San Francisco Earthquake 1906 - Before and After Journey Down Market Street

[@mariorodas8500]

Every person crossing the camera is immortalizing those seconds of movement, and completely unaware of it. It's a totally random moment for them, but that's the one moment of their lives that would be watched by people 100-plus years into the future and they have no idea. It's all I can think about.

[@markg999]

I have that very same thought.

[@JonJonesLPM]

Mario Rodas That's actually kind of mind blowing to think about. While I can imagine them seeing and being around a motion picture camera and crew was an especially rare experience at that time, I doubt any of those depicted could have imagined just how profoundly a manner in which they have been immortalized for history. Thank you for your wonderfully thought-provoking comment.

[@xx-mreba-xx4051]

+Mario Rodas True just like those people in NYC before the attacks on 9/11 just a random moment before all hell broke loose

[@dator.]

+Mario Rodas so true !!!

[@xx-mreba-xx4051]

longhairfan lol I live in LA things haven't changed much XD

[@2degucitas]

This was genius to put the two films side by side like this. Thank you! My mothers parents both survived the quake, but their lives were changed dramatically. My grandfather's father disappeared, either dead or awol. His mother had a nervous breakdown and was sent to a nunnery. Her children (including my grandfather) went to live on "the street", and had to make a living for themselves.

[@Mike-ky9jz]

It is fantastic footage. Showing the stark difference is quite chilling. The thing that really blew my mind was in the footage before the quake. You are witnessing the dawn of the car, the end of the horse drawn cart, and people just everywhere. All kinds of near miss accidents, cars driving just anywhere and everywhere. No lane designations yet. It's pretty crazy .

[@macmega2789]

Driving and being a pedestrian in San Francisco is still very much like this.

[@greenman8]

I was watching POV Videos of driving, for each decade. You can see the driving skills and laws evolve, until about 1950, when it seems like, they finally got the driving sense, and rules of the road down. It probably took consistent accidents of individuals, to make people change and build driving laws. (likewise it took DUI laws to be taken seriously, in the 70s and 80s.) Contrast this slow change, to a devastating, massive event, like the 1906 Earthquake, to make safety and building codes a thing for the 'new' 20th century.

[@greenman8]

@@macmega2789 one word: Berkeley.

[@vanessahenry7238]

@@macmega2789 LOL!!! YES!!! True!

[@DB103Freak]

On the Left you see a lot of Happy People. On the Right, a lot of the People you saw in the Left Video are already Dead... This is Depressing...

[@Religious_man]

Dead, missing, in hospitals, refugees, in their homes, committing random crimes from block to block, etc.

[@TedTheAtheist]

There are walking dead people on the right?!

[@arryo2365]

Today, all the people are dead.

[@thelinkan3512]

Meh people always die

[@wolfgang548]

DB103Freak - And now everyone in the footage is dead.

[@JonJonesLPM]

In this instance, a large camera apparatus affixed upon the front of the trolly was very much a curiosity - especially in that era. And locals had been apprised of its filming plans in the weeks prior via fliers posted in the area asking for citizens to look extra busy and pump up the appearance of a developing city 'abuzz' with excitement. That kid weaving back and forth in the tracks, however was just a little overkill, and his antics are more comical than 'busy'.

[@Oakleaf700]

@TrueGamer9 Probably how we gawk at google Earth camera car now! {I have seen one or two in our city, and people do look!}

[@Oakleaf700]

@TrueGamer9 When you do, you will stare! I looked on Google Earth where I saw it, but haven't yet seen my blurred out face...So maybe they weren't filming at that time. If you live in a reasonably populated city, you will probably see it eventually...It is very obvious with cameras on it, high up. 🙂

[@kellyspann9845]

They also had a sign on the front of the trolley letting people know the camera was in that trolley filming and the guy's in the car's were hired to keep driving passed the trolley to make it look like there were more cars on the streets because there were very few cars at that time, Checkout the license plates and you can see the same cars go by over and over and turning around in front of the trolley.

