Here’s a history lesson for all the people saying San Francisco is ‘over’ [San Francisco Chronicle]
Jan. 27—The exodus from San Francisco began swiftly after the 1906 fire and earthquake. With most of downtown still smoldering, thousands of citizens bought one-way tickets to any city that wasn’t San Francisco.
But barely two months later, The Chronicle reported, they were coming back in droves. The city was, in fact, not over.
“A large majority of (return ticket requests) are from men who left in such a mad haste at the first sound of alarm,” The Chronicle reported on June 20, 1906, interviewing railway officials. “They are complaining that the conditions are much worse in the East than they are out here.”