- Minutes after the quake hit, Pacific Avenue passersby become rescuers, streaming into the severly damaged Ford’s department store and searching frantically through the rubble for survivors. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Two days after the quake, governor George Deukmajian walks through downtown Santa Cruz rubble flanked by Rep. Leon Panetta, Santa Cruz Mayor Mardi Wormhoudt and Sam Farr. Also in the photo are officials Supervisors Fred Keeley, Jan Beautz, Gary Patton, and Robley Levy. emblyman Sam Farr, Supervisors Fred Keeley, Jan Beautz, Gary Patton and Robley Levy. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
The Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium serves as a shelter for displaced quake victims. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Hours after the 5:04 p.m. Loma Prieta quake knocked out power throughout the county, people line up outside a convenience store on Laurel and Washington streets in Santa Cruz to buy food, water and candles. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Edith Dominguez is placed in the back seat of a a police car and rushed to Dominican Hospital. Note the rescuer with his back to camera has used his green shirt as a tourniquet on the badly injured leg. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Highway Patrol officers inspect the Highway 1 bridge supports that have pierced the shaken and fallen, elevated highway over Harkins Slough in Watsonville. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Medical personnel give emergency treatment into the night to the injured in Watsonville City Plaza following the earthquake. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Pacific Avenue Mall between Church Street and Walnut Avenue looked like a war zone following the quake that hit at 5:04 p.m. October 17, 1989. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Pacific Avenue between Church Street and Walnut Avenue today. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel)
The Hihn Building on Lincoln Street at Pacific Avenue suffered catastrophic damage. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Today’s Hihn Hign Building looks very different. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Bricks from a collapsed wall of County Bank cover the sidewalk and parked car on Cooper Street across from the Cooper House shortly after the quake hit. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
Cooper House Building and Cooper Street today. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel)
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Minutes after the quake hit, Pacific Avenue passersby become rescuers, streaming into the severly damaged Ford’s department store and searching frantically through the rubble for survivors. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel file)
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By Dan Coyro | dcoyro@santacruzsentinel.com | Santa Cruz Sentinel
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Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked Santa Cruz County and the Bay Area.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel takes a look back through photos.
(Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel)
