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  • There's an earthquake and lives lost and all this guy cares about is his Giants and whether he gets to go back and see Game 3 free of charge. Gimme a break!

  • 1:31 right behind me i have the famed creeper behind the tree

  • Awesome video.

  • awesome video. i was like a year old when this happened. sucks the giants still lost tho. lol. thanks for the upload!

  • Driving would be the last thing I'd be doing at that moment. I lived in Santa Cruz when this hit and it was an experience unlike anything that could be conveyed in a video.

  • Wow was it really scary?

  • It was actually there . This brings it all back to me .

  • 2:38 for the actual earthquake.

  • Great video. Nice to see actual eyewitness footage from an average Joe.

  • I like the shot later in the video where they are driving up Castro as it turrns into Divis and there is all the smoke from the Marina burning... It gives a sense of the extent of the smoke and fire... also, I wouldn't be driving on Duboce/Division under the Central Freeway like he was RIGHT AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE!!! Yikes!

  • an earthquake is an earthquake...wake up....it takes all of nature to unleash her venom....she is a force to bow down to

  • and this is just when cell phones (other than car phones) were becoming popular!

  • my grampa was at the game for the A'S AND HE GOT IT ON CRAMA IT LOOKED SCAREY

  • GIANTS SUCK A'S ARE WAY BETER 

  • I was in san jose when this happened we were setting up pool tables than it hit you could not stand the house in the back had a swimming pool that spilled out like a bathtub an knocked down a fence.

  • If my Cubs had beaten the Giants in the 1989 NLCS then that might have meant more deaths in the Bay Area because there would have been more people out on the road at rush hour.

  • Did he died?

  • Um I believe the earthquake is around 2 mins. 40 secs. but i have no idea the camera shakes for half a second and that's it. Don't waste your time with the rest of the it, actually don't waste your time with any of it since you don't see anything.

  • That actually ruined your fun since you were pumped for that game, then the quake hit which ruined everyone's day! Great video footage man!

  • i though it was great footage and the kid was just prequake fun

  • This is surreal,

  • 240 bucks save your butt

  • i was born 10 days later.....wow

  • Ha Giants guy at3:30 he said there going to kickass bu they didnt

  • I thought they would show the actual earthquake!! :(

  • GO GIANTS 2010 WORLD CHAMPS!!!!!

  • great video and filming ! now a days everyone has a camera but they don't make it as good !

  • Awesome video, I recognized the whole drive through the city!! Remember this day like it was yesterday 5:04

  • Good times!

  • Awesome video

  • i was 2 years old, and i remember a giant panda fell on me during the quake. anyways, go giants!

  • was 4 months old when this happened

  • My mom was about 7 months pregnant with me when this happened, she and my dad were watching this live on TV.

    Since the Giants are in the World Series this time, how weird would it be if there was another earthquake during their game?

  • i masturbate during quakes

  • @foilseal I get the funny feeling that you do more than masterbate during an earthquake.

  • @rayjr62 that doesn't make any sense

  • ‎"I was at the Oakland Coliseum last Saturday and they had 4 port-a-potties in the entire parking lot. Here at Candlestick we got a whole bank of em. It's much superior to Oakland baseball."

    LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, YOU KNUCKLEHEAD!!!!!

  • I can't imagine being somebody at that game who first heard "the Bay Bridge collapsed". WOW

  • of course the Giants got to face Henderson again because of the damn quake!!! AWW!!!

  • had a ticket to game 4...i was in los angeles, working by a pool when the quake hit...saw the water over lapping the sides of the pool...thought some weird wind had come up...went to turn on the game and that is when i heard the quake hit

    i was freaked, cuz my bro and a bunch of friends were sitting in the upper dexck

  • It's great how the announcer that is telling the people in the upper deck to head to the nearest exit after the quake and he's still using his 'game voice'.

  • I was 16 and smoking a bunch of trim from some plants we had stolen in the neighborhood when this knocked me on my back. My uncle was at the game. All of the freeways were blocked and he had to drive down the El Camino Real with no power to Santa Clara. It took 8 hours. We rode our bikes around in the pitch black and went to the SCU campus where all of the students were partying like mad. Wild, freaky night. RIP all those who died. RIP the original brick Pacific Garden mall in Santa Cruz.

