San Francisco: Then and Now

We went to the Legion of Honor on Saturday afternoon to see a great photography exhibit called After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.

It was a fantastic exhibit, and I highly recommend seeing it before it closes in June. I've seen so many photographs of the aftermaths of the 1906 earthquake and fires, but somehow these images were even more descriptive than ones that I've seen before. The old photographs were coupled with photographs taken last year, in 2005, from the same location and angle of the original images. The contrast of the two images were sometimes startling.

This year will mark the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. I'm sure we'll be seeing many other exhibits and historical accounts about it over the next few months.