A flat kitchen with a narrow wine cooler, seen close and low, the glass door catching the light.

San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area

Wine cooler repair in Marina.

Flats on filled ground that shook hard in 1989, where a wine column is anchored to the wall and its racks carry stops, since what an earthquake does to a cabinet full of bottles is the first worry of collectors here.

(844) 709-0727

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San Francisco
Three things about Marina
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What Marina does
to a wine cooler.

Much of the Marina stands on landfill, mostly mud and sand dredged from the bay, which leaves it prone to liquefaction in strong earthquakes.

In the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that fill liquefied badly, and the damage in the district included a small firestorm.

With water mains broken, firefighters pumped water straight from the bay.

Before the houses came, this ground held the 1915 Panama–Pacific fair, a world's fair marking San Francisco's rebuilding after 1906.

Also known as Marina District.

All of San Francisco Bay Area

Apartments and studios

In a small apartment the wine cooler stands wherever it fits, in a closet, a hallway or beside the oven, and a cabinet with no room to shed its heat runs almost constantly, so clearance at the vents is the first thing a visit checks.

On the water

Along salt water the air eats at a wine cooler's condenser, hinge pins and rack slides, above all on a bar near an open slider or a lanai, and a slow loss of cooling there is checked for corroded tubing and a pitted coil.

Tower living

A tower's generator keeps the elevators and pumps running but rarely the apartments, so a wine cooler on a high floor warms with the unit in an outage, and the best plan is to keep its door shut and let the insulation hold the bottles steady as long as it can.