Before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , nearly all the kids attending the McKinley school ( now McKinley Elementary School ) at 1025 14th Street ( at Castro ) were Finnish . Following the earthquake , a large amount of Finns from San Francisco and elsewhere moved to Berkeley , where a Finnish community had been established already before the earthquake . A large part of the early Berkeley population was Finnish
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
St. Francis Lutheran Church