[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway. There are really nice still photos in a book I've got around (it was one of the titles left behind when one of the elderly cousins passed), The Good Years: From 1900 To The First World War by Walter Lord. An early priority after the quake was to dig out the routes used by the cablecars, which were up and running in short order, and made the debris hauling and moving of food and water very much easier. I recall a photo showing the tumbled Greek-style columns in front of one of the public buildings -- they had been said to be stone, but were revealed to be metal rings stacked up and fastened together.

[BenLurkin]

Looking forward to seeing. Might make an interesting companion piece to this footage:

San Francisco’s Market Street Over Popular Songs Of The Day (1906)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ZeJIMSOT4

[afraidfortherepublic]

I recall a photo showing the tumbled Greek-style columns in front of one of the public buildings -- they had been said to be stone, but were revealed to be metal rings stacked up and fastened together.

Earthquakes in CA have a habit of revealing short cuts in construction. After the Tehachapi quake in 1953, the 3+ story brick wall at the rear of the auditorium/cafeteria at our high school was found to have no reinforcing steel -- was little more than an outer shell of bricks with rubble tossed in between. But, for a school that claimed that the marching band on stage might pull the whole thing down, it took 2 years and $1million to demolish and replace it. Brick construction is no longer allowed in CA schools. For what it's worth, our school was more than 100 miles from Tehachapi.

[Monkey Face]

This is one time I wish I still lived in Fremont.

Thanks, SC!

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[wildbill]

I wonder if this isn’t the same historian that wrote a very good book on the life of Billy the Kid” I read it as a boy and was impressed with how he was able to meld history with a novelist’s eye. I always remembered the ending of his tale which had a eerie, almost mystical, feel to it.

As an adult I went to Ft. Sumner to participate in a sports car race at the old Army Air Base of UFO fame. One of the highlights of my trip was a visit to the cemetery of OLd Ft. Summner to see the Kid’s grave and relive that book’s ending.