San Francisco Earthquake - 18 April 1906

[+ Avalon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake

 

A bit late with this. I had a friend whose mother was in the earthquake. She was just a girl. She had just come downstairs and sat down on a bench in the hall. Her mother called her to the kitchen. A few seconds after she got up and left the earthquake struck and ceiling above the bench where she had been sitting collapsed.

[+ bigjoey]

 

In my mind, it was the thunderous applause that Jeanette MacDonald received that caused the earthquake.

[+ azdr0710]

we'll excuse Hollywood for the fact that the 1906 earthquake occurred at 5:12am......that was a late show for Jeanette!

 

here's a well-known favorite video.....though it wasn't filmed at the time of the earthquake (5:12am, you know), it's a fantastic very early film of Market St and the ferry building a few days before the quake.....sound effects added, of course....watch to the end - the last 90 seconds are haunting

 

[+ Avalon]

we'll excuse Hollywood for the fact that the 1906 earthquake occurred at 5:12am......that was a late show for Jeanette!

 

here's a well-known favorite video.....though it wasn't filmed at the time of the earthquake (5:12am, you know), it's a fantastic very early film of Market St and the ferry building a few days before the quake.....sound effects added, of course....watch to the end - the last 90 seconds are haunting

 

 

Very interesting. Thank-you for sharing.

[TruHart1]

In my mind, it was the thunderous applause that Jeanette MacDonald received that caused the earthquake.

What? Are you intimating that was not the actual cause? LOL!:confused:

 

TruHart1