1986 Warren L. Simmons (d.2006 at 79), developer of Pier 39 in SF, opened with his son and daughter a restaurant named Chevy’s in Alameda, Ca. Within a decade it expanded to 38 eateries. The Simmons family sold the chain to PepsiCo. In 1993. (SFC, 10/3/03, p.E3)(SFC, 6/23/06, p.B9)
1989 Oct 17, The 7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake [Watsonville] hit the Bay Area minutes before the start of a World Series game at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. 67 people died and 3,000 were injured. It caused $7 billion worth of damage. The Spreckels Temple of Music in Golden Gate Park was damaged and later restored. 28,000 structures were damaged and several freeways ruined. 42 people died on the Cypress Freeway. At the train station in SF Dr. Margaret McChesney commandeered a tour bus to take frightened passengers home and navigated the driver safely through barricades of cars and gangs of marauding youths on 3rd St. In 1999 new measuring methods changed the magnitude to 6.9. (SFC, 4/15/96,A-6)(SFC, 10/17/96, A15)(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A13)(AP, 10/17/97)(AR,9/12/98)(HN, 10/17/98)(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A21)
1989 Oct 21, Rescue workers in Oakland, Calif., pulled longshoreman Buck Helm alive from the wreckage of the Nimitz Freeway, part of which had collapsed during the Oct. 17 earthquake. Helm died less than a month later. (AP, 10/21/99)
1986 Aug, Dr. Clifford Stoll, the computer systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley, discovered computer break-ins. He monitored them for approximately 12 months and realized that the had confused Lawrence Berkeley with Lawrence Livermore.'' A West German citizen used global communications networks to secretly gain access to more than 30 computers belonging to the US military and military contractors. (http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/6.68.html)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.64)
Rizzo in a box
African Astronaut
[the rapidly lightproof ovariectomy]
Originally posted by ~L J~
I never understood the reference “rag”. Lol
its a rag filled with chloroform, a chemical that should knock you out quite quickly after you inhale. once you are unconscious, I will take your body to the altar I have constructed out of the bones of the innocent.
Originally posted by Rizzo in a box
its a rag filled with chloroform, a chemical that should knock you out quite quickly after you inhale. once you are unconscious, I will take your body to the altar I have constructed out of the bones of the innocent.
Sounds fun! At least I’d get a few hours of sleep. ;-)
Rizzo in a box
African Astronaut
[the rapidly lightproof ovariectomy]
Originally posted by ~L J~
Sounds fun! At least I’d get a few hours of sleep. ;-)
actually you will be my undying slave for all eternity, made to do my dark bidding. like I've told the other undead slaves, I do give some benefits, like smoke breaks. unfortunately you won't have lungs. Also I haven't really figured out what I'm going to do with my necromantic army yet so you don't really have any duties. I need to get a jedi lawyer and accountant and maybe a couple of other vampires, then you can sign your soul away.
