Loma Prieta

I’m a Bay Area native. I lived on Carl Street at Stanyan in the outer Haight that day. I was a tour guide and did a Chinatown tour in the morning. After that, I ran upstairs into the stacks at the main library for some research material, drove across the Bay Bridge to Oakland on [...]

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Loma Prieta

Jon O’Bergh is a keyboardist with the Bay Area jazz/funk fusion group Gemini Soul and a composer. A few days ago I came across his story about the earthquake and other events in his life during 1989. He agreed to let me post the part of his story recalling the earthquake, so here it is:
One [...]

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“Oh, No!”

This earthquake story comes from the Santa Cruz library’s collection of a handful of stories on the impact of Loma Prieta and its aftermath on its various services. The home page for the collection is here. And, the following story by Fred Ulrich, branch manager at the Boulder Creek Library, originally appeared here.
I was sitting at [...]

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