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  • you know what other 4 things the oakland coliseum has??? championships

  • @jesse1970ss touche

  • what a great world series,not even mother nature could stop the A's from winning a championship.sure you can say the canseco/mcgwire stuff,but people forget that there are 25 guys on the roster,you know why the A's won? because of Dave Stewart.storm davis,bob welch,mike moore,rick honeycutt.eckersley,walt weiss.dave henderson,dave parker.The A's were superior to the Giants were and still are,sure the giants may have the fancy new park,but in their 50yrs in sf,how many championships havethey won?

  • "I was watching a video and you know what?" " what?" " I saw some tall guy talking like a dork on some kind of Paleolithic news."

  • i guess it shows that Baseball Curses are still alive but man who knows i live in Atlanta, GA the only disaster we've gotten was an F2 tornado but as far as the curse reference i've heard that the Giants behind the cubs are the 2nd cursed team in Baseball but my Atlanta Braves are rocking along even though we lost the NL east but for the victims of the quake god bless indeed and charlievision great footage

  • @TheLatinJuggalo the cleveland indians are number 2 not to mention Houston, they've been around for awhile and have never won it

  • Holy balls @ 2:41. That's crazy violent. I'll just take my chances and stay in tornado alley.

  • oakland athletics have 11 world series thats awseome go athletics

  • @740jakester But the Giants have a whole bank of floating feces booths. Oakland only had 4.

  • @youdiejoe well ya lol and acctually the oakland athletics onlt have 9 that was my mistake and it was mostly because rickey henderson

  • @740jakester

    the A's have 9,5 in philly and 4 in oakland,only 1 with rickey and that was 89,the other 3 were the dynasty years of the early 70's 72-74,the a's 9 championships are the most in the american league,besides the new york yankees.

  • I love how everybody starts cheering during the quake. It must show how many they are used to. Anywhere else everybody would start screaming.

  • Great video, thanks for posting!

  • SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! Love my A's....

  • @invincibleironman3 yeah,they won it on steroids....CHEATERS!!!!

  • @dogstar1967 ..sigh jealousy will get you nowhere. but hey, you do have a nice ballpark. try not to gag in post season...if you get there, that is. Straight A's!!!!

  • @SuperOmnicron I don't live in san francisco,I just don't admire players that use steroids to further their baseball careers or any athlete for that matter......canseco and mcgwire are a disgrace.......yeah,bonds too.

  • I was In LA when that happened was 7 I remember it sort of

  • Great great vid.

  • I get the set up Charlie, and thanks. Some people watched He-Man cartoons when they were 5 years old, and now in adult life their brain is hard-wired for instant feedback or error, it's a problem. Anyway, if the guy who said "this is earthquake weather" at the main gate that day reads this, post something here about it, you had a righteous premonition there, fella.

  • Great video. I had a friend in San Jose and visited her several months after the quake. Still remember the "tent city" in Santa Cruz.

  • It was so irrelevant that San Francisco lost the World Series in '89 compared to the lives lost in that tragic earthquake!

  • I was entirely alone when the quake hit. My older brother and I had a routine: I'd get the beer and hot dogs, he'd pay for them and take his seat, I buy you fly deal. So I was heading to his season ticket seats between home plate and 1st in the walkway, the bulkhead was on my right, I'm holding the 2 polish and beers. On the other side of that concrete wall are thousands of people, none in sight next to me in the walkway at the moment it hit, an initial jolt, pause, then shake-a-Roonie time.

  • It was indeed a nice day, my 27th birthday in fact, and around this time, from where I was standing with the crowd filing into the stadium at the main entrance, it was still, sunny and warm. I didn't see who this person was, but I heard very clearly someone in the crowd say "this is earthquake weather." I always have wondered who that guy was, and why he has not been interviewed. When the quake hit I was in the walkway between the food stalls and the entrance to seats between home and 1st.

  • porter pottys does not make a better team

  • Great video. EGarrett is clueless

  • Garrett...that's kinda rude, don't you think? i understand you felt you should express your opinion...but don't be so rude about it. Good job on the video, Charlie.

  • this is vintage vlogging! the way you hold the camera to yourself, etc. You were ahead of your time!

  • i was expecting that kid to say "I like turtles" any moment ...but in any case..good video

  • Great Video - no matter what EGarrett01 says. The build up was pure journalism.

  • I was in Menlo Park. at the time of the quake.

  • We are so fragile. Yet we all come together when we have to.

