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Fall Asleep as a Telephone Repairman During the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Step into the shattered streets of San Francisco in the aftermath of the great earthquake of 1906. Tonight, you are a telephone repairman working to reconnect a city thrown into silence. With damaged poles leaning over broken streets and tangled wires stretching between battered buildings, you spend your days climbing, testing connections, repairing copper lines, and slowly restoring the network that allows people to reach one another again. As San Francisco begins the long process of recovery, you work alongside fellow repairmen, operators, laborers, and ordinary residents trying to restore some sense of…