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Show Book captures spirit of great Frisco quake By JOHN OGDEN Chronicle Staff LimH SH00K' THE SKY UN D WiIjam Bronsop Doubleday 1959) Pocket Books 197V p.368 $1.50 am Bronson's objective San Francisco's great I qUuke and fire f 106 o ds the reader with alarmingly ;jed;-8es that recreate the Bro;so"sumsuPt,,sintentionsin J Paragraph: ",n forming this Zi rT tried t0 catch the J' of the day and to record ents Which made up the J and jb aftermath f Mh M,and if entertains you ; e. teling, I will have done nat I wanted." IS Ph0foPhs and prose, c,tV. block by block, leaving you with your tent for a home in Golden Gate Park. Hundreds of buildings and $450 million later, the city dismissed the past with seeming irreverence: "San Francisco was no ancient city. It was the recent creation of the Pioneers and possessed the accumulated store of. ..a couple of generations. Its. ..buildings were not of conspicuous con-spicuous merit or of great value. There was, ...nothing destroyed that cannot be speedily rebuilt." And that is exactly what San Francisco set out to do. In 1915, San Francisco was the site of the Panama-Pacific International In-ternational Exposition celebrating the building of the Panama Canal. "San Franciscans, however, frankly took greater pride and pleasure in the City's rebuilding than in the 'Big Ditch'." |
