You Live in S.F. and Your Home Was Built in 1906: True or False?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Ask around in the more historic parts of San Francisco and you’ll find a good number of the homes were built in 1906. Or so people have been told. Reported by Penny Nelson. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	This is Bay Curious, I'm Olivia Alan Price.
0:07.0	When my wife and I started looking for a house,
0:15.0	we noticed that the date that it was built was almost always 1906.
0:19.0	That's one of our listeners, Scott Sharp.
0:21.0	And we ended up buying a condo in North Beach and our records all say 1906.
0:26.3	1906.
0:27.3	A big year in San Francisco history, a date that is common on a lot of old deeds, a date that is also oftentimes a lie.
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0:54.7	Scott had questions for us, like this one.
0:57.6	What proportion of houses in our neighborhood and other neighborhoods
1:00.9	actually have been around for much longer than we have records for.
1:04.0	Scott means which ones were actually here before 1906.
1:11.0	At the time, San Francisco is thought of like the Paris of America.
1:17.0	The city's mint holds a third of the nation's gold supply, and City Hall is the biggest public building west of Chicago.
1:24.4	Then on April 18, 1906, a massive earthquake
1:28.1	rips through the city.
1:30.0	Fires burn.
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