Crescent City & its Devastating 1964 Tsunami

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2023
  • History Hunters' Jeff & Sarah visit Crescent City to talk about the devastation of the March 1964 tidal wave that washed into downtown, taking the lives of some of its citizens and much of the business district.
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  • @georgemccoy219
    @georgemccoy219 7 месяцев назад +94

    Another great episode of History Hunters. I visited Crescent City back in the early 90's and was able to get out to the light house. One of the stories the docent told us about the sunami of '64 was that the light-house keeper woke up early in the am before sunrise and was mystified why he couldn't hear the pounding of the ocean surf. The silence was deafening so to speak. He went outside and all the water was gone from the harbor. He looked out as far as he could see and all he saw was sandy beach. Apparently, this was the first phase of the sunami, drawing the water completely back for several miles, then pushing it back as a huge wall of water. I'll never forget hearing about that. Thank you for your great coverage of this tragic event.

    • @rkatrails
      @rkatrails 7 месяцев назад +4

      The island that the lighthouse is on is so small, I'm surprised the tsunami didn't roll right over it. Apparently the lighthouse keeper lived to tell the story. I wonder if he was still inside the building when the tsunami hit?

    • @oldermusiclover
      @oldermusiclover 6 месяцев назад +2

      i'm surprised that they dont have a bridge out to the lighthouse

    • @mrshady8111
      @mrshady8111 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@oldermusicloverI grew up there and honestly there's not much need for a bridge. The lighthouse is maybe a 2 minute walk from the nearest shore and is accessible every day at low tides, shit even with a tide if you don't mind getting wet.

    • @oldermusiclover
      @oldermusiclover 6 месяцев назад

      @@mrshady8111 thought with things being accessible to those who can't walk maybe they might put in one was the access to the lighthouse always like that?

    • @mrshady8111
      @mrshady8111 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@oldermusiclover ADA compliant access is a very valid point. As far as I know it's always been the way it is, just a bit of sand and rock separating the lighthouse from the shore. What's keeping the city from putting one in is the general lack of funds, we spend an exhorbitant amount on road work and other public projects.

  • @ks-sp9bq
    @ks-sp9bq 6 месяцев назад +50

    Damage also occurred all the way down in San Francisco Bay. Dad's commercial fishing boat capsized when the bow was wedged under the dock at the extreme low of the 'tidal wave'. Boat (50 foot wood salmon fisher) totaled. I was 11 years old. Devastated the family. No income for many months....then Dad finally got a Union job on the Tugboats, and clawed our home away from foreclosure. I learned a lot about life from this incident.

    • @hi-et1oq
      @hi-et1oq 6 месяцев назад

      I 💡 natural wants to push these viruses call humans out of there😂😂😂😂

  • @twalatka
    @twalatka 7 месяцев назад +36

    My Grandma lived in Crescent City, CA until she died. She lived through this. Heard about it my whole life. So glad you covered this event.

    • @user-ji9ox2yh9e
      @user-ji9ox2yh9e 28 дней назад

      I am curious if you know the history of the Crescent Beach Motel? I have wondered if it existed when the 64 tsunami hit and was rebuilt or did it not exist then? Thank you for any help. I have tried looking up history for that motel and am not having any luck.

  • @sherrie6492
    @sherrie6492 5 месяцев назад +5

    My stepfather was Colonel in the Air force. He was stationed in Anchorage Alaska when this happened.
    He was the commander of a base on Fire Island.. It took about 5 days to find out if he was alright. My husband and I were living in Medford, Oregon at the time. About a hour drive to Crescent City. My mom and younger sisters and brother were temporarily living with my grandmother in Medford, while waiting to be able to join him in Alaska.Thet had been due to leave that month, but we're delayed due to the quake. It was months before we could go to Crescent City.. We had a friend in Brookings, Oregon. Normally, you took a brief jaunt thru California, driving thru Crescent City and back into Oregon and Brookings. Had to take a round about way for awhile. Driving north on the coast highway now days you see many tsunami warning areas.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  5 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks for sharing! Earthquakes can ruin life without warning along the pacific rim as we saw in California in 1989 with the Loma Prieta quake. We did notice all the tsunami warning signs that marked low lying areas of Highway 1.

  • @kevinwright-ic4gy
    @kevinwright-ic4gy 7 месяцев назад +19

    This was the first natural disaster I recall as a child. In Sacramento, it was front page news for a week or so, and it taught me about the area, and I moved to a tiny town nestled in the Big Trees behind Crescent City two years ago. I'm a history buff, and a 79 year old neighbor lent me a fascinating magazine commemorating the tsunami's 10 year anniversary. To say this event had a profound impact on the people who were here would be an understatement. The story of it is everywhere around town. My neighbor, a lifelong resident of the city (and former lighthouse keeper) says he is quite comfortable living where he is now, 10 miles inland behind a ridge..