[@matthewdavenport2490]

It was a cable car, not a trolley. Trolleys were (and are still) electric streetcars, and Market Street in 1906 only ran cable cars (because city leaders did not want overhead trolley wires running over Market St).

[@Lookinland]

Man, the state of the traffic flow back then Getting hit by an automobile,tram or horse and carriage must've been a regular occurrence

[@ms_scribbles]

But on the plus side, they were going a lot slower back then.

[@claynpendleton]

@2degucitas My grandfather (who was in his 20s at the time) also survived the quake. After dabbling in the publishing business he decided (a year or so before the quake) to start a construction business. It almost bankrupted him...then the quake came and his firm ended up helping to rebuild the city. Such amazing footage of the very street my grandfather H.C. Pendleton surely walked down.

[@dianawatson3680]

Great job just saw the trolley video at a Historical Society meeting and decided to find it. Lived in the Bay area in the late 60's early 70's and did not really know all the history at that time. Great job showing the before and after.

[@anonncomm6701]

The weirdest thing about this for me is that all these people are now long gone. Live your life! :S

[@Whotooksniper1]

I had a simular thought, that everyone in this is dead.

[@NJ-ol5bc]

the last survivor died in January 2016 at 110 years old

[@alliwantisfood6682]

john cena woah!

[@mead2000]

I was wondering if anyone had ever done a side-by-side of these 2 amazing clips, and stumbled across yours. great job. its time for new stroll down market street because you know there's going to be another 'after'...

[@JonJonesLPM]

Yes, it's pretty chaotic. There were fliers posted in the weeks prior in which the producers were inviting locals to help make a good show of their bustling city - so you do see some of the people multiple times, evidently to help make it look like a bit more activity than would otherwise have been the case.

[@Mikej1592]

very well done, archival videos that help preserve history like this are a rare gem. So glad stuff like this has made it to a more robust digital media. Imagine if we still kept stuff on actual film stuff like this would be totally lost after a while.

[@clintonshamis476]

the footage on its own is just so sad, together with the music, its absolutely heart breaking.

[@jimmyb1559]

Our lives are different now yet similar. My grandparents were alive during this time. My father was born in 1914 and my mother in 1917. This video makes me wish I could go back in time and know them while they were young, before having families and other responsibilities.

[@Oakleaf700]

Deeply sad. RIP all who died- kids, adults, horses..dogs cats..

[@CalifaJohn]

According to my grandmother, it was a much more beautiful city before the earthquake and fire. You can look at some of the houses in the Western Addition to get a sense of what it looked like before reconstruction. The fire was stopped before reaching that neighborhood so it has a good number of preserved buildings.

[@pastuh]

Producer unknown? Its obvious Miles Brothers Footage. No one film in that angle like they do.

[@JonJonesLPM]

One of the factors I've thought upon is that due to the nature of such disasters, the fate that is to befall them is unimaginable. They are bustling through the busy streets, some even almost frolicking and there is so much energy and vitality in the life of the city. (Some of this was purposely staged as the producers had posted fliers in prior weeks asking citizens to help drum up the action. But in contrast, the post-disaster footage bears the marks of a population in decimated shock.

[@andersgullberg]

It shows only four days between before and after. It makes me to respect the life more. Sad for those people who died and suffering pain.

[@JonJonesLPM]

Indeed, and the fear and confusion as well. What an incredibly frightening and overwhelming experience it must be to see and hear what seems as though the entire world is ending and crashing down around you. I have been through a couple of large earthquakes, and even though you know WHAT is happening WHEN it is happening, there is still some type of unavoidable shock when faced with the sudden realization that something catastrophic on a MASSIVE scale is going on around you that you cannot stop, and no one else can either. I simply cannot imagine the mindset of those who suffered through this devastation. You are right. It is quite sad.

