Posted on 08/08/2020 1:27:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I was living on the eastern US at the time, when this tragedy happened and I am sorry for the souls lost.
A phonebook? What's that to today's millenials and gen z?
If an earthquake happened today, they would look on their smartphones and the smartphone would be out.
San Francisco? Try Loma Prieta, over 50 miles away.
Thanks. I’ve never seen this.
I was in the earthquake, not 100 miles away in San Francisco.
It was something.
I got a good ride in Cupertino.
I can see them. frantically asking Sirius or Uranus or whatever that is in their little iFag phones and getting silence.
Like the black couple in "Mule" Clint Eastwood come across trying to get a cell signal to get instruction on how to change a flat tire.
Bay Area Quake right in middle of the Bay Area World Series.
That was crazy.
I had my hiring interview with EDS at 1 Beach St in San Francisco the morning of the earthquake. EDS paid for my overnight stay at the nearby Sheraton the night before. I got the job and then drove back to Sacramento via I-80 over the Bay Bridge. I was in the computer lab at school when the earthquake hit. Thought someone was working on the roof.
Oops, quote was from some other article.
I turned the World Series game on a little later. I still remember the ambulance out on the playing field.
Hollywood Park race call during earthquake.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXiwR7893M
I watched the central corridor of our Fab twist and wave.
It was way kewl!
Love the 80’s fashion.
Even still then people were not the slobs and worse that they are today.
Every time I was on the bottom deck of the Cypress Structure I’d look up and wonder what it would do in an earthquake.
Every. Single. Time.
80s fashion was a giant improvement over the 70s........the ugliest in my very long life.
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Just days before the earthquake, I visited the Bay Area to watch the USC-Cal game. My route took me over Cuesta los Gatos, which is not far from the earthquake’s epicenter at Loma Prieta.
And Hollywood Park was about 300 miles away.
Came home from work, turned tv on, No World Series . Tuned to the radio broadcast of what should have been the game , found out about the quake.
I was on the air at a radio station 400 miles away when the quake struck, I felt a swaying motion and saw the speaker monitors on the wall begin gently swinging back and forth. I knew immediately that it was a big one somewhere.
You can’t get worse than 70s “fashion”, that’s why.
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