Includes a side by side comparison of trolley car trips down Market Street taken 1. on April 14, 1906, four days before the quake and fire, and 2. shortly after. In addition to the devastation, check out the lack of traffic regulation - the trolley car is on a track, but there's no rhyme or reason to anything else - no traffic lights, no lanes, and no rules.
To: harpygoddess
Note the lack of vehicle traffic. Reminds me of Moscow, East Berlin, or any Soviet bloc city during the Cold War.
2 posted on
04/18/2018 6:30:09 AM PDT by
Fiji Hill
To: harpygoddess
As a result, about 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed I have read several articles that state that the city officials deliberately under reported the number of killed.
Considering the report of 80% of the city destroyed that number seems very low.
3 posted on
04/18/2018 6:33:03 AM PDT by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: harpygoddess
4 posted on
04/18/2018 6:34:51 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: harpygoddess
Looks like it was just as difficult driving down Market St. then as it is now! lol
5 posted on
04/18/2018 7:00:14 AM PDT by
rmccullo
To: harpygoddess
If the fires hadn’t broken out the damage to the city would have been much lower. Indeed, what made the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 124,000 people in the Tokyo so dead was the fact that earthquake happened right in the middle of the lunch period when cooking fires were going; as such, the resulting firestorm destroyed most of Tokyo.
6 posted on
04/18/2018 7:15:23 AM PDT by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: harpygoddess
Just sold my Silicon Valley home. Another reason I’m glad to be getting out.
7 posted on
04/18/2018 7:29:03 AM PDT by
Huskrrrr
To: harpygoddess
An honest conversation about the 1906 earthquake would include the corruption which erupted in its wake with the flood of funds to rebuild the city.
Worthy of research and germane to any analysis of CA, particularly the bay area.
9 posted on
04/18/2018 7:57:37 AM PDT by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
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