Review: Contemporary record of observations
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2013
I live in the SF bay area, so this is of interest to me - the event that shaped 20th century San Francisco culture, geography, commerce and politics. It was good reading, but the narratives jumped around and presumed that the reader knew the layout of 1906 San Francisco streets and neighborhoods. It became confusing as commotion jumped from one area to the next. I also felt that the book skipped the 'human drama' element - how the quake of '06 impacted the average citizen during the quake, the fires and the rebuilding of the west coast's greatest city at the time.