[@sfdoomed]

Very cool idea to do this. I loved the side by side footage of Market Street just a few days apart. The famous first film is so ominous since we know that a major catastrophe will hit these people in just a few days.

[@emitch9213]

Difficult to imagine...living and walking down market to the docks, I was struck how history was under my feet and then to find the small museum was stunning to view...

[@JonJonesLPM]

Yes, taking the opportunity to let your mind breathe in the mindset of a place that has experienced devastation and change such as this, it can be a powerful thing. Thank you for your comment.

[@yamilandres]

the music is not only beautiful, but also fits perfectly

[@sanctuaryrain2010]

So sad to think that many of the people in the film on the left only had 4 days left to live. Such a horrible tragedy.

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

Over 3000 perished

[@louielouie22]

Hard to believe I was on that street nearly 100 years later.

[@beerrox711]

hard to believe the last survivor died in 2016

[@Yowzoe]

Thanks. I would love to see this exactly aligned geographically and with image stabilization -- a doable project for someone.

[@MsVicki73]

It was already pretty close. They reached that tower at the end of Market Street at about the same time at the end of each video. They seemed so different because most of the buildings you see down Market in the first video had been demolished by the earthquake, fires, and them blowing up some of them with explosives to try and stop the fire from continuing to spread.

[@yamilandres]

please.. thank you great job! its simplicity, its clarity, its lack of distracting 'noise' the perfect example of "less is more" congrats!

[@angelo69jes]

My Father is 54 and he loves History, he was very impress with this video. Thank you for posting it

[@NYC1927]

Awesome! Thank You for posting this! What's even more interesting is seeing the spirit of the people (particularly the young boys) hamming it up for the camera and playing 'chicken' with the trolley car and with the cars. Sort of shows the spirit of the city!

[@Kjsikora007A]

Sorry guys, there were no cars in 1906. Ford didn't start making and selling the model T (first production auto) until 1908. To have this many cars on the road this would be well after that and likely later than 1910.

[@mexstudios6753]

No there is a misunderstanding the first car was actually created in 1885, the Ford model T was the first car to be mass produced

[@Shazzadut1]

Fascinating. The fashions, the bowler hats, the handlebar moustaches. The smoke and dust from the fires and building collapses almost obliterate some of what’s left standing. Must have been horrendous.

[@buckylarue]

Truly chilling. One wonders whether the cameraman may have been the same in both films, as he would have had knowledge of the film he had just shot and perhaps suggested the 'after' film to the newsreel company? Anyway, great job presenting these amazing artifacts!

[@tiberiousss]

Were talking about the early days of the automobile. Man rising out of the muck and stench of the horse and buggy days. Yuk. Whats fascinating is as the streets were becoming more dangerous, you can see the city was taking some early steps to improve safety. I mean this is traffic safety in it's infancy. But you can clearly can see many safety islands that trolley passes. I spotted on at least three or four instances in just this short film of pedestrians having close calls with vehicles.

[@51Telecaster]

What is that music? It is beautiful. Really nice work with the film and audio.

[@vaibanez17]

This is why the Brooklyn baseball team was named the Trolley Dodgers. Here's a great video of how people were dodging trolleys all over the road. Their nickname sticks today even though they are in LA since 1958. It's definitely a wild scene.

[@christopherleonard247]

That Street where the Dodgers Stadium was in Brooklyn is still treacherous. It’s buses now.

[@Wee162]

Exactly the footage I was looking for! Kept waiting for the tower on the horizon to materialize!

[@slantyrock]

Great video, makes you wonder how many of the people on the video on the left hand side survived.

[@NoriMori1992]

The Miles Brothers had no way of knowing there would be an earthquake in a few days, it was pure chance that they happened to film so soon before that event, and thanks to that we got some amazing comparative footage.

[@crookshanks9848]

It is exactly the place where a movie in the early 19s were recorded..omg

[@cbailey6587]

Thank you for posting. I'm new to the KZbin thing & appreciate being able to see video like this. Thanks again from a Grandma' from Texas.

