1906 QUAKE LANDMARK FOUNTAIN TO BE RESTORED.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: April 17, 1998 | Copyright information

A downtown fountain that became a rallying point when the earth shook in 1906 is finally getting a face lift, but not in time for tomorrow's ceremony marking the Great Earthquake and Fire that devastated San Francisco.

Volunteers gathered this week at Lotta's Fountain, where a shrinking band of survivors will meet tomorrow at 5:12 a.m., the moment the earthquake struck 92 years ago.

The volunteers scrubbed the fountain, bailed water and scraped muck from its ...

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