We are located in Beautiful Poway, California, 'The city in the Country'. Thirty minutes north-east of down town San Diego up the I-15 freeway you will find Poway surrounded by the communities of Scripps Ranch, Carmel Mountain Ranch, Ramona, and Lakeside. -map-

SKG Automotive Customizers
14035 Kirkham Way, Suite 106
Poway, CA 92064

Store Hours:
By Appointment only

Phone: 858-748-3504
Fax: 858-748-3997
gwilliams@mcmillin.com


More Poway History
Poway's contemporary history began in 1758, when padres from the Mission San Diego de Alcala kept cattle in the valley. The name "Paguay," one of many original spellings, appears on mission documents in 1774. The name, also written as Paguai, Paui, Pauai, Pauy, Powaii, and finally Poway, has incurred dispute as to its meaning. While one Native American linguist insists that it means “here, where the waters meet,” the consensus has traditionally translated the word as “the two little valleys.”
For approximately a century Poway served as a stock range for the mission, until settlers began to come to the valley for farming purposes in the late antebellum period. Few records of this time have survived, and not until 1894 and the inception of the Poway Progress did the town's history become a thing of record.
In 1887, about 800 people lived and farmed fruit, grain, and dairy products. Expansion, however, failed to follow agricultural success. Though the farmers prospered, the town existed in a static state for decades, varying only slightly in population, demographics, crop selection, and the like. Poway has a creek and fertile soil, but the lack of easily available water prevented the settlement from attracting large-scale farmers and the accompanying population growth.
Not until 1954 did the town establish the Poway Municipal Water District, which utilizes water from the Colorado River Aqueduct to irrigate all of Poway's 10,000 acres (40 km²). The city started to grow, developers built housing tracts, and modern Poway grew from there.
In 1980 Poway incorporated and officially became the City of Poway (nicknamed "the City in the Country") rather than a part of San Diego. Poway no longer depends on agriculture for its primary source of income, and has instead transitioned into a residential community for those who work for employers in and around the San Diego area.
According to a recent state government estimate the population of Poway has grown since that last census to 50,542.                                                                                                               -wikipedia-