[PRCo] Re: EARTHQAUAKE

[Bob Rathke]

An ironic twist, Don.

I remember exactly where I was when the earthquake occured in 1989...in 
Chicago, listening to the baseball game from San Francisco on the radio. 
The game went off the air just before I left the house to go to a Boy Scout 
meeting.

Bob 8/9/05


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Galt" <galtfd at att.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:08 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 
PTM___Trolley--Fare___Column___December--1989_--_EARTHAUAKE


> Interesting series of posts, Jim.
>
> I walked through The Marina shortly after the following New Year - 
> trolleys
> were still limited to the short turn - and was quite amazed to see 
> building
> after building jacked up again and under repair. This after having sat
> transfixed before the TV a few months earlier watching the devastation 
> along
> these same streets.
>
> A note of irony: The Marina is built on land, much of it reclaimed, 
> developed
> after serving as the site of the Pan-Pacific Exposition of 1915 - an expo 
> in
> large part staged to celebrate the city's recovery from the 1906 
> earthquake and
> fire.
>
> Don
>
>