From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 19, 1989:

Former Lawrence residents who had relocated to the San Francisco area were reporting back to their former hometown today on their experiences in the recent earthquake. David and Winifred Heron, who had moved to California in 1974 and who were now living in Santa Cruz, the town nearest the epicenter, reported they were still cleaning up the mess from the quake. “You should have seen the kitchen floor,” Mrs. Heron said. “We’ve taken barrels full of shards to the dump.” Former Lawrence resident Jay Mitchell and his wife, who had been living in San Francisco’s Marina district, had lost nearly everything in the quake. “The Marina district was the hardest-hit place in the city,” said Mitchell, who had grown up in Lawrence and was a 1976 LHS graduate. “Our apartment building didn’t collapse, but the foundation took a pretty good shot. Right now, it’s leaning to one side.” Mitchell said the city had moved bulldozers into the area and that their building would probably be one of the structures taken down.