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Geary St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Geary St, between 1907 and 1948, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Geary St, between 1907 and 1948
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.39
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.20
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.17
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.17
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.14
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.13

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1940s1
    Failed: proposal to buy the Geary Street carbarn for $98,000, defended by J. J. Phillips · 1948
  2. 1930s3
    $3,500 more for alterations to the Geary Street car barn · 1939
  3. 1920s47
    $123,997.32 set aside to build the Geary Street School · 1929
  4. 1910s66
    Payment of $73,223.18 to R. C. Storrie for Twin Peaks tunnel work approved · 1916
  5. 1900s3
    Proposed, approved later: Geary Street railway idle after refusing the men's $3.00 daily wage · 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

Streets near it on the record

Maiden LnSame block of the map, 68 decisions on recordGeary Blvd120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingGeneva Ave120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingFunston Ave120+ 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