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Letter "K" » Kevin Starr Quotes
«All things considered, she would have to be the most conspicuous and influential of the first ladies in the history of the state.»
«In my constant reconsideration of California history,»
«For a number of years, I taught an architectural history course for developers in the master of real estate development program at USC and returned, again and again, to this point: namely, that developers, in exercising their decisive influence on the built environment, had to be considered as primary forces in the evolution of California.»
«[The estimated 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. It shook the city in two phases lasting 45 seconds.] City hall? collapsed instantly, ... Facades fell from homes, revealing the furniture within.»
«[The estimated 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. It shook the city in two phases lasting 45 seconds.] City hall collapsed instantly, ... Facades fell from homes, revealing the furniture within.»
«Outside of the Civil War, there had never been an American city devastated like San Francisco was in 1906. You have to go forward 99 years to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to find a major American city that was nearly wiped out.»
«The earthquake cleared out one San Francisco -- which was the dominant place in California -- and replaced it with another. It accelerated the modernization of California.»
«Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset.»
«A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.»