  • This is really an excellent first hand account of this historic event. I was in San Jose at the time watching the game on TV.  Thanks for sharing it.

  • no it isnt

  • chili is something a sauce type beef u put on your hot dog, not a country. CHILE is a location, in which a 9+ magnitude earthquake struck

  • 7.1 seems like a kiddie quake compaired to that one that just hit Chili 8.8 Wow. I remember the bay area quake like it was yesterday and it was huge I can't imagine an 8.8

    Go A's

  • guess what the record for eatrhquakes is, 9.5 in Chili

  • sorry but it was not 9.5 it was 8.8

  • Indeed, Chile got hot really hard.

  • "They had FOUR porta-potties" and he holds up two fingers?

  • Sweep.....

  • Even though I was in the 4th grade, I remember this so well... At the time my father was at work at the San Francisco Chronicle. I remember being so worried about him with my brother and my sisters and my stepmom.. These recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti made this quake look like nothing but it was still tragic as well.. I hope this shit doesnt continue, now I am very worried...

  • check out my earthquake rap

  • i want to make a film but of a disease epidemic

  • already been done before. you're about 80 years too late.

  • LMFAO!! Way too late!

  • when i come to think of it, i actually cant even THINK of a more played out film plot than that.

  • yeah thats very true, but then i thought a film like this about hurricane Katrina would be interesting

  • If that was 6.0 on the ritcher scale, imagine what could have happened if it was a 10.0 earthquake? That is why the bay cities are somewhere i want to visit , but never live there.

  • @lightningtree9- it was actually registered as 7.1

  • If the vid is called Game 3 quake, please have the quake show up much much sooner. If the vid is called "random baseball footage and a slow awkward interview with a special needs child, then eventually an earthquake," then it's titled accurately...but obviously that vid wouldn't be very interesting to people.

  • Dude, I'm sorry you didn't get it. The drama is in the set up. Thus the chilling 80's music choice. Gives me the creeps just thinking of it.

  • @CharlieVision

    If you want to have suspense then give people something to watch in the meantime. Not irrelevant footage that's the equivalent of dead air.

  • @CharlieVision 100% agree with you.

  • @CharlieVision yeah dude it truly does creep me out

  • @CharlieVision You wouldn't know drama if it came up behind you.

  • @CharlieVision Please delete accout then kill self! Mahalo!

  • @seattlehawkins Please go to hell! You're flagged.

  • @SJSharkWannabe thanx for wasting both of our time on this flag! Nigger!

  • @EGarrett01 You're a moron.

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  • early reports were that the bay bridge had collapsed, in reality, a portion of the upper deck partially fell down on the lower deck. but that early report was absolutely shocking !

  • The sad music at 4:30 this is very sad to me and i felt really bad that the 1989 World Series had to end early because of the dumb earthquake:(

  • Wow chills up my body.

  • this footage is amazing. great job. it's so interesting to be driving in the car along for the ride, listening to live radio news reports, seeing the distant fires, and people walking about.

  • I was there that day!! I still remember it like it was yesterday....let me tell you that a 7.0 quake is pretty major, I can't stop thinking about all those people ih Haiti.

  • I was living in Santa Cruz at the time with my family. I was at work and was unable to call or get a message to my family to see if they were ok and I was ok. Normally a 10 minute drive home took me 2 hours to get home. Watching the ground roll and shake was the most amazing I have seen in my life.

  • i think this is a great video. not the event that happened but that someone still has very good footage of what happened

  • that was just the beginning. my dad was on a business trip up there and he said he remembers the freeway collapsing

  • The Game!! Life is more important than a stupid game.

  • Natural disasters aren't "cute."

  • I've watched this several times over time and I still thinks it's great!

  • me 2

  • me 2 :)

  • By the way the Oakland Coliseum before mount davis was built was BY FAR better than Candlestick. Even with mount davis it's still a better place to go than Candlestick. Candlestick is a nightmare. I can't wait until they tear it down and the Niners play in something decent.

  • this is really great footage.

  • wow a crap load of porta potties at candlestick and the giants are more "superior" lol, you said it not me.

    A's 2010!!!!!

  • At the time of this earthquake, there was a remade version of Carole King's "I Feel The Earh Move", by some girl - Debbie Gibson? I read that it was played on the loudspeakers in the stadium before the game began. No one could know that they all were going to feel the earth move very shortly.

  • subtle foreshadowing- some people just don't pick up on it.

