San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Photo Place.....Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Oceano 
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THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD STATION
Oceano

History and Description:

The Southern Pacific Railroad station at Oceano was built about 1896 to serve
the areas including Pismo Beach, Grover City, Arroyo Grande, and Oceana.
Designed by the railroad, the two-story wood frame building contained the
agent's residence upstairs, a waiting room, ticket and telegraph, and a baggage
and freight room downstairs.

Until the 1940's the building was kept busy with passenger and freight traffic
requiring the staffing of many.

The design of the building is clean and relatively free of gingerbread detail
that was prevalent on many of the buildings at that time.  There are simple
ornamental configurations cut into the ends of some rafters and supports.  The
exterior is horizontally placed siding interrupted only by panelled doors or
windows.  The shake roof appears to be the original and is still serviceable.
Structurally sound, the building has some function even now.

The agent's residence has not been occupied since 1949 and is now boarded shut.
 The waiting room, once filled with travelers, now occasionally houses a track
repair crew.  The agent's office still functions with only one-sixth the
employees.  The primary concern of the agent is to schedule and process the few
refer cars of produce that leave periodically during the harvest seasons.  Today
the freight house is leased to an adjacent produce company for storage of boxes.

It is felt that the old station has outlived its usefulness, and will be torn
down soon.  It sits today with peeling paint, broken windows, and trash all around.

There are no surviving records concerning the construction of the station as the
Oceano City Hall and records were destroyed by fire several years ago.

Sources:
Mr. R. O. Taylor, Station Agent


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Discovering San Luis Obispo County
by
Carleton M. Winslow


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