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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 19th St, between 1906 and 1979, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, schools.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 19th St, between 1906 and 1979
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.14
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.9
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.5
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.5
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.4
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s2
    Folsom and Howard Streets to be resurfaced between Third and Nineteenth · 1979
  2. 1960s4
    David L. Vickery allowed a fence on Rhode Island Street · 1960
  3. 1950s8
    Diamond Street lot bought from Erna E. Grosch for a playground · 1950
  4. 1940s10
    Up to $100,000 to take land for the Eureka Valley Playground · 1949
  5. 1930s17
    Land at Nineteenth and Vermont streets taken for Patrick Henry School · 1934
  6. 1920s29
    Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry · 1928
  7. 1910s38
    Payment to Alfred H. Grant for the Douglass school lot approved · 1910
  8. 1900s12
    Archbishop Riordan's offer of land for the Marshall School accepted · 1907

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

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Overview

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