  • @vf12497439
    @vf12497439 7 месяцев назад +11

    The angle of the coastline along Crescent City made the tsunami impact stronger coming from the Alaskan direction. My home town of Florence Oregon got a tsunami but it was much less destructive and was under 5’ in height. We get 30’+ waves during winter storms here so…… my mother told me she stood on the Hyway 101 bridge to see a 3’ wave run up the Siuslaw River.

  • @irishgip71
    @irishgip71 7 месяцев назад +27

    Thank you for the History Lesson. Wish YOU were my history teacher. I would’ve passed.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +9

      Wow, thanks! I have often said history is being taught by the wrong people…people who aren’t into history.

    • @dmzabo3914
      @dmzabo3914 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@jbenziggy, Jeff I'm in 💯% agreement with that statement! 😢

    • @davidniehaus202
      @davidniehaus202 7 месяцев назад

      Jeff would you fulfill my request by visiting the grave of John philip sousa please and you are a sweet kind guy on youtube 🦃🦃

    • @jerryloufretz1797
      @jerryloufretz1797 7 месяцев назад +1

      I remember. Worked for the Alaska Communication System.

  • @clinthowe7629
    @clinthowe7629 7 месяцев назад +14

    Both of my parents and my older brothers went through the Alaska earthquake, my dad was running a road grader, trying to drive it over a berm rocking the grader back and forth when he looked up and saw the trees swaying almost hitting the ground, he put it in neutral and stuck his head out the window of the grader and it was just idling as quietly as can be, yet rocking back and forth violently he went to his car and scanned the dial on his radio, he said he didn’t hear anything but static, he said it felt like I was the last man on Earth. all the water wells in that part of Alaska were stirred up and pumping dirty water for several days, grass mats growing on lake bottoms broke loose and floated to the surface turning lakes into swamps, other places land subsided and was inundated by the Cook inlet, killing whole forests.

  • @deanchapman6425
    @deanchapman6425 7 месяцев назад +10

    I grew up in Fort Bragg, where we received harbor damage from the same surname that damaged the harbor and even put the Coast Guard cutter on the bottom of the harbor the pushed it into the upper mooring basin when the wall of water came back in. My uncle lost his 60' salmon trawler when water was sucked out of the harbor and was destroyed on the jetty a half mile away. The earthquake was bad, but very few buildings were destroyed. I guess we were lucky. Thank you for bringing back a memory of my childhood.

    • @cydkriletich6538
      @cydkriletich6538 6 месяцев назад +1

      I was 13 yrs. old when this happened and my family lived in Marin County, just north of San Francisco. I babysat for a young couple in town. Her mother and brother were killed in the 1964 Crescent City tsunami. The mother and her husband owned a small shop of some sort in town. Sad to say that the 3 of them (husband, wife and their teenage son) survived the first wave. But being unfamiliar with the nature of tsunamis, the mom and son left their place of safety to return to their business. Then the next wave struck. My brother now lives about 15 miles inland from Crescent City. The little coastal town has never really fully recovered from this tsunami. It is a very depressed town these days. Thank you for this walk down memory lane.

  • @BarryBear58
    @BarryBear58 7 месяцев назад +9

    Great story about crescent City and the 64 tidal wave.
    I've been to crescent City many times it's one of my favorite places in California.
    The year 1964 was very hard on Northern California.
    Besides the tidal wave there was massive flooding in that part of Northern California and Oregon.
    I lived on a farm on the outskirts of Vallejo California and I was 6 years old in 1964.
    I remember the flood and I also remember seeing the giant fire that burned a good part of the Northern Napa valley all the way to Santa Rosa.
    It rained so hard that winter the little creek on our farm turned into a raging river.
    1964 was quite a year in California

    • @dudleyFudpucker
      @dudleyFudpucker Месяц назад

      It was also the year that Gene Mauch steered the Phillies to 2nd place with a ten game losing street to lose the pennant to the St. Louis Cardinals. Cards went on to win the world series. Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game in the summer of 1964 vs the NY Mets. I was 11 years old and was listening to my transistor radio about midnight in bed when the 1964 Earth Quake and tsunami hit Alaska and the water came into Crescent City. My cousins and uncles lived in Crescent City at that time and still do.

  • @KaskadiaJackassWatch
    @KaskadiaJackassWatch 7 месяцев назад +6

    I didn't realize the Crescent City tsunami was that bad. My parents lived in Anchorage during the quake, my mom pregnant with my sister. Said there was a 200 foot crevice that opened up outside their front door. After my sister was born, they moved to Seattle to get way from the quake & aftershocks, only to be hit with the Seattle quake of 65.