[@SkillUpMobileGaming]

: )

[@stlouisrocker100]

Simply breathtaking. Seeing the city how it was just days before and then shortly afterward. Such is the power of nature. Nice fitting music too.

[@JonJonesLPM]

Thank you so much for your comment. I agree, seeing footage like this is quite humbling in the way it offers a glimpse of the immense power of nature. I am glad you found the music to be fitting. Thanks again.

[@cf8959]

Jon Jones : It made me feel so sad for all these people. They lost everything materially, lost loved ones, but it didn't break their spirit. The worst of the damage was in areas that had been filled in with junk. Then they put up buildings right on top of it. Then, they did it again when they were rebuilding after the quake and fire. If the Bay Area has another earthquake, it'll be 1906 all over again!

[@deniserichardson630]

stlouisrocker100 the city some of it was then built on top of lake beds that they covered up in order to make a buck by putting a building on soft soil and continuing a road !! Today in the mission it’s again built on sand and it proved fatal in 89 but it continues . That’s A day I’ll never forget .

[@JonJonesLPM]

Thank you for your insightful analysis. I was actually not aware that this is what they say. Much appreciated.

[@kevincook2557]

Hauntingly beautiful. Photography, our greatest invention/ discovery. Capturing time, what an amazing thing. Thanks for sharing!

[@stooie1234]

This video is fantastic! I love bofore and afters or then and nows. Thank you for posting this.

[@RandallGove]

The footage on the right was taken by my 6th cousin 3x removed. He was Otis M Gove.

[@RandallGove]

It was a silent film there fore the music and narrator were added.

[@JonJonesLPM]

Yes, it appears he is noted as such via imdb - and I have seen the other SF disaster clips noted there as well. Looks like he was also the cinematographer for the film "Civilization", of which I am familiar. He made a mark on the history of the early film era. That's pretty remarkable. Thank you for sharing.

[@RandallGove]

I am researching him and would like to know if you have more information about him. Do you know where he was buried? I know Los Angeles, but what cemetery? Do you know of a biography or even an obituary. [e-mail] if you want to email me. Thanks

[@JonJonesLPM]

Randall Gove Well I can't say I have much, but I found out some pretty interesting things about Otis's career. Quite fascinating. I'm waiting on a final bit of into I have a researcher looking into. I hope to send you an email most likely tomorrow regarding what I've found.

[@RandallGove]

Thank you

[@brendansimonis3488]

The mood that the music creates is absolutely chilling

[@mrmjb1960]

It's a sad and eerie sight to behold that was never to be again.

[@Hendo56]

Incredible footage of before and after.

[@waynebrasler]

The cable cars did just what they were supposed to do, so ingenious when you think of it. I still love riding them. The traffic and commotion in the city before the quake gives us a remarkable window on another reality. The film shot after the quake is truly sobering.

[@JonJonesLPM]

I am especially thankful that old film content such as this still survives, because you're quite right, it does afford us a remarkable window into a completely different time. The contrast between that time and now gives us much on which to ponder - aside from just the more evident disparity of the before and after footage from the disaster. It makes me wonder how society in 100 years will look back at this time that we are living in right now.

[@dhellender]

I've always wondered what the city might look like today if the earthquake had never happened. I only know of a dozen or so buildings downtown that survived and are still standing in 2012.

[@drscopeify]

It is a good reminder that damage is only temporary, San Francisco built 20,000 new buildings in 3 years so by 1909 the city was well on the way to recovery better and greater than before the quake. Japan rebuilt after 2011 very quickly including relocating entire towns to higher ground and tens of thousands of homes, not to mention factories and business including relocating people due to Fukashima. Sure, the scars and loss is there but life always moves on.

[@GreenninPC]

It really helped me get and idea of how devastating the quake was, thanks for this!

[@steveowen4560]

This is very well put together!

