A center tower was used for repairs and maintenance on the overhead lines. It operated for almost 50 years until 1950. The museum displays photographs of early Seal Beach, sea shells and Indian artifacts collected locally. It also has reference library of local history with detailed regional maps. Electric Avenue near Main St., next to Mary Wilson Library.
Seal Beach offers two strikingly different experiences.
The quaint beach town to the west of Coast Highway is of greatest interest to tourists. East is tract housing, the gated Leisure World retirment community, shopping, freeways and high-tech space and defense facilities, such as Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station and Boeing. A popular restaurant on Seal Beach Boulevard near the San Diego Freeway is featured on 94.7 FM, KTWV, every Sunday. Spaghettini's offers a Sunday brunch with prizes given away by the radio announcer. While that restaurant is known throughout Los Angeles for its weekly radio coverage, a Main Street restaurant was featured on national television when record hitting baseball player Mark McGwire frequented the place and wore one of the ball caps from The Abbey during the season that he set a world record.