Time Summary:
0:28 Interview starts

0:42 Raised in Santa Cruz Mountains, returned to live after attending UCSC

1:09 Experienced earthquake while on the phone at work at the SC Sentinel's Church Street Office

2:15 After shaking subsides, coworkers relocate outside and set to work covering the earthquake

2:45 Goes to cover San Lorenzo Valley with Shmuel Thaler, after facing a lot of traffic in town

3:45 Reporting in the mountains

4:10 Family, wife and son, were together in Freedom, had had plans to watch the baseball game

4:45 Was able to use the Zayante Fire department to check in with family and then keep working

5:10 Arrives home after midnight to spend night on lawn with family

5:25 Sleep interrupted by frightening aftershocks

5:46 People were wandering around a lot, shocked and unsure what to do

6:30 Returns to work to type in the wreckage

7:14 The Santa Cruz Sentinel, aided by San Jose Mercury, didn't miss a full day of publication

7:37 Returns to reporting on downtown and city politics

8:16 Big wig visits in the aftermath, including George Bush

8:58 Didn't realize significance until shortly after quake

9:25 Birth of the idea for using pavillion tents for businesses to function


10:24 Bookshop Santa Cruz evacuates books and accepts community donations

10:57 Describes other businesses in other pavilions

11:30 Some people left town, some people knuckled down

12:13 Reporters love big stories

12:19 Fractious Santa Cruz politics transitioned to shared efforts around Vision Santa Cruz

13:50 Emergency planning on people's minds at first but then faded

14:30 Ciel Cirillo, former redevelopment agency director, had big role in reshaping Santa Cruz

15:28 The earthquake as a generational marker

16:40 Santa Cruz hugely isolated after earthquake

17:12 Compares human existence to the scale of earth's forces

18:16 Praises the Sentinel's coverage of the earthquake

18:40 A lot of civilian and celebrity attention paid to Santa Cruz

19:45 Emphasizes that people really did band together

20:22 Pacific Avenue blocked off made the impact feel real

21:07 Interest in changing property ownership in downtown

21:53 Movie theaters brought people downtown again

22:09 John Livingstone, owner of Logos, was the first person to rebuild and reopen on Pacific

23:01 Reported on the Cooper House demolition