Miraloma Park Mudslide 1942 - Revision history

Ccarlsson at 04:38, 22 May 2025

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	Amy O’Hair, the stellar historian of the Sunnyside neighborhood, wrote in detail about the slide in 2023. Read [https://sunnysidehistory.org/2023/12/07/catastrophe-on-foerster-street-the-deadly-landslide-of-1942/ her article] for a close analysis of the cause and path of the slide, each house and family affected, and the extended relationships between the neighbors. Lots more photos too.		Amy O’Hair, the stellar historian of the Sunnyside neighborhood, wrote in detail about the slide in 2023. Read [https://sunnysidehistory.org/2023/12/07/catastrophe-on-foerster-street-the-deadly-landslide-of-1942/ her article] for a close analysis of the cause and path of the slide, each house and family affected, and the extended relationships between the neighbors. Lots more photos too.

	~~[[Image:View North on Foerster toward Teresita. Dec 6 1942 wnp27.6473.jpg\|792px]]~~

	~~'''View north on Foerster Street towards Teresita after another mudslide, Dec. 6, 1942.'''~~

	~~''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6473''~~

	[[Image:234 Teresita Blvd 1951 wnp58.098.jpg\|792px]]		[[Image:234 Teresita Blvd 1951 wnp58.098.jpg\|792px]]

Ccarlsson at 04:37, 22 May 2025

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	{\| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;"		{\| style="color: black; background-color: #F5DA81;"
	\| colspan="2" \| '''After a rainy winter in 1942, a major mudslide ripped down the southeastern slope of Mt. Davidson and knocked one house off its foundation and killed Mrs. Dora Kammer. The 700 block of Foerster Street was buried, trapping residents in their homes until they were rescued.''		\| colspan="2" \| '''After a rainy winter in 1942, a major mudslide ripped down the southeastern slope of Mt. Davidson and knocked one house off its foundation and killed Mrs. Dora Kammer. The 700 block of Foerster Street was buried, trapping residents in their homes until they were rescued.'''
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Ccarlsson at 04:37, 22 May 2025

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-'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''
+'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''
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 ''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.5611''
-After a rainy winter in 1942, a major mudslide ripped down the southeastern slope of Mt. Davidson and knocked one house off its foundation and killed Mrs. Dora Krammer. The 700 block of Foerster Street was buried, trapping residents in their homes until they were rescued.
+I usually think of Dora Kammer the first week of February. Or when the rains come hard in the city. It’s the first week of February and an “atmospheric river” has hit town, so I have scuttled my plans for this week’s San Francisco Story to give Ms. Kammer and her brother-in-law, Thomas Hall, some space to be remembered.
-[[Image:Foerster St. Slide Feb 6, 1942 wnp26.181.jpg|792px]]
+[[Image:750 Foerster DPW.jpg]]
-'''The house knocked from its foundation in the 700 block of Foerster Street, Feb. 6, 1942.'''
+'''750 Foerster, formally 625 Foerster, in the 1940s.'''
 ''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.181''
 [[Image:View North on Foerster toward Teresita. Dec 6 1942 wnp27.6473.jpg|792px]]
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 ''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp58.098''

Ccarlsson at 22:54, 13 March 2019

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	[[Image:234 Teresita Blvd 1951 wnp58.098.jpg\|792px]]		[[Image:234 Teresita Blvd 1951 wnp58.098.jpg\|792px]]

	'''By 1951, the area was stabilized and this ~~home~~ at 234 Teresita Blvd. characterized the new neighborhood.'''		'''By 1951, the area was stabilized and this church at 234 Teresita Blvd. characterized the new neighborhood.'''

	''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp58.098''		''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp58.098''

Ccarlsson: added category West of Twin Peaks

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added category West of Twin Peaks

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Ccarlsson at 00:35, 28 February 2019

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	''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6473''		''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6473''

			[[Image:234 Teresita Blvd 1951 wnp58.098.jpg\|792px]]

			'''By 1951, the area was stabilized and this home at 234 Teresita Blvd. characterized the new neighborhood.'''

			''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp58.098''


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''' Unfinished History '''

[[Image:Foerster St Slide Feb 1942 wnp27.5611.jpg|792px]]

'''Foerster Street mudslide, February 1942.'''

''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.5611''

After a rainy winter in 1942, a major mudslide ripped down the southeastern slope of Mt. Davidson and knocked one house off its foundation and killed Mrs. Dora Krammer. The 700 block of Foerster Street was buried, trapping residents in their homes until they were rescued.

[[Image:Foerster St. Slide Feb 6, 1942 wnp26.181.jpg|792px]]

'''The house knocked from its foundation in the 700 block of Foerster Street, Feb. 6, 1942.'''

''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.181''

[[Image:View North on Foerster toward Teresita. Dec 6 1942 wnp27.6473.jpg|792px]]

'''View north on Foerster Street towards Teresita after another mudslide, Dec. 6, 1942.'''

''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.6473''

[[Miraloma |Prev. Document]] [[Planing Mill 1920 |Next Document]]

[[category:hills]] [[category:Glen Park]] [[category:1940s]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:Twin Peaks]]