San Francisco - Earthquake & fire, 1906 "Ruins on Kearney St. near Post Office". Library of Congress. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents were awakened by a 40-second tremor that ...

The 1906 earthquake and the devastating fire that followed changed the neighborhood dramatically. The disaster destroyed most of San Francisco's business district and many of its residential ...

With that in mind, I began to think about our sibling city up the coast, and the near-death experience it had in 1906 ... and fire, MGM released its prestige film “San Francisco,” starring ...