Time Summary:
0:28 Interview starts; Ilene and Kenny describe their occupations then and now

1:07 Ilene and Kenny's relationship to Santa Cruz, and their respective homes in Florida and Los Angeles

1:50 Ilene describes experiencing the earthquake in a UCSC graduate seminar in Kresge college

4:04 Earthquake stops.

4:20 Leaving building, considerations for Ilene’s mother and son

4:56 Observing smoke from downtown, and heading home

5:29 Crossing the bridge and getting home to house in Seabright

5:49 Ilene's mother, son, son's best friend camping out at the house

6:03 Ilene's mother's experience at after school program

6:50 Ilene's father’s experience

7:40 Kenny describes experiencing the earthquake at the Credit Union, and the length of the shaking

8:43 Objects flying around the room

9:12 Kenny leaves out the back door onto the river levee

9:33 Describes seeing scene outside

10:04 Kenny gets home; the cat's reaction

10:44 Scene inside the house

11:23 Kenny describes waiting for Ilene and her father, communication difficulties

11:52 Kenny's mother calls from LA, describes seeing scene from the San Francisco Marina on the news

12:47 Description of oven, now in the MAH

13:52 Lost record collection and ceramics

14:29 Effects on son and son's friend

15:10 Gas leak and being forced to leave the house

16:19 Ilene's parents' experience

16:49 Understanding of significance of earthquake when it hit, and impressions of downtown

17:13 Learning about impacts through radio

17:57 Seeing downtown in the following days

18:17 People returning to businesses in the following days

18:41 Kenny's mom relaying updated information about effects on the wider region

19:08 Memories of George H.W. Bush's visit

19:24 Kenny discusses the Credit Union building

20:20 Kenny returns to work in the next week

20:38 Kenny gets access to clothing store in downtown area

22:08 Describe "tent city" of businesses, and the Palomar restaurant's outdoor kitchen

23:52 Ilene reflects on impacts on graduate student community at UCSC

24:30 Ilene reflects on gratefulness

25:11 Describes Patrice Vecchione and the Gault school children's "Fault Lines" poetry collection

26:04 Couple consider history of local businesses in Santa Cruz

26:59 Conversations upon returning to classes at UCSC, and discussion of ways in which information was received and circulated

28:01 Kenny reflects on the devastation of the earthquake, and the rebuilding effort over the following decade

29:05 Ilene compares experience growing up with hurricanes in Florida and the earthquake

30:08 Discussion of personal precautions

32:50 Reflections on passage of time, and changes to downtown

34:10 Difficulty of rebuilding downtown, and people's hesitancy to return to downtown over the following decade

35:02 Silicon Valley context and the local economy

35:22 Togetherness following the quake, and later dissipation of community cohesion

36:22 Hiking to the quake's epicenter, and comparison of Nisene Marks with memories of downtown after the quake

37:08 Precarity of infrastructure

37:58 Comparison of housing that did and didn't collapse

38:43 Meaning-making and the passage of time