who got his son to drive him, who was visiting from kansas, got his son to drive him to petaluma to fornk, cashed a check $5,000 and bought a pack and gave it to people to clean up. to get the bodies out. build them. and the money that was left, he divided among the churches to help people. back into business the minute they could. ,ne store, which is now a pr later appear, is now barnes & noble, was down in this direction destroyed. that they got some goods out in hr and and set up, literally, a trunk sale, doing business selling merchandise from there. rebuilt.re there were two downtown buildings. well, three downtown buildings in those days. railroad square was part of the downtown that survived. the one behind me, the empire building, which was a bank holding in those years, built in 1904, badly damaged but came back. down the street to the east, the --ed building, which barnett these two survived both earthquakes. down at the railroad tracks, a stone building. one of our signature stone buildings built by stonemasons. italian stonemasons in the early 1900s. it is a western hotel. now