Happy 100th Birthday to the Great San Francisco Earthquake - Page 2

Prudence · 04-18-2006, 08:11 AM

I don't think we've ever managed to have our earthquakes and our city-destroying fires happen at the same time. So yay SF!

Matterhorn Fan · 04-18-2006, 02:36 PM

I do love San Francisco.

innerSpaceman · 04-18-2006, 03:08 PM

Just curious ... how long did it take for San Francisco to "rise from the ashes"?? The folks in New Orleans want a benchmark.

Matterhorn Fan · 04-18-2006, 03:20 PM

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San Francisco did of course rebuild itself, making its formal debut as in the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition, a world’s fair visited by millions from all over the world. The city never regained its status as the capital of the West, losing that title to Los Angeles, but it did, for all effects and purposes, come back. One can only hope that New Orleans will do so, and as triumphantly, too.

Source: link here.

€uroMeinke · 04-18-2006, 03:23 PM

New Orleans World Fair!

Matterhorn Fan · 04-18-2006, 03:24 PM

They've got about 8 years to get ready.

innerSpaceman · 04-18-2006, 03:24 PM

And was it before or after the Big One that San Franciscans got all persnickity about the city being called either "Frisco" or "San Fran?"

Sometimes I think another quake might actually do the trick.

Matterhorn Fan · 04-18-2006, 03:26 PM

They've been persnickety through at least one major earthquake already, so I'm not sure that's going to work.

FWIW, I cannot STAND the word "Frisco." (I'm not from there, but I have family who were, maybe that's why?)

CoasterMatt · 04-18-2006, 04:29 PM

But your Disney geek heritage! The Frisco Kid!

Matterhorn Fan · 04-18-2006, 06:36 PM

As I've never seen the Frisco Kid, I'm afraid I have no Disney-Frisco heritage; thus, my San Franciscan heritage wins out.

04-18-2006, 08:11 AM	#11
Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	I don't think we've ever managed to have our earthquakes and our city-destroying fires happen at the same time. So yay SF! __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	New Orleans World Fair! __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Matterhorn Fan Double Agent Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Back East Posts: 2,071	They've got about 8 years to get ready.
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Matterhorn Fan Double Agent Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Back East Posts: 2,071	They've been persnickety through at least one major earthquake already, so I'm not sure that's going to work. FWIW, I cannot STAND the word "Frisco." (I'm not from there, but I have family who were, maybe that's why?)
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CoasterMatt BRAAAAAAAINS! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: One Step Beyond... Posts: 8,802	But your Disney geek heritage! The Frisco Kid! __________________ Do you like my photography? Visit photosbymatt.tumblr.com to purchase prints!
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04-18-2006, 06:36 PM	#20
Matterhorn Fan Double Agent Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Back East Posts: 2,071	As I've never seen the Frisco Kid, I'm afraid I have no Disney-Frisco heritage; thus, my San Franciscan heritage wins out.
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