All my life friends in the Bay Area have fretted over ”The Big One”!

Sooner or later, there’s gonna be a quake that’ll make 1906 look like a high school dance, they’d say.

Well, the big one came, it was called the Tech boom, and no one really noticed as Herb Caen’s Bagdad-by-the-Bay ended up flatter than a crepe suzette.

Plus ça change, plus ça change for the worse.