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17th St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 17th St, between 1906 and 1976, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, streetcars and transit, land bought and sold.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 17th St, between 1906 and 1976
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.21
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.18
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.18
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.9
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.7
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.7

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1970s4
    Seventeenth Street closed for good to expand the sewage plant · 1976
  2. 1950s5
    Proposed, approved later: Walter Johnson offers $2M to rebuild the Palace of Fine Arts · 1959
  3. 1940s4
    $12,000 shifted for emergency overhead wiring on Sixteenth and Seventeenth · 1949
  4. 1930s1
    A. H. Domreis buys a Roosevelt Way lot for $250 · 1935
  5. 1920s61
    Payment to Carl A. Ahlman for Seventeenth Street school land approved · 1925
  6. 1910s24
    Proposed: payment of $50,315.79 to F. Rolandi for building the Stockton Street car line · 1914
  7. 1900s21
    $5,000 to be paid to Ellen Dore for Corbett Avenue land · 1909

The most notable decisions

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The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city

See also

Streets near it on the record

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Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there