  • @nadurkee46
    @nadurkee46 7 месяцев назад +6

    Thank you for the history. I had a student move into my classroom in Rio Vista, CA from Crescent City just following that tsunami devastation. His father was a commercial fisherman and he relocated his family soon after this happened. My cousin was living in Anchorage and sitting in a waiting room at her doctor’s appointment when they earthquake hit. She watched as two blocks in front of the doctor’s office the earth opened up and swallowed whatever businesses were at the center. Her family immediately relocated to Ohio following that quake.
    My son’s family lived in Crescent City during the 2011 Japan earthquake which sent another tidal wave to wash out the boats and the pier. He has since relocated to Arizona.

    • @FloozieOne
      @FloozieOne 6 месяцев назад

      I suppose Ohio is safe but Arizona is never going to have a problem, there's no water there at all.

  • @stevewhalen6973
    @stevewhalen6973 6 месяцев назад +8

    Quaint little seaside town. My heart felt condolences for all the troubles they've had to deal with and respect for their tenacity and determination to restore and rebuild 👍

  • @rhondaz356
    @rhondaz356 7 месяцев назад +11

    This was so interesting, but tragic. A 9.2 magnitude earththquake is almost hard to imagine! **Those poor people, in both places. I know it began in Alaska, but the devastation it produced so far away, shows its strength.Those pictures tell the horrific tale. Thanks so much, Jeff, for sharing this. 🌊❤️‍🩹

  • @161papa
    @161papa 7 месяцев назад +5

    I had never heard about this tsunami. Thanks for the history lesson. I can always count on History Hunters for an interesting Sunday.

  • @miZZW
    @miZZW 7 месяцев назад +2

    Wish you two made it across to the lighthouse ,such a beautiful beach scene 👍

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah we were bummed! I got to visit it in 1993 but not this time!

  • @dano8203
    @dano8203 7 месяцев назад +9

    I couldn’t imagine how scary this must have been. 21 feet high on the last wave. I’m surprised anything survived this Tsunami. I wonder how the headstones in the cemetery held up? How fast was the water moving?
    I can see why this community is in poverty, cyclones and tsunamis. People moving out & on.
    History seems to repeat itself there.

  • @larrymiller8210
    @larrymiller8210 7 месяцев назад +9

    Thanks to you and Sarah. Never really knew about this city. Knew about Alaskan earthquake. Thanks for the history lesson again!

  • @davidmayhew8083
    @davidmayhew8083 2 месяца назад +1

    Your archival material is excellent. Never confuse a tsunami with a tidal wave. Two very different things.

  • @8309barbie
    @8309barbie 6 месяцев назад +2

    I remember my dad saying that the first couple of streets closest to the ocean in Anchorage we’re actually sunk underwater and are still there to this day.

  • @theburtseoni
    @theburtseoni 7 месяцев назад +5

    I sure do appreciate your channel and all the places you visit and the history 'lessons' that goes with the visits!

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      Our pleasure! Thank you!

  • @wbl5649
    @wbl5649 6 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing not more people perished. Ive been to Crescent City...love it

  • @marybears5533
    @marybears5533 5 месяцев назад +2

    As a former Alaskan I’ve seen dozens of photos from there and have heard story after story about the quake from people who lived there then. And I have certainly heard stories about the tsunami hitting this city but nothing as extensive as you have shared and I have never seen photos. Thanks for the info

  • @melindagordonbeck8958
    @melindagordonbeck8958 7 месяцев назад +8

    Excellent as usual! Thanks Jeff & Sarah for this content! We really miss the Northern California coast! This event is just a fading memory for some. Great job! Your biggest Tennessee (formerly California) fans! I can’t tell you how much my heart aches for the Pacific Ocean… *sigh*

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      Sounds like you guys need to plan a trip to California in 2023! Thank you for being our biggest fans in Tennessee!

    • @melindagordonbeck8958
      @melindagordonbeck8958 7 месяцев назад

      @@jbenziggy ♥️

    • @kimberlyperrotis8962
      @kimberlyperrotis8962 7 месяцев назад

      I found I just couldn’t leave this coast. I went to grad school in the midwest and I pined for it, and sourdough bread🙂

  • @heatherjacobson8327
    @heatherjacobson8327 3 месяца назад +1

    My mom's family is from Crescent City. She was in high school when this happened. My grandfather worked for Caltrans at the time and ran a shovel during the clean up. His cousin owned a gas station and rode out the event in a car on a lift in the garage of the station.

  • @hillcountry871
    @hillcountry871 6 месяцев назад +1

    I have visited Crescent City several times, It's a beautiful area, I love it!!!