[@MollyAnn2009]

Thanks for posting. I from the Bay Area and it's good to know the history.

[@larryfisher5796]

My Granddad was there I remember as a boy him telling me about it .he was in his middle 20s .he left and make his way to Iowa where he meant my Grandma..

[@EvanMatrix]

The days of the automobiles, the black and white cameras, and the gentlemen in suits and top hats. How things had changed so quickly in just 100 years... :/

[@caroltenge5147]

this is remarkable. Ive run it several times. A gasp in time! Thank you for this gem.

[@poikaa3]

Christchurch in New Zealand is now suffering from this fate, I can only hope for them the best!

[@JonJonesLPM]

Indeed, that is the general consensus. So far, they've been able to narrow it down to sometime in the future. While I say that in slight jest, the reality is that so much advancement has happened in the last century about why and how earthquakes happen, but being able to determine when such events will occur remains very elusive.

[@mariacardenas4665]

I’ve been looking for this video Long Time

[@arevut]

This video made me to find the Market street on the google maps and to pass the route in today SF. It seemed to me that no one building survived since that times till our days.

[@crazeejimmee]

It was actually a reference to "Gilda" (1946), the film with Rita Hayworth.

[@DDay-vv9ec]

Watching those people walking,you just know there in total shock..

[@jhhwild]

I heard Brad Bird (the director of "The Iron Giant" and "The Incredibles") is going to direct a movie based on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. I hope he uses this footage as a reference point for the movie

[@lavalampluva55401]

It is heartbreaking that the people on the left had no idea how dramatically their lives were about to change less than a week later.

[@stevegaines1]

History is amazing. A beautiful video.

[@Insomniac_tv]

Sad seeing beautiful buildings be completely destroyed

[@gysecular3165]

Well I read this book called disasters and the San Francisco earthquake was in that book and it said the next one is around 2106

[@BokuGlack]

Rancid Boss 2.0 most of us will all be dead when it happens

[@orangeedo]

You've gotta be kidding, how can they publish books that say that. These big quakes will always happen during grand solar minimums... in short the west coast is going to be destroyed between and 20 years time. You couldn't pay me to live there.

[@iilxcrazyazn5573]

Well a 6.4 qas yesterday on 4th July and a 6.9 today /:

[@susanklein7448]

I'm curious about all the droves of people walking up Market St from the Ferry Building. Many look like family groups and couples -- I'm guessing some of them were evacuees returning from the East Bay to see what might remain of their homes? Or family members trying to search or reunite with loved ones? In any case, it's counter-intuitive to me that they'd walking back into the city in such large numbers. And I notice many have umbrellas, so I presume it's raining to add insult to injury. Plus most folks are walking on the streetcar track beds the further down Market it gets to the Ferry Building. The streets themselves must have been a muddy, wet mess of bricks and ash. Heart-wrenching.

[@furrymuscle]

amazing. I live in san francisco now and have loved this city for years and years and I forget about this horrible past. I frequent the embarcadero and the area near the ferry building and to see it creep in out of the smoke...well I never look at it quite the same now thats for sure.

[@DavidEntrikin]

So sad to see a happy community gutted.

[@JonJonesLPM]

Indeed. I am struck by the close time frame between the two perspectives. In preparation for the film shoot on the left a lot of promotion was circulated to amplify the activity and showcase the vibrancy and activity of the city, I presume in an effort to make it more marketable attraction to growing industries. Contrast that vibrancy with the results of the tragedy just a few days later, and it's like dark, tragic poetry. Very sad.

[@ShmooyShmoo]

omg the way they drive back then, and stand around in the middle of the street not even taking a step for an oncoming car...

[@mithikx]

The building in question looks like the Call Building (a.k.a Central Tower / Spreckels Building), you do see the base of the building in the Miles Brother footage I believe it's just that the two films were shot at different angles (note the horizon line relative to the other footage). The Call Building is located on 3rd and Market but no longer has the dome as that was removed in 1938.

