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Bancroft Ave

54 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bancroft Ave, between 1921 and 1971, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, parks and playgrounds.

54
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bancroft Ave, between 1921 and 1971
Most of them in the 1920s · 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
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.9
Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.8
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.7
Street lightsLighting a street, block by block.4
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s6
    City takes over the roadway on Bancroft Avenue · 1971
  2. 1950s2
    Proposed: a Southern Pacific spur track on Bancroft Avenue · 1955
  3. 1940s3
    City takes over Keith Street between Armstrong and Carroll Avenues · 1949
  4. 1930s20
    $14,500 for a new sewer in Ingalls Street · 1931
  5. 1920s23
    Payment of $400 to Theresa Longwenus for Carroll Avenue playground land approved · 1923

The most notable decisions

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Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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

Armstrong AveSame block of the map, 39 decisions on recordTompkins Ave52 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingNapoleon St51 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingOctavia50 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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