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  6 месяцев назад +1

      I totally agree!

  • @WayneKline
    @WayneKline 7 месяцев назад +9

    Thank you Jeff & Sarah for another fascinating history lesson. You guys certainly had a fantastic summer crisscrossing the country, well done. Have a great Sunday and week ahead.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +3

      Our pleasure!

    • @janisoconnor6881
      @janisoconnor6881 7 месяцев назад +3

      The tsunami on Japan flowed 5 miles inland. Good job you guys.

  • @darinandersen104
    @darinandersen104 7 месяцев назад +4

    Another Excellent story, thank you Jeff!

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      Thanks for listening!

  • @susanpeterson8529
    @susanpeterson8529 7 месяцев назад +3

    My goodness, what terrible things can happen with weather. They were completely at the mercy of wind and water. I had no idea Thank you Jeff

  • @maryt2887
    @maryt2887 6 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for this look back in history. I was a senior in high school on the East coast, and remember hearing about the earthquake, but not the tsunamis. This is a reminder to be “better safe than sorry,” and heed the warnings. Very sad that Crescent City is a poverty area-it looks like it could be a nice tourist destination.

    • @teaves8251
      @teaves8251 5 месяцев назад

      My family and I go there often. Its not too bad.

  • @douglasmcbryan3705
    @douglasmcbryan3705 7 месяцев назад +1

    We love Crescent City. We go to Sea Cruise every October. I had no idea about the other disasters there. We were hit in British Columbia by the 1964 tsunami also. Nancy

  • @Jerkasoid
    @Jerkasoid 6 месяцев назад +3

    Lived in Cresent City, CA for a month. Windy, right at sea level. I remember this well. In Eureka, CA was a flood everywhere also in 2964! EEL river was at an all time high flood stage. One man was in a bar & water just wooshed him out in Crescent City!

    • @Jerkasoid
      @Jerkasoid 6 месяцев назад +1

      Woops flood occured in 1964.

    • @baguilar3686
      @baguilar3686 3 месяца назад

      1964 was the year of the Christmas Flood- it devastated communities from Washington down to California.

  • @nadinemoen
    @nadinemoen 6 месяцев назад +1

    I love love Cresent City. ❤

  • @peanut_trucker
    @peanut_trucker 7 месяцев назад +3

    Wow never knew Alaska had the biggest earthquake. 300 thousand to clean up in 1964 is 2.9 million in today's money. What a great story thanks for sharing Jeff and Sarah.

  • @swansfan6944
    @swansfan6944 7 месяцев назад +4

    Im amazed that more than 12 people didn’t lose their lives that day.
    RIP to those unfortunate 12 people. The terror 😬 that town must have felt. ❤️Jodie 🇦🇺

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, it is very surprising to learn that there were very few casualties for the amount of damage that was done. I guess when people saw the waves finally arriving, they hightailed it to dry ground.

    • @joekulik999
      @joekulik999 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@jbenziggy I think that the narrator said that this town only had about 6600 people living there. So 12 out of 6600 people is a lot of people in terms of percentage.

  • @lindawoody8501
    @lindawoody8501 6 месяцев назад +2

    My Great Aunts and Uncle were living just outside of town (one Auntie was a former teacher in town) and described the mayhem of the tsunami. Fortunately their area was too far inland so they were spared damage personally. I was there visiting them with my parents, a few months after, and it was terrible in town still.

  • @jaimeramos737
    @jaimeramos737 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great documentary! I was born and raised in California and this was a great history lesson i never heard of until now-and ill be 50 next year. Thanks for the education.

  • @NormaHird
    @NormaHird 7 месяцев назад +5

    Another video that the two of you have so professionally researched. I only follow two specific youtube vlogs. Yours is the first one that I follow. The two of you have taken me on many journeys. Thank you for that.

  • @pookah53
    @pookah53 3 месяца назад +1

    I was born and raised in Crescent City and witnessed this event and the immediate aftermath. Our house was just a few blocks above the run-up (where the water stopped), and my dad and I went downtown about 2:30AM just after the last wave to see what had happened. Of course, now we know the sensible thing to do would have been to go to higher ground and stay there for at least several hours in case another and bigger wave was coming. My mom took 4 of the photos of the aftermath that you used several times in the video, and the 1925 photos of the waterspout damage are also from my family collection. I've posted them online in a few places and you are welcome to use them - I'm just giving myself a little credit where it is due. The old house in the photo that appears at 6:03 minutes in and again at 6:42 minutes was where my grandfather was born in 1889. Back then it was the home of the town midwife, and many babies were born in it in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Just one little bit of the physical history that got wiped out that night. And BTW, the name of the county is pronounced "Del Nort" and not "Del Nor-tay." This pronunciation may have come from the particular dialect spoken by early Portuguese settlers.

