Please Retweet: http://clicktotweet.com/fBK53 Here is a side-by-side comparison of two filmed journeys down Market Street shot in April of 1906 sourced from the Prelinger Archives at http://www.archive.org. The video on the left has enjoyed wide circulation online, but has often been incorrectly dated to 1905. Subsequent research by Historian David Kiehn of the Niles Essanay … [Read more...]
Survivors of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake remember (1984)
A look back with some survivors (most were children at the time) of the great quake of 1906. San,Francisco,Earthquake,1906 … [Read more...]
1906 San Francisco quake’s oldest survivor dies
Ruth Newman was just four years old when a giant quake destroyed much of San Francisco and the surrounding area in 1906. She was 113 when she died, the oldest survivor of the disaster. Jane Pauley reports. video,cbs,news,San Francisco,earthquake,1906 … [Read more...]