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Dang. In 2006 my wife and I attended what was widely expected to be the last ever annual event in San Francisco where survivors of the 1906 earthquake gathered at a fire hydrant at Market Street to commemorate the day and time that it hit. There were a decent number of folks there, most of course too young to have remembered too much of the events that day, but a few who did.
But this post is a reminder that every single person who was there (or anywhere) in 1906 is now gone.
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My great-grandfather landed at Ellis Island in 1906 (at the age of 19). He lived to be 102 and I really enjoyed knowing him. But he and every single other person who was there is long gone.
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Damn!
This person was nearing 40 by the end of WW2! Let that sink in.
The things she must of seen along the way….
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