06-21-2011, 09:24 PM
cnw1961 Wrote:Larry, thank you.
Koos, I ccould not find any re-inforcements on this building, even in this old pic from the '30s (what a coincidence, eh?): <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gvgarcia/5309666267/sizes/l/in/photostream/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/gvgarcia/5 ... otostream/</a><!-- m -->. I assume it is a concrete building.
In spite of the devastation caused by the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, I don't think any earthquake standards were enacted until the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. I don't know how many people were killed in that quake, but a lot of un-reinforced masonry building had severe damage and a lot of debris ended up as piles of bricks covering the sidewalks of downtown Long Beach. It may have been that because of the fires in San Francisco, that no one noticed the damage to un-reinforced masonry building in S.F.