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[Jerry of San Fran]

I got back from Italy yesterday and it is great to see a lot of dialogue & pictures posted on the Skyscraper site while I was away. I spent a week in Bologna with day excursion to Parma, Ravenna and Padua.

I don't know if the book is in print, but I have one called Denial of Disaster. It is a very large format book with tons of information & pictures of San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake, of the damage after the quake and pictures of the fire. It is a very beautiful book. There were many tall buildings that survived the quake but burned. I worked in one for 15 years which survived the quake - the corner of New Montgomery & Mission Streets. The Rialto Building was dynamited in an attempt to stop the spread of the fire, but it was not brought down, it burned & was rebuilt. I went though a scary shake in the early 1970's in that building - it is about 12 stories tall.