Santa Rosa 1906 eartquake pt 2

The Great Santa Rosa Earthquake of 1906 documentary wins award for KFTY and the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa

A documentary on the 1906 earthquake that destroyed Santa Rosa one hundred years has won a Telly Award for production excellence. This archival video was produced by the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa on the 100th anniversary of the earthquake as a service to the community.
The award honors ad agencies, production companies, TV stations, and cable companies for outstanding production work.

The documentary was the brainchild of Rotarian Jim Johnson, who founded and operated Santa Rosas local television station in 1981 through 1990. Johnson wrote and narrated the video, which featured more than 300 archival photographs of the quakes damage. Why did the Santa Rosa Rotary Club produce a video documentary about an earthquake? The history of this Rotary Club is tied closely to that small farming town 100 years ago that dug out from total destruction 100 years ago and became the fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The first service club in the world, Rotary was founded in 1905, one year before that Big Quake. Our club was chartered only 15 years later as one of the first Rotary Clubs on the west coast, Johnson said.

With the production of this 20 minute DVD, we captured for all time the images of that disaster from a Santa Rosa point of view, Johnson continued, and Rotary has given copies to all the public schools in the Santa Rosa plain, including Santa Rosa Junior College and Sonoma State University, plus the areas many museums and libraries, including the new Doyle Library at SRJC. My dream is that these 600 DVDs—after being shown over the next century to students, adults, service organizations, families, grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, and used as historical research—will survive to be seen during the second centennial of the earthquake, in 3006.

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[LopezDiana707]

I was born In Santa Rosa and went to school there. And They never taught us about this lol

[Joniel120]

I thought the Santa Rosa there was in Laguna, Philippines, LOL!

They should include,"Santa Rosa, California", Since there's a lots of "Santa Rosa" in the world!

[Bazoka420]

Thank you for posting. Very informative.

[uilium]

You might put a link on part 1 to part 2 because I see it has less views...this is so sad. I am FAVing this...Wonderful!

[nhyder51]

Thank you for these amazing pictures! I was privileged to live for three years in Santa Rosa in the late 1990s, and until that time had only heard about the destruction in San Francisco in the 1906 quake. What an amazing spirit the people must have had in Santa Rosa to be able to rebuild their town as they did!