Day 34 – SF earthquake

Submitted by Carl Breckenridge

It was just 4 days after Tuesday morning, April 18, 2006 – 14 years ago today. We were standing at the corner of Buchanan and Chestnut streets in the San Francisco Marina District, looking for Chestnut Street in the dark in search of something that might be a Stockton 30 bus. Almuni used to operate buses according to their schedule of work that night.

One hundred years ago at 5:12 am, the earth was shaking at the rhythm of an earthquake of 7.9 on the Richter scale, and this corner and most of the marina – filled with land 50 years ago by Chinese workers, would drown again at sea, and what buildings – most of the apartments with The tires, then and now – which remained above the water line, will burn.

Toyota went out of nowhere, with two attractive women. The passenger said, “Are you going to something in the middle of the city? Jump in!”

A small segment wanted me to say “No – we stand in this corner in the dark, wearing clothes like a couple of Kentucky Fried Idiots, waiting for thirty because we don’t want to be late in the baseball game tonight …” But I didn’t. We got to the back seat of Toyota and forged a friendship – within 20 minutes it took to get to the city center – which has lasted forever forever.

A crowd of 25,000 souls has already arrived on Market Street near the Lotta Fountain – the 15-foot-high milestone near Jerry Street who survived the fire after the earthquake.

Carl, portraying Dennis Sullivan, and the companion, depicting Mrs. Fonston, in front of the Lotta Fountain. Photo: Carl Breckenridge

Market Street is eight or ten cars and wide width car lanes at this intersection – many for the revelers already there – some of them only remained in the city center after the bars closed at two o’clock – and others who were steadily arriving by bus, tram and shank from remote neighborhoods. In another hour, the crowd was estimated at 45,000.

Most of them wore memorial fashion in 1906, and they assumed someone’s character was alive at the time. I was dressed in Levis, a loyal black derby and a red knight blouse, and I was shooting Dennis Sullivan, the firefighter SF. I was accompanied by a beautiful San Francisco lady who was on her way to tea with Mrs. Fonston at her Presidio home, where her husband, Army General Frederick Fonston, was Presidio’s commander. This gorgeous San Francisco lady uniform was a mixture of trips to the thrift store and Home Depot.

But – she did the job – most of the TV stations interviewed the beautiful lady in the early morning hours, stayed in the character, and heard the next day and at our dinner that evening because of the sadness of the viewers that she was unable to serve tea.

O’Brother…

In 2006, 14 people survived at the time of the earthquake, as well as a younger lady who was born exactly nine months after the earthquake. Her parents had been searching for shelter in a tent in the Golden Gate Park on the night of the earthquake, well … after nine months she arrived in the city. Other survivors heard it, heard about it, in their exclusive circle, where they were honored alongside them for many years.

All of them died in 2020 … (parentally, 300,000 people were without homes that night …)

It was a show for firefighters – departments from all over California sent a classic firefighter that could still extinguish a lot of water, which they did on platform 3, destroying the cones by spraying them. The last couple stayed away from Embarcadero; none of the antique engines were able to reach her by pressing it.

I saw – and a few others – what would happen next, kept the lid off, and remained the only dry monitors next to the ferry terminal. A San Francisco firefighting boat – the Phoenix – only a small puff of black smoke, and a nozzle, blasted on a 40-foot mast above the deck, turned toward the last cones, which could not demolish a unit on shore.

The gunboat fired on the cones, so to speak; the enormous pressure of a copper and inch copper nozzle caused the cones to collapse, and then the fun began, as the men on the fireboat were providing their comrades – and everyone else on Embarcadero – a saltwater bath. All in good fun …

San Francisco fire truck. Photo: Carl Breckenridge

On the one hand, the Phoenix ship is not named not yet the city of Arizona, but for legendary birds that SF uses as its symbol; the city and birds rise victorious from the ash …

American LaFrance, which has been selling hardware to the city of San Francisco for more than a hundred years, has given the department a small gift to show its gratitude for the long relationship. The city requested 16 new fire engines delivered that morning. Unbeknownst to the city, ALF painted all 16 motors in an antique dark red color that had not been seen on an SFFD truck since the 1940s. And with a heavy heavy gold bar it is almost invisible daily, but is completely breathtaking in the dark under street lights or car headlights. These “centenary” engines still roam the streets of San Francisco.

It was a really great day in The City. The crowds left Market Street quietly at noon. I – and about a hundred others from Dennis T. Sullivan – died that day, crushed when his residence collapsed in a stable horse stable next to him. My pretty lady didn’t get to Presidio for tea with Mrs. Funston, but Eric’s bark behind the Izzy restaurant bar bought her Lemon Drop Martini that night. We went home – tired but happy – along Lombard Street to Buchanan, which had been a hundred years ago flooded with salt water and still burning.

This is how we spent on April 18, so let’s be safe about that, right?

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Carl Breckenridge is slowly going nuts. So he decided to help this is Renault by writing a daily column out of his mind throughout the closing of the coronavirus. Carl grew up in the valley and has stories from the region dating back to 1945. He has been writing for 32 years locally and loves to wake up with friends … Now he sits six feet away.

Day 34 – SF earthquake

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Day 31 – Sacramento

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Day 30 – pancakes

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Day 29 – Wells Trench Avenue

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Day 28 – Easter

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Day 26 – Dania Hall

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Day 24 – Champagne and Hartman

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Day 23 – Bruce Thompson’s return

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Day 22 – Monday …

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Day 21 – Siphon or Ditch

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Day 20 – mite

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Day 19 – Sparks Railroad Square

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Day 18 – Judge Bruce Thompson

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Day 17 – April Fools

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Day 16 – Gossip Tower

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Day 15 – More restaurant owners Judy Ashton

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Day 14 – Just Ramplin

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