avila beach was the entrance to and from that town when people would come by the sea. the importance of the town of avila beach stems from the 1870's, when a lot of the piers were constructed. the hartford peer is still open today. it allowed steamships from san francisco, los angeles, anywhere in the world to come into our harbor. they could bring people, supplies. a good example of that type of commerce is that the early missions here would sell tallow and hides from cattle. you had small sailing ships coming from boston. they would pick up those hides and bring them back to boston and make shoes out of it. you have people in boston wearing shoes made from leather that came from the central coast. there was a huge connection between our tiny town and a wider national audience. before that, a lot of oil exportation coming from our town from the center marino oil fields. all that oil was exported through our town. they felt the need to have a lighthouse, so they decided -- congress finally appropriated funds for the construction of our lighthouse at point san luis at t

. >> the town of avila beach is pretty much a case study of the entire state of california. not only do we have a native people, the chumash, who lived here 2000 -- here for the past 10,000 years, we also have a spanish ssion, which is the town san luis was build around. this was the entrance to and from the town when people would come by the sea. the importance stems from the 1870's. all of -- when all of the piers were constructed. one was active, the hartford, which is open today. shipscould bring people and supplies. a good example of that type of commerce is the early missions here would sell off their tallow and hides from their cattle. you'd have small sailing ships coming around from boston, land here, pick up hides and bring them back to boston and make shoes out of them. so you have people in boston wearing shoes made from the leather that came from the central coast. there was a huge connection between our tiny town here and more of a wider national audience. a little bit later, a lot of oil exportation coming from our oil to the santa maria feeleds, things like t

. >> the town of avila beach is pretty much a case study of the entire state of california. not only do we have a native people, the chumash, who lived but we havears, this mission which the town was built around. this was the entrance to and from the town when people would come by the sea. the importance stems from the 1870's. weref the piers constructed. one was active, the hartford. , which is open today. which is opener, today. ships could bring people and supplies. a good example of that type of commerce is the early missions here would sell off their tallow and hides. you have small sailing ships coming around from boston, land here, pick up hides and bring them back to boston and make shoes. you have people wearing shoes made from the leather that came from the central coast. there was a huge connection between our tiny town and more of a wider, national audience. and then more oil exportation coming from our town, the santa maria oilfield. it was piped in and exported through our town area they felt the need to have a lighthouse here. they decided to appropriate -- c

announcer: located 10 miles from san luis obispo, we traveled to avila beach to see the point san luisighthouse.

avila 91 bill pittsford not far behind at 8889. a couple of 60's point raise being among them at 68 stinson beach right out 70 for a much more comfortable daytime high that much of the rest of the bay is going to see today and tomorrow almost mirroring each other very similar days come thursday, a little bit of a cool down and then noticing those 70's back in your forecast all the way through friday saturday and sunday into monday one low chance of rain and that's just a few showers possible on sunday evening. robin. >>all right, i'm seeing a very slight improvement for west found 92, it's been tough this morning started off with an accident in santa tale followed by some debris at the high rise, a look at this massive status at a crawl here barely moving out of hayward soared one point it was an hour. now we're down to 41 minutes which is still not good. but at least it's slowly improving be prepared for that the bay bridge traffic here from oakland and san francisco looks normal right it's always at a crawl during this time stacked up from the oakland may's all connectors are slow you're down to 60 minutes but don't be surprised if he