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15th St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 15th St, between 1906 and 1956, 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, paving and grading.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks19Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers14Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Blasting permits5Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Taxis and garages5Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Clinics and hospitals5Clinics, health centres and hospitals.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1950s1
    Fifteenth Street between Florida and Alabama closed for good · 1956
  2. 1930s18
    City block on De Haro Street to be leased out · 1937
  3. 1920s48
    Valencia Street baseball park proposed as a Mission district playground · 1927
  4. 1910s36
    Louis P. Werner paid $33,000 for the Marshall School site · 1912
  5. 1900s17
    City takes over the new roadway on Ninth Avenue · 1908

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

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