About this time in 1965 (April 29), a 6.7 earthquake rattled the Puget Sound area. Many of us remember where we were, what we were doing, when it hit at 8:28 a.m.
Charles Herring (Seattle’s first TV anchorman) and Assistant News Director Ted Bryant anchored KING’s coverage on the Early Edition that evening.
(Bill Taylor submitted the link to KING 5’s report.) As I recall, the damage to the dome of the Tacoma Union Station depot was major. In fact, the Olympian newspaper reported:
In Tacoma, 30 miles to the south, one of the main downtown streets, Pacific Avenue, was littered with bricks and debris. The Union Railroad station apparently suffered the worst damage. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, successor to the famed “Galloping Gertie” which fell into Puget Sound during a windstorm nearly a quarter of a century ago, withstood the shock without serious damage. A toll taker said light standards vibrated “like fishpoles,” snapping off the glass fixtures. Traffic was halted for nearly an hour while broken glass was swept up and the bridge was checked.
From the News Tribune:
