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Ritch St

22 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ritch St, between 1909 and 1974, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1940s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good.

22
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ritch St, between 1909 and 1974
Most of them in the 1940s · 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 1930.9
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s2
    Ritch and Clara Streets closed for good · 1974
  2. 1950s1
    Ritch Street between Folsom and Harrison turned one-way northbound · 1953
  3. 1940s8
    Proposal to limit switching hours on the Bluxome Street spur track (outcome not in the record) · 1945
  4. 1920s7
    $5,125 for Ritch Street between Brannan and Townsend · 1929
  5. 1910s3
    Failed: proposal to allow George Poye a laundry on Ritch Street · 1914
  6. 1900s1
    Southern Pacific given a spur track on Ritch Street · 1909

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