Oct 17, 2017
To help elevate the voices and stories of Black San Franciscans, we’ll be rerunning those episodes over the next few weeks. We’ll be back with new stories from your neighbors down the road a bit.
It's Oct. 17, 1989, and Yayne
Abeba, fresh out of high school, living on her own, and working in
the Marina, wants to step outside with a coworker to talk shit
about their boss. In a few minutes, her life and the lives of
everyone in the Bay Area will change forever.
This is the story of Yayne's day
during the Loma Prieta earthquake, a magnitude 6.9 quake that shook
foundations, started fires, leveled freeways, and changed many
things about life in the Bay Area.
Film photography by Michelle Kilfeather