Extra, Extra: See San Francisco Before the Big One Struck!

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This is San Francisco on April 14, 1906, the city of William Randolph Hearst and the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Morning Call, the Daily Evening Bulletin, of Jack London and Frank Norris, of the Palace Hotel, of men in bowler hats and three-piece suits, of streetcars, cable cars, horse-drawn wagons, bicycles, of newsboys in caps and great department stores lining Market Street and there — at the very end the road, the Embarcadero and Ferry Building.

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Four days later, at 5:12 a.m., the city changed:

The Ferry Building survived; much else did not. But a new and even more beautiful city rose from the ashes.

Your Sunday morning thoughts on the fleeting and fragile nature of life welcome here.