    • @michaelchristian7824
      @michaelchristian7824 2 месяца назад

      My uncle was Lyle Griffin...the CC Fire Chief at the time this tsunami hit....His house survived but has been replaced by the Home Depot parking lot...Asbury's Trucking is gone as well.....Spent many summers there

  • @juliogonzales5441
    @juliogonzales5441 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great sad story 😢thanks Jeff

  • @superbee-di5tp
    @superbee-di5tp 7 месяцев назад +1

    History was my favorite class on High School. It's the only class I maintained a grade above 90.

  • @terryeustice5399
    @terryeustice5399 7 месяцев назад +1

    Jeff that was some real natural disasters on the Cresent City. Had no Idea . A great lesson and historical video. Thank you for your work.
    💯👍👊

  • @philipcallicoat3147
    @philipcallicoat3147 7 месяцев назад +1

    Good job... Tragic and heartbreaking 💔🙏☝️🕊️

  • @pameladonnelson2093
    @pameladonnelson2093 7 месяцев назад +2

    My Aunt Dorothy lived in Anchorage Alaska at the time and came home just 15 minutes before the earthquake. I still have the letter she wrote to my mother after the earthquake. I didn’t know about the tsunami in California. We lived in Iowa back then. Thank you for this information.

  • @anthonybaroni3285
    @anthonybaroni3285 7 месяцев назад +1

    I visited Crescent City two years ago. I didn't realize the city has taken such a beating for the last 100 years?!

  • @skimmer8774
    @skimmer8774 7 месяцев назад +1

    Before and after photos are awsome. Its a pity people become complacent with warning sirens but we do. Those tsunamis are so powerful.

  • @bobcavalli
    @bobcavalli 6 месяцев назад

    Wow! This is one of my earliest memories. I was 3 years old. My father commanded the radar station in Requa. I remember driving through the redwoods. I had my head turned up; the height of the redwoods always mesmerized me.
    We got into Cresent City and I remember turning my gaze to the harbor but there was nothing from the highway to the harbor. It was flat and muddy.
    I then saw fishing boats lying to my left close to the highway. I remember thinking 'Why did they park their boats up here?'
    The mind of a child. It's so surreal to see this Cresent City film now.

  • @nancynorton9119
    @nancynorton9119 7 месяцев назад +2

    I have a friend that moved there in recent years and she love it but I don’t know if I would have the courage to live there with all the disasters that happen there. Thank you so much for bringing this history to us because I had no idea how devastating the weather had been to that area.

  • @MzzzNettie
    @MzzzNettie 7 месяцев назад +1

    This is interesting, just a few weeks ago our daughter was visiting and we took her over to the coast in Brookings, and we were talking about Crescent City getting hit by tsunamis. I'm going to have to send her this video.

  • @robertforrest7956
    @robertforrest7956 7 месяцев назад +3

    As a matter of fact, my cousins lived in Crescent City and we were visiting them when the wave came in. Thier house was on the bluffs so we watched it roll in. What an awesome sight!!! My cousins worked at Seaside hospital and her husband was the past postal master for the area. Needless to say, we didn't get back home to Requa CA till the next day. I remember it all so clearly from back then.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      Were you folks scared from that wave hitting their town?!

    • @robertforrest7956
      @robertforrest7956 7 месяцев назад

      @@jbenziggy Yes, but where my cousins house sat was much higher and overlooked the ocean not the harbor. It was a huge mess. Then that same year came the 64 flood that took out a lot of Klamath, and the highway 101 bear bridge. We lived in Requa CA which is at the mouth of the Klamath River, it to sat upon a hill overlooking the river.

  • @serenity2832
    @serenity2832 7 месяцев назад +4

    Wow, I didn't know anything like this happened in CA! We live in the Central Coast of CA. I remember hearing of a tsunami warning after first moving here. We ran for the hills, literally, and stayed the night at a hotel about 30 minutes from town, lol! I'd love if you'd cover topics in the Central Coast. Thank you so much for sharing!

  • @RabidSnot
    @RabidSnot 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank You Jeff & Sarah for another very interesting episode of History Hunters on one of my fave places in Northern California, Crescent City,Calif. the city installed the break waters in 1957...? Lot of Good it did em in 1964. Main reason I don't live in Eureka or the Crescent city area is I don't feel like going for a swim in the very cold water there but I still do enjoy going there for a visit once in a while. I'm so close but yet far enough away so I don't need to swim home after a few at the local tavern. So many cool old classic cars and buildings destroyed by Mother Nature, Again. Dang it.

