Sutter Hotel, San Francisco

[John Davis]

April 28, 1906, The Sportsmen’s Review, a report of the San Francisco earthquake reads in part as follows: “Our well-known contributor, Capt. A. W. DuBray (‘Gaucho’), was a guest at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, two days previous to the earthquake, but a letter recently received from him indicated his intention of leaving on the following day. His many friends will be glad to learn that he was not in that city at the time of the terrible visitation.”

Another possible fan of the late actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart perhaps? Not too shabby. I have different recollections of SF- didn't qualify for the BOQ at the now closed Presidio- but when we rotated back to the world in the late 1960's- we saw the Flower Power and Hairy Kirishnas (sans John Lennon and Yoko) all over- and we never got to "Hash-Berry" sectors either.

Just saw on the history channel one reason of many for the great devastation from the 1906 quake- No enforced building codes- from about the 1880's boom- then the rupture of the new-fangled gas pipes for the street lamps caused the conflagrations--