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===Quake===
===Quake===
In 1906, a large earthquake struck San Francisco, killing approximately 3000 people and starting a fire which burned about 4.7 square miles of cityscape. <ref>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/casualties.php</ref>. The earthquake originated on the [[San Andreas]] fault, which continues to threaten major Californian cities.
In 1906, a large earthquake struck San Francisco, killing approximately 3000 people and starting a fire which burned about 4.7 square miles of cityscape. <ref>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/casualties.php</ref>. The earthquake originated on the [[San Andreas]] fault, which continues to threaten major Californian cities.
The second largest earthquake to affect San Francisco, the [[Loma Prieta Earthquake]], struck in 1989, causing damage to the city and surrounding areas.
===Boosters===
===Boosters===
In the first half of the 20th century, business interests in San Francisco, organized into the Chamber of Commerce, asserted themselves as the only legitimate leaders of the community, asserting that labor unions were only a disruptive special interest. However the voters and the overall political culture of the city were much more sympathetic to the working class and to labor unions as their representatives in civic decisionmaking. After conflict between business and unions, including strikes sometimes requiring federal troops, business finally accepted the legitimacy of labor unions after the bitter strike in 1934. The resulting business-labor partnership aided San Francisco's postwar expansion.<ref> William Issel, "Business Power and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1900-1940," ''Journal of Urban History,'' 1989 16(1): 52-77</ref>
In the first half of the 20th century, business interests in San Francisco, organized into the Chamber of Commerce, asserted themselves as the only legitimate leaders of the community, asserting that labor unions were only a disruptive special interest. However the voters and the overall political culture of the city were much more sympathetic to the working class and to labor unions as their representatives in civic decisionmaking. After conflict between business and unions, including strikes sometimes requiring federal troops, business finally accepted the legitimacy of labor unions after the bitter strike in 1934. The resulting business-labor partnership aided San Francisco's postwar expansion.<ref> William Issel, "Business Power and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1900-1940," ''Journal of Urban History,'' 1989 16(1): 52-77</ref>