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.
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?
@@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.
@@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?
@@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.
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.
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.
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..
I was there in Crescent City the day after the quake. I was a 21 year old full time college student in San Francisco working part time at KFRC radio. The news director, Carlton Cordell, asked if I wanted to fly with him to Crescent City to cover the story. I agreed and we charted a single engine plane and flew to a landing strip outside the City and then borrowed a car and drove to the City. While there we interviewed survivors and disaster officials. It was the start of my 41 year career in broadcasting. We later flew back to San Francisco that night with a Time Magazine reporter and a Life Magazine photographer hitching a ride.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 👍
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. 🌊❤️🩹
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.
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
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 I don’t get it; who wants to live in a place that gets as hot as it gets there for half the year (or more), or live with the lousy air quality? Is it geographically beautiful? Yes. However, when driving down the mountains from the north, as you get closer to Phoenix, there is often a blanket of gray “air” covering the valley. And yet the developers just keep on building, and people just keep on buying. Golf courses and swimming pools keep swallowing up water, water, and more water. And the people seem to be oblivious to the precipice that is tipping AZ into a drought stricken wasteland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you so much for this! I remember this event well. We were staying at the beach down the coast for Easter week when it happened. Nothing happened down there but we were on high alert. This is the first in-depth depiction I have seen of this sad event. Very well done!
Thanks for showing what happened in Crescent City after the 1964 Alaskan Earthquake. I was a young boy, living with my parents, and two sisters, at Ft. Richardson AK when the earthquake hit, that fateful day. Dad was stationed at Ft. Richardson, with the U.S. Army, then, and was a Combat Photographer. Some of the pictures from downtown Anchorage you shown could have been taken, or developed by him. I still remember where I was sitting and what TV program we were watching when the quake hit. Afterwards we had to boil water and mom had to put a TBS of bleach/gallon of water to purify it. It tasted awful! Hard to believe that it was 60 years ago! Again, thanks for this video!
What a horrible thing to live through. I live in California so I’ve experienced my share of earthquakes but nothing that severe. Hard to believe it has been that long ago. I was three years old that year!
@@jbenziggy you know, I talk about it now with pride. Proud of my father and what he accomplished. Proud of what my mother did and proud of the people of Alaska and their strength and resiliency.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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 ❤️
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*
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...
We also called it the Good Friday Earthquake , which happened on my tenth birthday... We lived in Orange County but psychologically it felt close, with Crescent City being a familiar place. The photos of both Anchorage and Crescent City in the news struck horror in my ten-year-old heart. It was after this earthquake that all the hype about California and the Big One (falling into the Pacific Ocean) got started.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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"
Born and raised in San Francisco, I well remember the 1964 quake in Alaska; I was a junior in high school. I do not recall whether we felt the quake in the City, but it wouldn't surprise me. My late husband said his uncle had a boat in the Redwood City harbor (not quite 30 miles south of SF), and the tsunami came in the Golden Gate, rushed down the bay, and ruined numerous boats in that harbor, including the one belonging to the uncle.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
I was out of state for three weeks and when I got home I was pleasantly surprised find this waiting on me. Thank you for an excellent clip, we enjoyed it so much.
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. 🇺🇲
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.
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 🇦🇺
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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. 💜🤟🏻✌🏻🐬🇺🇸
Hi! Jeff and Sarah: Thanks for this video. I had a cousin and family living in southern Alaska, Tanana Crossing at the time of the big quake. Her husband and two girls were on the frozen Tanana River when the big earthquake struck. Her husband had felt earthquakes before in Japan. So he knew they needed to get off the ice. They made it in time. So we were focused on the effects in Alaska. I don't recall hearing anything about the tsunami hitting Crescent City. If we did, Alaska far over shadowed any other reports for us. Thanks again. You showed me some history I had missed. Crescent City looks like a nice place to live. Except for the threat of huge waves reaching the town again some day. It reminds me the coast is a nice place to visit, but I don't want to live there.
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.
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.
Thanks for the interesting history. I passed through "Bay City" in the late 70s while bumming my way down the coast. Got offered a job on a day trip fishing boat, spent the night on the beach under a dinghy after hanging out on the pier with the locals for their Friday evening get together, teens flirting, fishermen telling stories and passing the bottle. Nice as the place is (that beach is endless!) I had to move on. Great memories. Resilient is a good way to describe people in Del Norte.
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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.
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?
i'm surprised that they dont have a bridge out to the lighthouse
@@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.
@@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?
@@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.
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.
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.
Definitely didn’t exist then
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.
I 💡 natural wants to push these viruses call humans out of there😂😂😂😂
Also on the Oregon and Washington coasts.