[@stage3anon508]

Notice how it says "1906" Here's a question for you. What number is S and F in the alphabet? If you added this all up, S would be the 19th and F would be the 6th. 1906 SF Earthquake

[@JonJonesLPM]

+Stage3Anon I have to admit, I had never heard of that specific correlation with regard to the San Francisco earthquake before. Fascinating.

[@RandallGove]

Then I guess you wouldn't want to be in Thousand Oaks, California next year eh?

[@RandallGove]

Randall Gove Or Thousand Palms the year after?

[@RandallGove]

Randall Gove But the Loma Prieta earthquake that happened in 1989 didn't happen in 1716 right? hmm

[@garbageday587]

Stage3Anon. ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED

[@waynebrasler]

I have a very special situation in that at age of three in St. Louis I was remembering and speaking about a previous life as a girl singer in Los Angeles. A not successful singer who lived in a bungalow court with a guy she wasn't married to name Herb who was not good to her. She died of breast cancer in June or July of 1938. I was born in October of 1940, in fact today, October 28. I've talked with people who knew me as a child and they said I sang before I talked but only sang songs made famous by girl singers. And that I avidly followed the hit records charts, but only girl singers. My entire present life has been involved with girl singers and one of them, very famous, said she and her husband had figured out I'd had an experience as a girl singer by around the time I was 15. I just knew too much about being a girl singer, she said. I can't explain any of it, but I do have memories of the 1920s and 30s and probably before and can say life was much like today except much slower and quieter and much of what we think about and talk about today simply wasn't part of the conversation. And that most people didn't have much money and still managed to have nice lives because so much premium was placed on having good friends. I am sure I could be taken back to previous lives, and I know I do have some connection to San Francisco and the great earthquake, but have chosen not to pursue it. I have been to San Francisco four times and the last time was so fraught with supernatural experiences, including one I caught on film right on Market Street, I lost my taste for even thinking about such things.

[@hertzwave8001]

you better not have kicked the bucket

[@VahanNisanian]

Any reason why they reversed the movie on the right for the Prelinger Archives

[@Hendo56]

Looks like at least 3 of the cars are "plants". You see them pass the trolley, then turn around down the road and come back and pass the trolley again and again. Course in 1906 cars were still rare- the Model T didn't come out until 3 years later. But indeed, this is chaos- a mashup of trolleys, horses and automobiles.

[@UkiMalefu]

Some crazy drivers back then. Over 100 years (!) and and that has not changed. How has humankind survived this long?

[@darmay5]

I'm thinking about how all those people would never think of life going on in 2018. None back then probably thought there would ever be a 2018. Just like us, the 1900's seems so hard to believe ever happen.

[@vanessahenry7238]

I heard that the Miles Brothers did also a Film going down Market Street using the same route so to do a side by side comparison. Where is that film?

[@meanbunny4]

Very well done indeed. However, looking at the footage from before the earthquake, I was very surprised with the lack of traffic laws on the roads back in the day; people standing in the middle of the tracks, jumping in front of the trolleys and cars, horses with carriage, bicycles and all heading in different directions.... what a chaos! I know the intent of this documentary is not to focus on the traffic, I just can't help not to appreciate the "caught in the moment" realities of old times.

[@hepzibah4573]

Actually the traffic in that footage was staged, to make the city livelier than it really is. They made the same cars circle the camera several times.

[@wandajames6234]

So eerie.... poor lost souls who died then...

[@hebneh]

In the pre-earthquake film, the same cars drive in front of the camera repeatedly, then just make a u-turn and speed up to come around in front again.

[@jbuell311]

Wow.. There is so much going on in those streets.

[@tiberiousss]

What makes the film poignant is the people we see in it have no idea what was about to befall them just a few days later.

[@dorothydromgoole8040]

Wow, what a difference in the before and after. And all of those people who cross in front of the camera, make you wonder who lived and who died.

