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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 9th Ave, between 1906 and 1975, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 9th Ave, between 1906 and 1975
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 1930.62
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.8
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.7
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.5
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.4
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s3
    Ninth Avenue becomes a school playground on school days · 1974
  2. 1960s3
    $34,000 paid to the Roman Catholic Archbishop for parking land · 1964
  3. 1940s2
    Louis Epp bids $3,175 for city land on Ninth Avenue · 1946
  4. 1930s6
    Market Street Railroad to pay the city $2,020.42 from fares · 1933
  5. 1920s36
    Proposed: Market Street Railway paying the city a share of fares · 1921
  6. 1910s40
    Proposed: paying Pittsburg Valve Foundry for gate valves for fire water system · 1910
  7. 1900s30
    City takes over the new roadway on Ninth Avenue · 1908

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