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Excelsior Ave

48 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Excelsior Ave, between 1907 and 1981, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about schools, street name changes, land bought and sold.

48
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Excelsior Ave, between 1907 and 1981
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.6
Street name changesWhen a street was given a different name.4
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.4
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.2
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.2
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s4
    Parking meters set on Kearny Street between Bay and Francisco · 1980
  2. 1950s9
    City takes over new roadways on Delta, Detroit and Prague Streets · 1958
  3. 1940s1
    Flores family offers $836.60 to clear an Athens Street lien · 1941
  4. 1930s1
    Lyell Street extension declared an open public street · 1931
  5. 1920s7
    Peter T. Shewbridge paid for school land on Paris Street · 1925
  6. 1910s18
    Payment of $3,500 to Louise Laville for land for the Monroe School approved · 1919
  7. 1900s8
    Proposed, approved later: Piazza and De Stefano families to give land to extend Manchester Street · 1907

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

London StSame block of the map, 17 decisions on recordBrazil AveSame block of the map, 10 decisions on recordBuena Vista46 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingFelton St46 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