  • Watched this happen live on TV in Florida. I was 6 at the time, and my grandmother and mom had this on. My aunt lives in Santa Cruz, and when it happened, my grandmother said "Oh my God, they're having an earthquake." After they came back and we started to realize how bad it was, she tried to call her five or six times, but couldn't get through. I didn't really understand what happened, but I've never forgotten it.

  • @LenaAndreia I was about the same age living in Ky. It was a nice sunny fall day as I remember it.

  • Amazing, amazing footage. Most of what I have seen is what was recorded on tv from espn or abc, behind the scenes stuff like this is extremely rare. This brought back so much emotion for me. Hard to believe this was 20 years ago. I was 10 at the time and vividly remember getting ready to watch the game and when the quake came I dove under our coffee table. My dad was eating a salad in the dining room and my sister was making enchiladas in the kitchen for us.

  • Fact: The 1989 World Series marks the 4th time that the Oakland Athletics faces the San Francisco Giants in the World Series. The two teams previously met in the W.S. was in 1905, 1911 and 1913. My father (a Giants fan, when he was 28 in '89) was shocked that the Earthquake interupted the series at 3Com park. He was disapointed that he has to wait until October 27th and was also disapointed that Oakland won the series, but was glad that the 49ers won the Super Bowl 3 months later.

  • its actually candlestick again, and it was candlestick back then

  • I know. I can still remember like yesterday. I was just 6 years old when it happened. My fondest memory of it was when we stayed in Navato, in which my stepdad was stationed at. My mother drove to the Safeway up on the hill. That's when it hit and my stepfather holding my infant brother told me to stand still and motionless. The house shook for about 5 seconds. My mom returned 30 minutes later telling us that people panicked.

  • Man,you look like you sat near us,Section 28 row 32.

    What a night.We won the tickets to the game.

  • my mom was 6 or 8 months with me when she had me. i was born 1990 when this happen.

  • same here march 1990 at least 49ers won the Superbowl

    Milpitas baby

  • wow, you know you're old when you read " i was born days after or when this happened" hahaha......im 31 btw : 0

  • Am I the only person who misses the 'Stick?

  • I miss how inexpensive the seats were in left field and how many day games they played. I would cut class and go to a game or 5

  • No, you aren't! :(

  • "IN THE CASE OF AN EARTHQUAKE, FANS ON THE UPPER DECK ARE TO REPORT TO THE NEAREST POSSIBLE EMERGENCY EXIT"....

    im assuming there was a bit of time lag on the camera since the quake hit at 5:04, but that would be the funniest thing to hear right before it struck which im assuming was just a couple minutes after that was said...great vid by the way. 20 years after surviving the quake heard around the world, bring on the next big one, were waiting for ya...

  • It was just genius to build the bay bridge like the Bay Bridge in California. Just genius.

  • At 8 years old in Oakland, CA on October 17th, 1989 I uttered words during the earthquake that my sisters will never let me live down, "A monster's shaking the house." - Christopher Burnett

  • I remember I was in day care watching the baseball game. What sounded like 10-20 kids running down the hallway on the second floor was immediately followed by violent shaking and everybody was looking at each other in disbelief. Scary times and I totally remember a little girl crying for her bird at home. LOL.....

  • I was at that game that day.. I was 13 years old.. It took us hours to get out of the parking lot, and for about 30 minutes, Joe Montana and his family were in the car next to us. People were really good about driving without stoplights too.. We didnt have power for several days, but they got the water on pretty quickly.. I was just happy that I got a week off school!

  • lucky

  • absolutely eerie...I was 7 when this happened, I watched and my most vivid memory is after that quake, I think then baseball commissioner made the announcement that Game 3 would be post-poned.

  • My son was born 5 days later...

  • I was born August of that year

  • i was born 9 days later

  • I was born when this all happened

  • This is one actually surreal yet real event caught on tape without any planning of doing so....what an eerie feeling a combination of thrills & chills....a typical day 2 watch a sporting event - a worls series nonetheless- turned into disasater...what a plot!!??...GOOD JOB CHARLIE!!!

  • this is funny because nobody has cellphone's!!! If it happened today, everyone would be on their iphone's or blackberry's trying to find out what happened!

  • this is rare "amateur" footage.. nowadays everythings captured on mobile phones and uploaded with an hour. Cameras back then woulda been fairly bulky too.