  • @webchuck1
    @webchuck1 7 месяцев назад +4

    Hello Jeff and Sarah, Thanks for sharing this story and history. How sad it was for the people who lost their lives. Again, thanks for what you do. Have a wonderful day!

  • @maureengill6031
    @maureengill6031 7 месяцев назад +1

    What an interesting story, Jeff! I especially enjoy your longer trips, by yourself or with Sara. Thank you for your detailed research and background music. Your story on Patrick Duffy was very unique! He could have answered your question. Your cheekbones and eyes resemble his as a young man. You’re still good looking! Can’t say the same for Patrick! Take care!

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you for the compliment!

  • @87fxgts
    @87fxgts 4 месяца назад +1

    Good story. I worked for the California Conservation Corp at Del Norte center in the early and mid 90's and lived in Cresent City for a bit afterwards.

  • @theHotpointHoodlum
    @theHotpointHoodlum 6 месяцев назад +1

    I’ve driven through crescent city dozens of times and had no idea the history. Thanks

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  6 месяцев назад

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @granthenderson5240
    @granthenderson5240 7 месяцев назад +1

    Hey Jeff and Sarah thanks for taking the time to come my town. You guys did a great job telling are history of tsunami. There is alot of history here. I hope you come back soon. Good job guys keep it up.

  • @gerrymaitland9799
    @gerrymaitland9799 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for sharing this story. I have stayed there on a few motorcycle trips. I didn't know the details of the tsunami before. Thanks for filling in the blanks...

  • @susangilland599
    @susangilland599 7 месяцев назад +1

    When I was in grade school we had an assembly and the speaker was an Alaskan earthquake survivor, I found it fascinating. Today was the first time, hearing how far and wide the damages were. Thank you History hunters.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      Thanks, Susan! California is earthquake country all its own! Our part of California is relatively safe from fault lines!

  • @carolynnaumann2306
    @carolynnaumann2306 7 месяцев назад +1

    I remember this, I was 14. My aunt & uncle lost their home also, they lost everything but their lives. We had moved 2 years prior. I’ve never seen this, very interesting ! Thank you.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      That's always tragic when someone loses their home. I appreciate you sharing!

  • @mov1ngforward
    @mov1ngforward 7 месяцев назад +1

    Always great content, Jeff and Sarah!
    I met a woman at work once, years ago, she told me she had been in the earthquake in Alaska in 1964. When I saw the title and started watching, it went through my mind but I dismissed it. I was only a kid and never heard of either disaster.

  • @stevemccoy8138
    @stevemccoy8138 7 месяцев назад +1

    I don't think I would live there, that same disaster is likely to happen again. 😢 I had no idea that this happened. Thanks for Sharing. 😊

  • @mtacoustic1
    @mtacoustic1 7 месяцев назад +1

    Visited the area in 2010 and was amazed at the long, flat beaches at low tide in the area. No wonder there was nothing to slow the tsunami.

  • @greggwatkinsjr.4308
    @greggwatkinsjr.4308 7 месяцев назад +2

    Wow, sad and scary! Thankyou Jeff & Sarah for the video to share it's history. I always enjoy learning from you.🙂

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      Our pleasure! Thank you!

  • @nickpaz2421
    @nickpaz2421 7 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent video and historical facts that I was not aware of. Thanks for doing this.

  • @tammybarrett7650
    @tammybarrett7650 7 месяцев назад

    My beautiful Man ,was born and raised in Crescent city,and so he resides there laid to rest,gone to young, RIP.Robert W.NEWTON ,when i see all.the beautiful.scenes there ,the beach,the lighthouse,the redwoods,the jetty, that was all his turf,it takes me to a sweeter place ,in the memories of my mind ❤️ 💙 ♥️, My one and only LOVE ❤️

  • @johnsilva9139
    @johnsilva9139 7 месяцев назад +2

    In 1964 I was 10 years and living in NYC when the Alaska earthquake and subsequent Tsunami happened. I was fascinated by the whole event. As an adult I traveled up and down the west coast 5 or six times and visited Crescent City. Very beautiful coastal scenery to drive through. I always wondered why Crescent City got hit so hard by the Tsunami when the rest of the west coast seemed largely spared. My own theory is that Front Street, and what was the downtown area, was right on the harbor, probably only about 5 feet above high tide. Most other places didn't seem to be so vulnerably exposed to the ocean.

    • @PCSPounder
      @PCSPounder 7 месяцев назад

      There’s a few cities on the Oregon coast that I wouldn’t want to be in… if the earthquake took place in the southern curve of the Aleutians. Or just where the Juan deFuca plate hits the continental plate. Seaside, northern Oregon coast… most people vacation on a peninsula with maybe a handful of bridges over the Necanicum River. Only a couple roads really go south towards 101, and 101 a little further south would be in at least as much trouble.
      Crescent City is situated in a spot that is “northwest-facing,” so it’s likely to get a direct shot from a shockwave out of Anchorage. Something coming from Southern California or Hawaii would be far less likely to be problematic.

