Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. At the Pasadena Lite Plant a master clock controls all of the electric clocks in the city. Two gauges and a clock are positioned on top of each other in a wooden frame. Photograph appears with the article, "Era of Seconds Comes with Electric Timing," Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep 1935: A1. Handwritten on negative: Clock in Pasadena lite Plant 8-30-35 Text from negative sleeve: 1967 - Carl W. Koiner Walter H Schahfer + Pasadena Lite Plant 8-31-35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Here are the top-sergeants in the Pasadena clock army. Everyone is out of step but us.
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