17th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 17th St, between 1906 and 1976, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, streetcars and transit, land bought and sold.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools21School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Streetcars and transit18Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Land bought and sold18Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s4Seventeenth Street closed for good to expand the sewage plant · 1976
- 1950s5Walter Johnson offers $2M to rebuild the Palace of Fine Arts · 1959
- 1940s4$12,000 shifted for emergency overhead wiring on Sixteenth and Seventeenth · 1949
- 1930s1A. H. Domreis buys a Roosevelt Way lot for $250 · 1935
- 1920s61Carl A. Ahlman to be paid for Seventeenth Street school land · 1925
- 1910s24F. Rolandi paid $50,315.79 for building the Stockton Street car line · 1914
- 1900s21$5,000 to be paid to Ellen Dore for Corbett Avenue land · 1909
The most notable decisions
F. Rolandi paid $50,315.79 for building the Stockton Street car line
Resolution · 13 October 1914 ↗Carl A. Ahlman to be paid for Seventeenth Street school land
Resolution · 21 September 1925 ↗Bridget Hurley paid $6,000 for Henry Durant School land
Resolution · 27 April 1925 ↗John A. Lacey paid for Seventeenth Street land for Everett School
Resolution · 3 November 1924 ↗Carlo Marelli and Axel Falk paid for Everett School land
Resolution · 27 October 1924 ↗Joseph Campbell's Dehon Street land bought for a school, $7,760
Resolution · 20 October 1924 ↗John A. Lacy's Seventeenth Street land bought for a school, $6,500
Resolution · 20 October 1924 ↗Margaret M. Martin paid for Dehon Street land for Everett School
Resolution · 14 October 1924 ↗Margaret M. Martin's Dehon Street land bought for a school, $7,500
Resolution · 29 September 1924 ↗J. Paul Smith paid for Dehon Street land for Everett School
Resolution · 29 September 1924 ↗
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