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..
Thank you for the History Lesson. Wish YOU were my history teacher. I would’ve passed.
Wow, thanks! I have often said history is being taught by the wrong people…people who aren’t into history.
@@jbenziggy, Jeff I'm in 💯% agreement with that statement! 😢
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I remember. Worked for the Alaska Communication System.
I was there in Crescent City the day after the quake. I was a 21 year old full time college student in San Francisco working part time at KFRC radio. The news director, Carlton Cordell, asked if I wanted to fly with him to Crescent City to cover the story. I agreed and we charted a single engine plane and flew to a landing strip outside the City and then borrowed a car and drove to the City. While there we interviewed survivors and disaster officials. It was the start of my 41 year career in broadcasting. We later flew back to San Francisco that night with a Time Magazine reporter and a Life Magazine photographer hitching a ride.
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.
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.
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.
Coast guard cutter did not sink....we had mild damage
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
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.
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 👍
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. 🌊❤️🩹
I’ve driven through crescent city dozens of times and had no idea the history. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
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
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.
I suppose Ohio is safe but Arizona is never going to have a problem, there's no water there at all.
@@FloozieOne I don’t get it; who wants to live in a place that gets as hot as it gets there for half the year (or more), or live with the lousy air quality? Is it geographically beautiful? Yes. However, when driving down the mountains from the north, as you get closer to Phoenix, there is often a blanket of gray “air” covering the valley. And yet the developers just keep on building, and people just keep on buying. Golf courses and swimming pools keep swallowing up water, water, and more water. And the people seem to be oblivious to the precipice that is tipping AZ into a drought stricken wasteland.
I had never heard about this tsunami. Thanks for the history lesson. I can always count on History Hunters for an interesting Sunday.
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.
Thanks for the video. I'm from Crescent City. I was in the Navy boot camp in San Diego , when this happened.
Glad you enjoy it, Frank! Thanks!
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.
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.
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.
Thank you so much for this! I remember this event well. We were staying at the beach down the coast for Easter week when it happened. Nothing happened down there but we were on high alert. This is the first in-depth depiction I have seen of this sad event.
Very well done!
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.
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Thanks for showing what happened in Crescent City after the 1964 Alaskan Earthquake. I was a young boy, living with my parents, and two sisters, at Ft. Richardson AK when the earthquake hit, that fateful day. Dad was stationed at Ft. Richardson, with the U.S. Army, then, and was a Combat Photographer. Some of the pictures from downtown Anchorage you shown could have been taken, or developed by him. I still remember where I was sitting and what TV program we were watching when the quake hit. Afterwards we had to boil water and mom had to put a TBS of bleach/gallon of water to purify it. It tasted awful! Hard to believe that it was 60 years ago! Again, thanks for this video!
What a horrible thing to live through. I live in California so I’ve experienced my share of earthquakes but nothing that severe. Hard to believe it has been that long ago. I was three years old that year!
@@jbenziggy you know, I talk about it now with pride. Proud of my father and what he accomplished. Proud of what my mother did and proud of the people of Alaska and their strength and resiliency.
Thank you for the history lesson 👏🏻👏🏻!!
You bet! Thanks!
I sure do appreciate your channel and all the places you visit and the history 'lessons' that goes with the visits!
Our pleasure! Thank you!
Thanks to you and Sarah. Never really knew about this city. Knew about Alaskan earthquake. Thanks for the history lesson again!
Our pleasure!
I remember that event in 1964. Thanks for the visuals and story
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
Another Excellent story, thank you Jeff!
Thanks for listening!
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.
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.
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.
Our pleasure!
The tsunami on Japan flowed 5 miles inland. Good job you guys.
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
Great job Jeff !! Thank you !!!
I have visited Crescent City several times, It's a beautiful area, I love it!!!
I totally agree!
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 ❤️
sister took me to a park and the bathroom bldg had a marking of the water height on it, totally amazed at the power of tsunamis because of that
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*
Sounds like you guys need to plan a trip to California in 2023! Thank you for being our biggest fans in Tennessee!
@@jbenziggy ♥️
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🙂
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...
Never knew much about cresent city....thx
Amazing not more people perished. Ive been to Crescent City...love it
We also called it the Good Friday Earthquake , which happened on my tenth birthday... We lived in Orange County but psychologically it felt close, with Crescent City being a familiar place. The photos of both Anchorage and Crescent City in the news struck horror in my ten-year-old heart. It was after this earthquake that all the hype about California and the Big One (falling into the Pacific Ocean) got started.
