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Earthquake shacks, 1906, San Francisco Image is in the public domain
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After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Army built 5,610 redwood and fir "relief houses" to accommodate 20,000 displaced people. Today fewer than
50 remain. The residents who live in them swear the sturdy redwood frames built in a day could last another 115 years.
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