Facts and Factoids the Big One Revisited …
Next month, on April 18th at 05:12 to be exact, the City of San Francisco will mark the centennial of the Great Earthquake and Fire that permanently changed its landscape, people, its story, and its fortunes.
To mark that anniversary here, we will from time to time (starting today) present a few little known facts and factoids about that day. Some of the information will come from Simon Winchester’s remarkable book, A Crack in the Edge of the World. Other details will come from various archives and historical societies. It won’t be too difficult because for one thing that event in a way also marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. As it happens, this was the first great natural disaster to be photographed extensively. (OMG, the first factoid slipped out!)
See you all at Lotta’s Fountain next month!