[DogByte6RER]

Historic panorama: A camera soaring above San Francisco Bay by a kite immediately following the earthquake of 1906 captures the mass destruction from the historic 7.9 magnitude quake

[DogByte6RER]

Maybe GGG material

[cripplecreek]

Very cool photo. I just love photography anyway.

[gorush]

Thanks for posting

[gorush]

Thanks for posting

[null and void]

No fire...

(They didn’t start until people realized there was no coverage for earthquake damage, but fire insurance would pay to rebuild)

[giotto]

Even more stunning than the ingenuity of this photographer is the realization that San Francisco was once a thriving port.

[Paladin2]

The Photog was clearly a Gnurd for his time. He rocks for doing kool things.

[Paladin2]

The Photog was clearly a Gnurd for his time. He rocks for doing kool things.

[Popman]

Pretty amazing I can see several tall building still standing considering the magnitude of the quake.....Guess them actual made building back them to last

Too bad the same city is now a cesspool of perversion and deviates

[Revolting cat!]

FYI: All the people in that picture are dead now.

[Cold Heart]

BTTT

[Oatka]

I read an interesting tidbit about the mindset then. The U.S. government offered any help needed. The Mayor or Governor said something like, “Thank you. We’ll let you know if we need help.”

Nowadays, a heavier than usual rainfall results in cries for FEMA.

[Roscoe Karns]

[The Working Man]

I have a digital copy of a 16mm movie that was reportedly filmed three days before the earthquake. It was taken from the front of a trolley car. It’s a very neat film in that the few automobiles in it had virtually no rules of the road. Cars and horse drawn wagons and pedestrians all shared the road willy-nilly.

I am making a copy of this picture and adding it to my historical files. Thanks for posting it.

[martin_fierro]

Trolley ride down Market Street, 1906 (4 days before the Quake)

[Poison Pill]

Notice docks in the foreground. SF used to have a thriving commercial dock system. The unions killed it.

[ccmay]

Looks to me like the Fairmont hotel up on the hill survived the quake.

[Eye of Unk]

My grandfather would have been there, he was starting up a banking business on orange crates for people wanting to rebuild.

[the invisib1e hand]

that’s some picture, but I guess I just don’t get the devastation part.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for posting this .... waaaaay cool.