Ep 86 - Shake it like you mean it - The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Today, it is part one of the Great San Francisco disasters of 1906. We talk about the history of San Francisco, how California became a state, immigration and birthright with the United States v Wong Kim Ark, and finally, the 42 seconds of terror as a 7.9 magnitude earthquake jolted the city awake at 5:12 am on April 18, 1906.That was bad, but the fires started almost immediately - we'll cover those next week! An Oral History of "We Built This City," the Worst Song of All Time | GQChinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion ActsHaunted by Houses: On the California Victorian in Fiction | Los Angeles Review of Bookshttps://encyclopedia.densho.org/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark/The Longest Minute - https://www.amazon.com/Longest-Minute-Great-Francisco-Earthquake-ebook/dp/B09Y465G8X Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPodWe would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod  Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: [email protected]