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The Turk Street house of Earl Miles survived the earthquake and the subsequent catastrophic fire but the studio did not. The Miles brothers based their business out of Earl's home, and shot more film of post-earthquake scenes; some of this footage, including that of a second trip down a now devastated Market Street, reemerged in 2016. [2] [3 ...
English: LOC description: "This film, shot from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, is a rare record of San Francisco's principal thoroughfare and downtown area before their destruction in the 1906 earthquake and fire. The filmed ride covers 1.55 miles at an average speed of nearly 10 miles per hour.
The negative was taken by train to the New York office on April 17th, 1906, narrowly saving it from destruction by one day. From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
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On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
In the 1945 film Flame of the Barbary Coast, John Wayne is a cowboy who becomes a successful casino owner on the Barbary Coast just before the 1906 earthquake. In the 1957 Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey, Frank Sinatra starred as a nightclub entertainer who worked at the Barbary Coast nightclub (533 Pacific Avenue).
On Thursday morning, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the town of Petrolia in California. Videos capture the impact of the earthquake.
The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire – Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website; The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire Archived August 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine – Bancroft Library; Mark Twain and the San Francisco Earthquake – Shapell Manuscript Foundation; Several videos of the aftermath – Internet Archive