Mayor Alioto's Earthquake Party
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Mayor Alioto's Earthquake Party
April 18, 1969

The Official Program of the Earthquake Party

Invocation 

Temple Emanu-el
The Anthem  Golden Gate Park Band
Earthquake scene from San FranciscoCourtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer
"The Damndest Finest Ruins"A beautiful poem executed by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Arrival of Fire and Police BrigadesChief's Murray and Cahill
Re-kindled MemoriesChief William Murray, SFFD
Recollections of '06Chief Thomas Cahill, SFPD
RemarksCol. Thomas McMahon, Presidio
PoemBrother Antoninus, St. Albert's College
Some ObservationsJack Rosenbaum, SF Examiner
What Are We Doing Here?Paul Speegle
How to Live With Your FaultsDr. Don Tocher, Earthquake Mechanism Laboratory
Next Year.. Lotta's Fountain!Senator Thomas Maloney
SAN FRANCISCO!!!Soloist Paul Walti, the Band and EVERYBODY
BenedictionRev. G. L. Bedford, Macedonia Baptist Church

It could never have been done without:

U.S. Army, Art Commission, Earthquake McGoon's Turk Murphy, Fior d'Italia, SF Fire Department, Golden Gate Park Band, Golden Rain cast, Hunt's Doughnuts, Lamplighters, Harry McCune Sound, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, U.S. Navy, Photo and Sound, SF Police Department, SF Public Works Dept., San Francisco Sponsors, Syufy Enterprises, The Wax Museum, Western Electric Co., 
and all of you who wanted to remember. 

The Inscription in the Rotunda City Hall