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The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

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The Earthquake Girl

· April 18, 1906

She picked her own birthday: the day San Francisco shook to pieces in 1906.

One family member was called the “earthquake girl” because her chosen birthday was the day of the great San Francisco earthquake (April 18, 1906). Alvie became City Attorney for Watsonville.

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