Bashford picked up the next piece of the puzzle

The annual remembrance was started in 1919 by the South of Market Boys, a fraternity that bined local charity with the pleasures of drink.Real estate investor Leo Sapienza, who served as the group's last president, carried on the tradition with help from his daughter, Taren Sapienza, who took over in 1980 and brought Houskeeper on board in 1989.Wholesale Cheap Noble Satin sweatheart applique beaded wedding dresses HS56243During Houskeeper's years as event organizer, survivors with sharp memories gave way to those with more impressionistic recollections: a mother bending over a shaking crib, a father protecting his son from falling plaster, the Golden Gate Park encampments that became home to so many.After the centennial survivor count: 11 Sapienza bowed out. The following year, hundreds crowded around Lotta's to cheer the city's tenacity.Wholesale Cheap New Arrival Cheap One-Shoulder A-Line Elegant Chiffon A-Line Wedding Dress When Houskeeper convened a meeting soon after to debate the event's fate, it was longtime Chronicle reporter Carl Nolte who tipped the balance."He said the event had to go on," Houskeeper recalled, "because San Francisco is the real survivor."



Bashford picked up the next piece of the puzzle. An old friend of FIDM founder and president Toni Hohberg, Bashford has been an advisor to the San Francisco campus for two decades. When the publicity-shy Hohberg recently asked him to serve on the board, he agreed on the condition that the school toot its own horn a bit louder, he said.Hohberg admired the earthquake memoration and wanted to take part. And so began Houskeeper's garment search.He turned to Ron Ross, president of the San Francisco History Assn.,Tulle sweatheat beaded wedding dresses HS56231 who had sold his 3,000-piece collection of original earthquake memorabilia, including recorded oral histories with survivors. He had, however, held on to a certain dress. He dug it up along with the 1988 typed donation letter from Elizabeth A.



Jacklin, then of Buffalo Grove, Ill."My grandparents were anticipating attending the Opera in 1906 when the earthquake and fire changed their plans," the letter said. "Strangely, my grandmother's opera coat and black lace gown were among the few things saved when their home was destroyed and they became 'street' people."Newspaper advertisements indicate the Jacklins owned several stores, selling glassware and china and restaurant supplies, as well as possibly dolls and meats after the city rebuilt.