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Show About the ) earthquake. . . During their interview, the Let-' Let-' termen discussed the recent earth- quake in Los Angeles and their experiences with it. "I've been there since 1950, 1 and this earthquake was different than any of the others they've had in L.A.," said Tony Butala. "This one was sharp, jarring and it lasted for at least a solid minute before it started to roll. The other ones just roll and that's all." "All three of us were sleeping," Jim Pike related, "at our homes throughout the valley. It woke me from sleep and kicked my bed clear across the room. It was really weird waking up in the dark and not being able to turn on the lights. When you go for the door and it moves, you get scared." The quake broke lamps and cracked plaster at Tony's residence. resi-dence. In Jim's home, it destroyed a $200 antique clock. Gary said he saw power transformers trans-formers shorting out when he looked out the window, and "I thought they'd dropped the bomb." He noted that Johnny Carson was doing a show that afternoon, and he stayed up the next night to see what the audience audi-ence did when the earthquake came. |