Ansel Adams, age 4, survived the deadly 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but was tossed face-first into a garden wall, giving him what his friend Cedric Wright would call an "earthquake nose."
Due to the earthquake of 1906, San Franciscans had to delay their grand plans for what was to become the Panama Pacific International Exposition. But by 1909 the city had recovered sufficiently for its residents to focus on the exhibition again.
Seabiscuit's unlikely career illuminates the precarious economic conditions that defined America in the 1930s and explores the behind-the-scenes world of thoroughbred racing.
The spirited rivalry between Seabiscuit and War Admiral was also a battle between the era’s dominant Eastern racing establishment and the upstart Western one.
