Time Summary:
0:28 Interview starts

0:40 Relationship to Santa Cruz

1:17 Description of office building in county bank, and work at the time

2:24 Readying for World Series, and previous experience of earthquakes

3:50 Length of earthquake, and gradual understanding of exceptional circumstances

4:36 Fear for building falling, and leaving the building

5:00 Workmate trips, and three colleagues stop to help before collapsing doorway

5:48 Description of scene looking across Cooper St., including Cooper House

6:15 Experience of scene outside, "like a Fellini film"

8:20 Reflections upon the days and weeks following

9:07 Returning to home on Myrtle St.

9:59 Keys and wallet trapped in office

10:20 Walking home, destruction on Myrtle St.

11:47 Description of encounters with people along Myrtle St., their stories

13:04 Gas leaks, concerns about cars driving

13:41 Minor damage to house

14:03 Myrtle St. in subsequent days, media interest in the street

14:57 Helicopters landing in Neary Lagoon

15:09 Aftershocks on Myrtle St.

15:28 Experience of aftershocks, and "learning what somebody with PTSD feels"

16:50 Stoppage of work in following days, description of chainlink fence around downtown, and volunteers' efforts

18:22 Anecdote about volunteering for Red Cross with out-of-town volunteers

20:36 Friend who worked with Vision Santa Cruz to re-envisage downtown Santa Cruz

21:49 Description of Vision SC's vision

23:16 Growing understanding of significance of quake, and images from the Bay

25:28 Difficulties of personal items being stuck in county bank building

26:07 Deep hurt of losing buildings

26:58 Difficulties of limited exit routes from the County

27:36 Community cohesion, neighborhood cookouts

29:46 The Holy Cross church steeple

30:45 Downtown buildings, and the remaining "holes" refilled

31:33 Community's memories, reflections, conversations

32:34 Amnesia for communal cohesion

33:09 Returning to downtown office after thirty years, and comparison with pre-quake downtown

34:16 Contemporary community spirit

35:46 Another friend in Vision Santa Cruz, and efforts to diminish visual reminders of the quake

36:52 Difficulties reconnecting to the quake, and difficulties connecting with post-quake moment of communal bonding

37:24 Personal precautions, reflections on wildfires

39:07 Reflections on technology then and now

40:46 Reflections thirty years on

43:20 Story of Bookshop and community efforts to save the store