[@beerrox711]

one earthquake altered the timeline and its weird to think about.. Enrico Caruso, Jack London would live, a little boy would grow up to found Texas Instruments, a tiny immigrant bank would survive and thrive into Bank of America. Los Angeles would receive the rich and famous and overtake San Francisco as a hub for the elite until Sillicon Valley came along.

[@michaelboyce9373]

To the Left Pre-Quake Right,Post-Quake Quite a Difference! Yikes...RIP To All who lost their lives that fateful,sad day.

[@TheLostDude7]

3:46 why do people always mess around in front of the tracks. Look at that long haired guy... come on now!

[@Exploxer25]

If you ask me it's like the camera man on left knew that this was going to happen in some kinda of weird way like a premonition and thats why he took a long ride down the train tracks to show be4 the fire happened to every one in the world.

[@brianstorm2185]

This video is very insightful looking at how delicate and dangerous nature can be. This should be the standard when depicting a natural disaster and its effects.

[@JonJonesLPM]

Thank you for your comment. Yes, it seems we very rarely consider the possibilities of natural disasters and the impact they can have.

[@back2the80s]

walking in front of trolley and standing in middle. not safe. terribly sad though

[@allisonyoung4285]

Cannot imagine what the people felt after the quake. Glad it's over.👍💌

[@13andid]

I plan on using this as a primary source with a written documentation by Jack London. Thank you!

[@JonJonesLPM]

I'm glad you will find this video useful to you. Good luck in your efforts.

[@TrexsterInNC]

The history of man's magnificent structures is filled with records of their collapse. Sometimes they last 1000 years or more, but sooner or later, Mother Nature takes them out. Earthquakes can happen pretty much anywhere given enough time.

[@amorgutierrez3720]

I feel so bad for San Francisco

[@CarlosMendez-mr5vj]

Me to

[@fedoit]

Amor Gutierrez There is a mobile game "A Trip down Market Street" based on the movie - atripdownmarketstreet.com

[@FlashFizz]

I wonder how much of the poor visibility at right is due to smoke, how much is to to dust and how much is due to fog. It seems that a significant portion is due to smoke as it seems to be emanating from highly localized spots and the weather seems too calm to be blowing much dust around. However, it's too difficult to tell for sure. It seems that some rubble had been swept into piles.

[@jmm1000]

great job - excellent music choice

[@CaptCrewSock]

The way everyone uses the roads it looks as if it’s synchronized chaos.

[@jerryjones7072]

Hello Can you tell us what is the music from?

[@JonJonesLPM]

+Jerry Jones Yes. The music is generated using Sonicfire Pro from SmartSound - www.smartsound.com The song is called "Strange Rapture" (SS_1013)), composed by John Cacavas (ASCAP), published by Soundcast Music (ASCAP), and is licensed to me for production use through Smartsound via their Sonicfire Pro software - as part of the Drama & Documentary album.

[@daisyflowers9334]

It's interesting how the Great Frisco Earthquake parallels a current event of the attack on our Country on Sept 11, 2001. Wall Street the day before would have been a bustle of activity, with Business Men and Women, and many other People going about their daily lives, in the center of Commerce, Wall Street and the Twin Towers. The aftermath of the attack, we see People wandering around in shock, witnessing the devastation of what just happened. We see the same thing in the film after the quake. I love watching those People just going about daily life, and how things looked when my Family lived in the area then, as they do now. Some People were really curious about the camera, and others didn't pay attention at all, and the newsboys being kids were hamming it up for the camera. Just to think in their lifetime, motion pictures would go from this, to what they would see in the 1960's. They would see no horse and buggies, and horse drawn wagons, on main street, but modern cars, television, space exploration, phones, cameras that took instant pictures, feature color films. A paradigm shift in progress and culture.

[@manly427]

But it is awesome. To set such a mood to a very important event that forever changed this country