Gilroy, CA

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A substantial earthquake (preliminary magnitude 5.2) struck near Gilroy, CA at 10 p.m. Monday. Gilroy is just outside San Jose and the quake shook hard enough to disrupt baseball games and the San Jose/Colorado hockey game.

Anyone here know what else Gilroy is famous for??

[Slippery Pedro]

It makes monkeys sing and vampires run.

[Ytown Tribe fan]

Question: if the entire town is leveled by a quake, will the sign at the city limits read "Gilroy was here"?

I thought that Gilroy was the "Artichoke Capital of the World" or the "Garlic Capital of the World". I think it's garlic. Yep...Castroville is the "Artichoke Capital of the World".

"I can't get enough garlic"
Ted Williams, hall of fame baseball player

Gilroy, California (garlic capital of the world), "is the only town in America where you can marinate a steak just by hanging it out on the clothesline."
Will Rogers, famous actor

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Anyone who knows garlic and baseball is good by me. ;)

[Slippery Pedro]

Geez, no one got the "Pleasant Valley" Sunday joke?

[SmedIndy]

Originally posted by Slippery Pedro
Geez, no one got the "Pleasant Valley" Sunday joke?

Cheer up, sleepy Jean....we're not your stepping stone.

[spitball]

I got the Monkees joke....
I've also driven through Gilmore. It smells like my Italian mother in law's house.
Steinbeck country.

[Gosfgiants]

Every year Gilroy has a giant garlic festival. I have yet to make it down for it. It always seems to sneak up on me. The skinny is that you get just about garlic everything, including garlic ice cream. I am not making this up.

I felt that quake. With earthquakes you can hear them as well feel them. I felt the first small temor and head for the doorway next to the computer. Quakes are fact of life in No. California, but that's the first one I had felt in about a year and a half.

[Ytown Tribe fan]

Were you there in '89? I was visiting my mom, who lives in the City and that one was more than a cup-rattler. She had a nice crack in her garage floor after that one.

I can still hear Al Michaels trying to keep it together. His days as a Giants announcer must have helped a lot.

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Originally posted by Gosfgiants
Every year Gilroy has a giant garlic festival. I have yet to make it down for it. It always seems to sneak up on me. The skinny is that you get just about garlic everything, including garlic ice cream. I am not making this up.A friend bought me a couple of collections of recipes from the garlic festival. You're right, there is garlic everything. There's just something cool about reading a recipe that calls for 50 or more cloves of garlic.

[Gosfgiants]

I was still living in New York in '89. I didn't move here until '96. There are still plenty of folks here for the '89 quake. I've heard some really interesting stories.

The largest quakes I've been through have been in the 5 range like last night. They have been centered 30-60 miles away. The last decent size shaker scared me. The quake was a 5.2 centered in Napa. I had just turned off the light to go to sleep and the whole building shook for about 15 seconds. I lay there wondering if I should head for the doorway. Then it stopped. I flipped over and fell asleep.

[BONEmentality]

I live in Hayward, which isnt far from Gilroy obviously cuz I felt it. My desk moved and so did some other things, I was just waaaaiting for it to get worse. :bounce:

[gyb13]

side note: BONEmentality, welcome to the forum!