  • @lisaburns2117
    @lisaburns2117 7 месяцев назад +1

    I had not heard of this town or the tidal wave. Thanks for sharing this story. I love your details. I bet Sarah was disappointed not to go see the lighthouse.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      Thanks for watching! I too was disappointed!

  • @martindriver6026
    @martindriver6026 7 месяцев назад +1

    Gosh. What devastation that town experienced. I seen some good collectors items in those pictures some were the gas signs and some Chevy cars. As always you did a nice job at presenting this week's " History Hunters"

  • @glenncourtney4876
    @glenncourtney4876 7 месяцев назад +1

    I grew up in Humboldt County and remember my one friend's dad say he was alive because his parents and his friends parents wouldn't let him and his friends go down to beach and watch the tsunami in 1964, they were teenagers. I remember driving by Crescent Beach on 101 right after the 2011 tsunami and seeing the solid wall of driftwood right up to the fog line on the beach side.

  • @vickinoland4121
    @vickinoland4121 4 месяца назад

    I remember that event in 1964. Thanks for the visuals and story

  • @lotusdolphin
    @lotusdolphin 7 месяцев назад +1

    Again, Jeff you covered part of California history that I didn’t know of. We lived through it but don’t remember it. You did a great job covering it. Thank you. Your hometown girl. 💜🤟🏻✌🏻🐬🇺🇸

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      Send like we are in the best part of the state as we are far removed from the disasters! Let’s hope it stays that way!

  • @Carolesoriginalpieces
    @Carolesoriginalpieces 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for the history lesson 👏🏻👏🏻!!

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  6 месяцев назад

      You bet! Thanks!

  • @MCW1955
    @MCW1955 7 месяцев назад

    Another excellent video. Thanks for digging up all those old photos. Boy, Crescent City sure had its share of disasters. Thanks again.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      It sure did! Area there is too low which makes it prone to tidal waves!

  • @joelhurley2678
    @joelhurley2678 7 месяцев назад +2

    Great story, Jeff, I've never heard this one before, so that was very interesting. The tsunami that hit there in 2011. I wasn't aware that California had gotten hit. Thanks for sharing, and a great story as usual.

  • @helenpomerleau6455
    @helenpomerleau6455 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for covering this event. The people who live in that county call it Del Nort. The drop the "e"

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      Why do they do that?

    • @helenpomerleau6455
      @helenpomerleau6455 7 месяцев назад

      Who knows? When moved there in1995 I quickly learn how they pronounce it.@@jbenziggy

  • @griffhenshaw5631
    @griffhenshaw5631 7 месяцев назад +1

    Never knew much about cresent city....thx

  • @briannave7326
    @briannave7326 7 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting video. I lived in Grants Pass, Or. for about 8 years and we went to Crescent City many times. I didn’t realize the tsunami was that bad.

  • @Lwah0812
    @Lwah0812 7 месяцев назад +2

    How weird to come across this video, we were just there the week of October 24 for our anniversary. We had spent the night there 9 years ago and we wanted to go back so we went this year. Our trip was cut short because of airline delays and we lost some sightseeing time. We loved it so much we are going again next year for our 20 year anniversary and are going to stay at the hotel we stayed at in 2014. This time we stayed at a hotel just on the other side of where the big foot statue is but we like the other hotel much better. I wish I could have seen this video before we went so I could look out for some of the stuff you mentioned, I’ll watch it again before we go next year. I do say that I did get some pretty epic night pictures of the lighthouse from our hotel. Thank you for sharing the info of Crescent City, now I know all those signs of tsunami zones are pretty serious. I would absolutely love to live there.

  • @terrychapman8460
    @terrychapman8460 7 месяцев назад +2

    Another very interesting video. I certainly remember the Alaskan earthquake but did not hear the story of Cresant City. Those folks who stayed, rebuilt and continued to live there are a hearty bunch!

  • @chrisbutler176
    @chrisbutler176 4 месяца назад

    Great job Jeff !! Thank you !!!

  • @jackmcmichael3560
    @jackmcmichael3560 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you for a great insight on what happened here in 64

  • @PhilipDeLong
    @PhilipDeLong 7 месяцев назад +2

    FYI-- locals pronounce Del Norte County "dell-NORT", and not as it is in Spanish.
    I grew up in the area and was a small child at the time. This was a tough couple of years for Crescent City. There was a major storm in 1962 called the Columbus Day Storm which blasted the entire Pacific Northwest. Though the center of the storm was in Oregon, Crescent City was affected. Then came the Christmas Flood of 1964 which devastated and isolated Northern California. These three events have had no parallel since-- a unique trio of disasters.
    I understand that Crescent City harbor has some unusual underwater topography that causes especially strong tsunami waves.