  • I was in Paramount America in San Mateo in May 1994. I was waiting in line for some ride when we started talking with some folks in front of us.

    They were from California. We mentioned we're from Kansas. They said they are afraid of tornadoes and we're afraid of quakes. We were afraid of living in each other's home states.

    I remember seeing this large brace on an overpass from the ground (probably one of the I-x80's. I'm guessing I-280. We were in the east part of SF.

  • Lets go Oakland!!!!!!!!

  • I do recall that oakland won the world series that year. i wish they were in the playoffs this year

  • This is pretty epic. Was 2:40 - 2:43 the earthquake?

  • i always love it when ppl go behind news reporters in public. always cracks me up

  • yeah...bring on the start of the steroid epidemic

  • And the next year the A's lost in 4 straight to the CINCINNATI REDS!

    Eckersly and the A's SWEPT by the REDS in 1990!

  • go to the field....the crowd goes wild!!

  • born at oakknoll hospital in 58 my parents were oakland oaks fans(the fans used to throw chicken bones at the umps) there were no a's grew up giants fan. saw micky mantle and lots of great players at col. love giants

  • Fantastic historical account.

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  • the oakland A's have 4 World Series rings in Oakland. The Giants have 0 in San Francisco. Oakland baseball is far superior to San Francisco! LETS GO OAKLAND

  • When the dude said "4 port-a-pottys" he held up two fingers. Just found it funny...

  • I like the music. Especially the trombone blast in the background at 1:09.

    Anyone know what that song is?

  • I remember living in San Diego and we felt the shaking all the way there. Wasnt very strong but we knew somewhere got hit very hard. I was 9 yrs old and I remember feeling a sense of saddeness when i saw the damage. I know we in So.Cal are way overdue and hope that Im not here when it hits

  • Please people "Remember Poor Watsonville" too. Just because it wasn't and still isn't a business and tourist mecca like Oakland, San Fran, Santa Cruz, and San Jose are. But, it deserves to be rembered for the death and destruction it had to suffer through as well!! It took them around seven years to mostly rebuild their town!!..One should forgive these sports fans for their not understanding the situation's severity. Undoubtedly when they saw the Freeway in Oakland, I'm sure they felt very bad!!

  • Can't forget Hollister either! I had family in Hollister when it happened i wasn't born but they told me stories and it was pretty fucked up because they rarely got any aid because it was all goin to the big cities like you said.

  • Yes, I'm very sorry to forget about poor "Hollister" , as well!! Indeed my neighbor grew up there. It's one of the most seismecly active regions on the continent! She always used to joke that she'd let the earthquakes rock her to sleep at night!................It's sad that Hollister, Watsonville, and Salinas all got forgotten about............. Take care for now!

  • What a bunch of moron fans.

  • by the way the experimental episode of Rescue 9-1-1- that is #107 is here and was cancelled because of the earthquake coverage in the north east

  • 2 days before my 3rd bday- i was in san mateo n i thought it was awesome on a huge ship in the playground of aftercare.. i thought god was moving the boat for us.. it was neat until the aftershock knocked me into the hallway from the toilet... scared the sh*t outta me...

  • I was 8 when this happened. Back when I had less worries. Only worries I had was doing my homework, making sure I watched my favorite cartoons and making sure my mom bought me the correct cereal...lol

  • wow this brings back memories. i was 7 yo i lived in gilroy calif. i was doing some hw at the time.... when shit the fan...

  • I lived in the Bay Area when this happened. As it appeared to be the same with the filmmaker and a lot of the fans, I wasn't harmed. There was no damage to my home or my employer (where I was at the time), so it was a couple of hours before I realized how devastating this really was.

  • anybody know who won the series? (continued after the quake)

  • oakland in a sweep

  • the A's won it after the quake

  • I remember being at that game in 89, I was seven years old. It took us about 5 hours to drive from san francisco to san jose which normaly takes 45 minutes.That and I remember the Giants got swept by the roid brothers...I mean the bash brothers macgwire and cansanco, im not bitter or anything,just wish they would have given the Giants back THEIR trophy because they earned it but I'm not bitter. Fuckin bash brothers

  • DODGERS #1.

  • u know what hurricane katriana was not awesome it was a terrible time for new orleans so dont think it was awesome because u might have forgot nut thousends people have lost there lives to that do u know how sad that even is to never see life again just think about that