Another great story Susan.    I have such wonderful mental pictures of the places you write of.  

Terrific!!!  Loved the Santana story….Thanks Susan…I was in Alaska and survived the big quake of 1964…It wasn’t fun I can tell you that.:mansad:

  Mission High School 

  Delores Park 1917

 Delores Park …current

Good morning Susan

I enjoyed your story on the 1906 Quake.  I love the fact that you relate to real life characters.  Many of the books I’ve read years ago were kind of bland and never covered those stories.  That’s probably why most students never took an interest in history.

The closest we’ve ever come to an earth quake happened about three or four years ago.  It was centered, I believe, outside of Washington DC.  We felt it all the way up in PA and it happened so fast that we didn’t even know what was going on.  The kitchen chairs slidind out from the table while I was reading the paper and the vibration.  I just looked at my wife and said " What the xxxx was that? ".  At first, we thought it was an explosion near by.  By the time we realized what had happened it was over.  I did find a crack in our sidewalk that afternoon.  What an experience.

                                                                              Ronnie

Book:

Three Fearful days, San Francisco Memoirs of the 1906 earthquake & fire    compiled and introduced by Malcom E. Barker    1998 Londonborn Publications—-I highly highly recommend this book—all eyewitness testimonies of those days!!! I especially love the chapters on rolling the Hotaling’s whiskey barrels down to safety on Jackson St and also of the S____ family’s stove and piano at the curb on !8th and Dolores Sts.