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Of his over 180 surviving, sharp-focus photographs of San Francisco, probably his most famous image is "San Francisco, April 18th, 1906," which shows a view from Nob Hill, down Sacramento Street. Enormous clouds of smoke ominously approach, buildings' facades have collapse from the quake, and residents stand and sit in the street, in a stupor ...
The 9,880-square-foot (918 m 2) 160-by-48-foot (49 by 15 m) cement-block warehouse was constructed in 1930. [23] The property was purchased in 1988 by Chor Ng, who is linked to 17 other properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. [24]
Kep building collapse Kep, Cambodia: Tourist guesthouse under construction 36 dead, 26 injured [50] 2020 Palmerah West Jakarta four-story building collapse Jakarta, Indonesia: Building 11 injured [51] 2020 Collapse of Xinjia Express Hotel: Quanzhou, Fujian, China Hotel 29 dead, 42 injured 2020 Caprigliola bridge collapse: Caprigliola, Tuscany ...
San Francisco has a searchable online map of 4,900 wood-frame buildings that are or were vulnerable because of a “soft” or poorly supported first story, and it could do the same for concrete ...
The James C. Flood Mansion is a historic mansion at 1000 California Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, USA.Now home of the Pacific-Union Club, it was built in 1886 as the townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th-century silver baron.
(KRON) — A section of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed into the ocean Monday amid pounding waves and an ongoing high surf advisory. Three people went into the water with two having to be rescued ...
A year ago a 12-story oceanfront condo building in Surfside came down with a thunderous roar, leaving a giant pile of rubble and claiming 98 lives — one of the deadliest collapses in U.S ...
Spectators on the roof before the collapse. On the day of the 1900 game, the San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works company had just opened a new building across 15th Street from the stadium. Because the factory was brand new, only one furnace was active that day. The remaining furnaces were not scheduled to start until the following Monday.