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A small business helping to generate good vibrations in Brisbane, Ca:

It is easy to support local businesses when they provide quality products and services. Our local 7 Mile House sports bar and restaurant is proof that quality is the small business owners best investment. Established in 1853, The 7 Mile House has been in business for over 150 years. Walking into 7 Mile House, it

Richard Sherwin

On September 21st 2011, Generators Unlimited co-founder, Richard Sherwin, sustained serious injuries during an industrial accident.  It has been a long road toward recovery, but like Richard always says, “The harder I work, the luckier I get”.  True to form, Richard has been working hard at both Occupational and Physical therapy, and is getting “luckier” everyday.  His self

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President Obama at Facebook

In April of 2011, Generators Unlimited provided temporary power at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, CA for President Obama’s town hall meeting.  The following is a letter we sent to President Obama after the event.

Dear President Obama,

We were pleased to have our company Generators Unlimited, Inc., located in Northern, California, contracted to provide the power for the lighting during your recent Town Hall visit at

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Solar Power

Solar remains something of a buzzword floating around in todays headlines. Although we hear so much about solar energy, we don’t see much of it being utilized in our energy economy.  This lack of application is not because solar is a new concept to us. In fact,  solar was used by the ancient Pharaohs to

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Portable Generators and Grounding

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PORTABLE GENERATORS

The use of portable generators is a common piece of equipment used on filming sets, special events, commercial/industrial, emergency response and or disaster relief, and other locations where shore power is not readily available.

Because most remote locations do not have sufficient power supplies to operate lighting and electrical equipment, portable generators

In Remembrance

This September eleventh, we memorialized the estimated 3,497 Americans who lost their lives to terrorism. We remember and honor the firefighters and policemen who carried their fellow Americans on their backs, and reminded us how our country stands strong in its thirteenth hour. Throughout the nation we commemorated the tenth anniversary in a special way.

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Elephant Walk

Elephants Walking by GU Headquarters

In September of 2011 the Barnum and Bailey Circus, who had been performing at the Cow Palace, brought the show to the streets of San Francisco in a rarely seen “Elephant Walk”. The lumbering elephants clasping on to each other from trunk to tale made their way down Geneva Avenue flayed by hoards of

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Fleet Week

On January 19th 1911, Eugene Ely took off in his Curtiss pusher airplane from the Tanforan racetrack in San Bruno and landed on the USS Pennsylvania anchored off the San Francisco pier. Ely was the first pilot in history to land an airplane aboard a warship. Nearly 100 years after the inception of Naval aviation

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