221; clusters of arcing electricity in lamps arranged atop 125-foot steel towers that cast a &#8220;twilight glow&#8221; over downtown streets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Lighting-the-City1.pdf\" rel=\"\">Lighting the City<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_545\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Up_5thSt_1887.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" data-attachment-id=\"545\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=545\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Up_5thSt_1887.jpg?fit=2621%2C1529\" data-orig-size=\"2621,1529\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Up_5thSt_1887\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Looking north on Fifth Street, circa 1887.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Up_5thSt_1887.jpg?fit=1024%2C597\" class=\"size-large wp-image-545 \" title=\"Up_5thSt_1887\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Up_5thSt_1887.jpg?resize=524%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Up_5thSt_1887.jpg?resize=1024%2C597 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Up_5thSt_1887.jpg?resize=300%2C175 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Up_5thSt_1887.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking north on Fifth Street, circa 1887.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D543&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are daily growing more and more in need of street lights. We should like very much to see San Diego lighted by electricity, and we believe that the public are quite willing to pay any reasonable expense of that system. But, light of some kind we must have, and very soon . . . 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