    • @PCSPounder
      @PCSPounder 7 месяцев назад +1

      The harbor in Brookings (25 miles north) apparently had similar topography and therefore similar damage in 2011. It didn’t affect some of the larger harbors that were relatively close. A lesser amount of damage happened in Depoe Bay on the central Oregon coast… again, similar topography.

  • @johnpeddicord4932
    @johnpeddicord4932 7 месяцев назад

    Thanks again for sharing, Jeff (P.D.) and Sarah

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +2

      PD? Ha ha ha. Not again! 🤣

  • @alichtenwalter
    @alichtenwalter 7 месяцев назад

    I was a small child living in Brookings Oregon. That's really close. I don't remember, but we moved to Eurgene in a few years later. Thanks. A memory forgotten.

  • @redwhiteblue7831
    @redwhiteblue7831 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great video full of information on Crescent City. Insane how an earthquake so far away can produce such strong waves. The power of water is insane in itself. Too bad Sarah and you couldn't make it across to the lighthouse, high tide won that match. Crescent city has had some natural disasters rip through, man has prevailed. 👍👍
    Thank you for sharing. Take care Jeff and Sarah. 🇺🇲

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks! Love the thorough comments! Water is powerful! Appreciate your RUclips handle too! America!

  • @HumboldtAxe
    @HumboldtAxe 7 месяцев назад +1

    Hi Jeff and Sarah, my family and I are from Oakdale. We moved to Humboldt in 2015. Really appreciate your channel and content. We started our own channel in Humboldt.... Humboldt Axe... You've been a significant inspiration to us in stepping out of our comfort zone and start our channel to share our perspective on our home in Humboldt... Dock...

  • @mannybravo237
    @mannybravo237 7 месяцев назад +1

    Incredible!🤯 Gasoline .33 and .35cents!
    Cresent City, very nice location still.🌊

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад +1

      A totally different works then! I remember gas was 24 cents per gallon!

  • @lornahardin4563
    @lornahardin4563 7 месяцев назад

    That was something back then. Great pictures Jeff. Hope you and Sarah had a really fun trip.

  • @stargater2892
    @stargater2892 7 месяцев назад

    Once again, a great episode.

  • @mariahwhite785
    @mariahwhite785 7 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the great video Jeff and Sarah!

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      Our pleasure! Thank you!

  • @ToesOverKauai
    @ToesOverKauai 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hours after the earthquake and Tsunami up north, I remember the water receding out to sea so far within 10 minutes, you could literally walk around the Capitola Wharf. No one knew what the hell was going on.

  • @georgiasmalley8984
    @georgiasmalley8984 7 месяцев назад

    Thanks for bringing back memories.

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  7 месяцев назад

      You bet! Thanks for watching!

  • @gaylefynaut562
    @gaylefynaut562 6 месяцев назад

    I love learning history. Thank you

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  6 месяцев назад

      Our pleasure! Thank you, Gayle. Sending our holiday wishes for a great one!

  • @eutimiochavez415
    @eutimiochavez415 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for taking us along ,very interesting ❤❤❤❤

    • @jbenziggy
      @jbenziggy  5 месяцев назад

      Thanks for visiting!

  • @lindsaymacpherson8782
    @lindsaymacpherson8782 7 месяцев назад

    May it never happen again but most likely will. Lovely video Jeff and Sarah Thankyou

  • @jpadicecoffee9812
    @jpadicecoffee9812 6 месяцев назад

    Stayed last year at the hotel and walked to the nice harbor , to a small hill at the breakaway. I be back again one day, when I visit Jediah Redwoods. Thanks for making the video. Nice clean small city with friendly people.

  • @marceyvogt2007
    @marceyvogt2007 7 месяцев назад

    I remember hearing about it. I didn't realize it was that bad. Thank you.☮️💖🎶

  • @michaelgmoore5708
    @michaelgmoore5708 7 месяцев назад +1

    I was just going to ask you Jeff if you were a history professor! You know more than any teacher I have ever heard. Sarah is smart enough to join in on this never ending education also. I think your show is expanding many times to help young and old people get more informed every day! Thanks Jeff & Sarah!

  • @carrolganoe9896
    @carrolganoe9896 7 месяцев назад

    I remember this. I had friends who lived in Anchorage and, a Cousin who lived in Crescent City, at that time. They all survived, but one lost their home, the other lost their Business. Thanks for History!