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...area's lush walnut and apricot groves, burgeoning industrial base and commuting proximity to "Silicone Valley." But some Hollister boosters have a catchier slogan for their community: THE EARTHQUAKE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. Indeed, the San Andreas fault, largest of the 32 active and inactive incisions in San Benito County, stretches out its tightened muscles several times a day, sending shudders through the sandstone and loamy soil. Most of the temblors are minor, and only the 275 seismographs and other instruments screwed into the soil hereabouts pick up the rumble. The equipment is so sensitive that it can distinguish...
About once a month, though, the juice glasses at Jerry's Restaurant on San Felipe Road rattle in the rack, and the forest of real estate signs on San Benito Street shiver at the crest of a quake scoring 3 or more on the Richter scale. When a 5.9 quake snaked through town in August 1979, Tricia Brem was in labor at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; her bed rolled across the room and slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez...
Denying seismophobia is a matter of civic pride in San Benito County. Explains Edna Martin, manager of the Howard Manor apartments in Hollister: "You get used to the small ones. You feel the rumble, but that is about all. Five years ago, the water in the pool flowed back and forth, and we had to fill it. But I try not to panic my tenants. We have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety...
Downtown Hollister could be mistaken for a Trailways comfort stop. Diagonal parking off San Benito Street allows pickup-truck owners to park comfortably and shop at shabby stores with dusty windows. Normally San Benito Street is dark by 9 o'clock, except for the glare of neon from car dealerships and fast-food kiosks. Two blocks away, in a tree-shaded neighborhood of modest bungalows, is the new county administration building. The old building, a Victorian pile put up in 1886, was destroyed in 1961. You guessed it: an earthquake and 400 aftershocks did the damage...
...they are divided between James Coco and Victor Garber. Garber is the rich little rich boy who first stirs Belle's precocious nubility. Coco, a clown in the grand lineage of Bert Lahr, is wonderfully funny throughout, especially as a Teutonic film director with a disconcerting resemblance to Benito Mussolini...