Good job... Tragic and heartbreaking 💔🙏☝️🕊️
Incredible!🤯 Gasoline .33 and .35cents!
Cresent City, very nice location still.🌊
A totally different works then! I remember gas was 24 cents per gallon!
Well, it was 60 years ago. I wonder how much that would be in today's money?
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
Excellent video and historical facts that I was not aware of. Thanks for doing this.
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.
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.
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...
What blows my mind is the Hobby Lobby at 2:09!
I had no idea that store was around then!
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.
Were you folks scared from that wave hitting their town?!
@@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.
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.
My family and I go there often. Its not too bad.
Before and after photos are awsome. Its a pity people become complacent with warning sirens but we do. Those tsunamis are so powerful.
Great sad story 😢thanks Jeff
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.
That's always tragic when someone loses their home. I appreciate you sharing!
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.
This was amazing so many things happened at the same time. This town was hit every which way at once.
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!
Thank you for the compliment!
Always wanted to go there, thanks for the great video!!
Thanks for watching! Much appreciated, Phil!
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.
Thanks, Susan! California is earthquake country all its own! Our part of California is relatively safe from fault lines!
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.
Wow, sad and scary! Thankyou Jeff & Sarah for the video to share it's history. I always enjoy learning from you.🙂
Our pleasure! Thank you!
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!
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!
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"
Born and raised in San Francisco, I well remember the 1964 quake in Alaska; I was a junior in high school. I do not recall whether we felt the quake in the City, but it wouldn't surprise me.
My late husband said his uncle had a boat in the Redwood City harbor (not quite 30 miles south of SF), and the tsunami came in the Golden Gate, rushed down the bay, and ruined numerous boats in that harbor, including the one belonging to the uncle.
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!
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.
Wish you two made it across to the lighthouse ,such a beautiful beach scene 👍
Yeah we were bummed! I got to visit it in 1993 but not this time!
That was something back then. Great pictures Jeff. Hope you and Sarah had a really fun trip.
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.
Thanks for watching! I too was disappointed!
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.
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!
Woops flood occured in 1964.
1964 was the year of the Christmas Flood- it devastated communities from Washington down to California.
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!
I was only 1 year old when my family had to evacuate. I loved listening to my mom retelling the story of that dark night.
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.
Thanks again for sharing, Jeff (P.D.) and Sarah
PD? Ha ha ha. Not again! 🤣
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.
I was out of state for three weeks and when I got home I was pleasantly surprised find this waiting on me. Thank you for an excellent clip, we enjoyed it so much.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for finally getting to view it!
@@jbenziggy Jeff, you are more than welcome. Keep em coming!
Another excellent video. Thanks for digging up all those old photos. Boy, Crescent City sure had its share of disasters. Thanks again.
It sure did! Area there is too low which makes it prone to tidal waves!
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. 🇺🇲
Thanks! Love the thorough comments! Water is powerful! Appreciate your RUclips handle too! America!
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.
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.
May it never happen again but most likely will. Lovely video Jeff and Sarah Thankyou
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 🇦🇺
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.
@@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.
Excellent presentation! I live in Crescent City, born the same year, but many months later. You did a great job.
Thank you!
Wow! Excellent video. Good to know the history involved in the tsunami. I always wondered what happened.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
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.
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.
History was my favorite class on High School. It's the only class I maintained a grade above 90.
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. 💜🤟🏻✌🏻🐬🇺🇸
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!
I love love Cresent City. ❤
Hi! Jeff and Sarah: Thanks for this video. I had a cousin and family living in southern Alaska, Tanana Crossing at the time of the big quake. Her husband and two girls were on the frozen Tanana River when the big earthquake struck. Her husband had felt earthquakes before in Japan. So he knew they needed to get off the ice. They made it in time. So we were focused on the effects in Alaska. I don't recall hearing anything about the tsunami hitting Crescent City. If we did, Alaska far over shadowed any other reports for us.
Thanks again. You showed me some history I had missed. Crescent City looks like a nice place to live. Except for the threat of huge waves reaching the town again some day. It reminds me the coast is a nice place to visit, but I don't want to live there.
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.
Thank you for a great insight on what happened here in 64
Thanks! It’s good to hear about the history here!
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.
Thanks for the interesting history. I passed through "Bay City" in the late 70s while bumming my way down the coast. Got offered a job on a day trip fishing boat, spent the night on the beach under a dinghy after hanging out on the pier with the locals for their Friday evening get together, teens flirting, fishermen telling stories and passing the bottle. Nice as the place is (that beach is endless!) I had to move on. Great memories. Resilient is a good way to describe people in Del Norte.
Sounds like a very memorable experience!