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1906 Earthquake
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Lots of brick & mortar buildings, in a known earthquake zone/s
on fill/reclaimed marshlands makes it even worse
liguidification of the soil, literally sunk like almost in water
they didn't know much back then either, of the cause & effects
pretty devastating
on fill/reclaimed marshlands makes it even worse
liguidification of the soil, literally sunk like almost in water
they didn't know much back then either, of the cause & effects
pretty devastating
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My Great Grandfather/Great Grandmother was there in SF,
they lived thru all of it & the aftereffects too
their place wasn't destroyed, but most places all around him were
many were burned to the ground by multiple spreading fires,
if not affected by the earthquake directly
his place was where/near 'Candlestick park' was later built...
the story of the earthquake was told a few times,
before I was really too young
when the family, 1st told us,
I got most of it from my aunt & my dad
my aunt had a crapload of the photos from all the newspaper clippings
my GGPs both saved
My Granddad (their 1st son, my dad's dad) was born in SF too,
in May 1906,
less than a month after the huge quakes, of April (?) 1906
Great Grammie must have gone thru hell
no water for months had to go carry buckets home
no sewage either
very lil' groceries/stores were open
luckily the hospital close to them was spared
they had to take a ferry across the bay, to Berkely
or Oakland sometimes, just to get to Berkely somehow,
they still had horse-drawn carts, roads were messed up
no Bay Bridge (started in 1936)
go across several times a week for supplies,
& they weren't wealthy by any stretch, just working stiffs
the ferry was a days wages, they had some sort of stamps
they had to use to get supplies
supplies that were all 'strictly rationed', as the story goes
My Great Grandfather, Granddad's father
was a electrician when PG&E 1st started up in 1905
my Great Grandmother was a seamstress for Capwells,
not sure when that started (1929 ?)
she was a stay at home mother before that
most the rest of my family was in Berkeley/Albany
or east bay inland quite a bit, an area across the bay
long before it was an activist (Liberals) town,
they had a crapload of damage in Berkely too...
they lived thru so much crap there
good & bad, mostly bad
they lived thru all of it & the aftereffects too
their place wasn't destroyed, but most places all around him were
many were burned to the ground by multiple spreading fires,
if not affected by the earthquake directly
his place was where/near 'Candlestick park' was later built...
the story of the earthquake was told a few times,
before I was really too young
when the family, 1st told us,
I got most of it from my aunt & my dad
my aunt had a crapload of the photos from all the newspaper clippings
my GGPs both saved
My Granddad (their 1st son, my dad's dad) was born in SF too,
in May 1906,
less than a month after the huge quakes, of April (?) 1906
Great Grammie must have gone thru hell
no water for months had to go carry buckets home
no sewage either
very lil' groceries/stores were open
luckily the hospital close to them was spared
they had to take a ferry across the bay, to Berkely
or Oakland sometimes, just to get to Berkely somehow,
they still had horse-drawn carts, roads were messed up
no Bay Bridge (started in 1936)
go across several times a week for supplies,
& they weren't wealthy by any stretch, just working stiffs
the ferry was a days wages, they had some sort of stamps
they had to use to get supplies
supplies that were all 'strictly rationed', as the story goes
My Great Grandfather, Granddad's father
was a electrician when PG&E 1st started up in 1905
my Great Grandmother was a seamstress for Capwells,
not sure when that started (1929 ?)
she was a stay at home mother before that
most the rest of my family was in Berkeley/Albany
or east bay inland quite a bit, an area across the bay
long before it was an activist (Liberals) town,
they had a crapload of damage in Berkely too...
they lived thru so much crap there
good & bad, mostly bad
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