18th Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 18th Ave, between 1906 and 1988, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, schools, taxis and garages.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Schools7School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Taxis and garages5Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Parks and playgrounds4Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s1Cabrillo Street closed for play while Argonne School yard is resurfaced · 1988
- 1960s2Geary Boulevard parking garage deal approved with the Parking Authority · 1962
- 1950s1Spots on three avenues near Taraval Street, no action stated · 1958
- 1940s1Raymond aid lien on Eighteenth Avenue put behind a mortgage · 1940
- 1930s17Firehouse on Eighteenth Avenue and James Lick Junior High School ordered · 1930
- 1920s70Anderson & Ringrose paid $29,887.50 for building the Le Conte School · 1926
- 1910s20$120,000 for playgrounds passed, including a new Mission site · 1916
- 1900s8Money set aside to repave Folsom, Davis and Tehama Streets · 1909
The most notable decisions
Firehouse on Eighteenth Avenue and James Lick Junior High School ordered
Ordinance · 20 January 1930 ↗Anderson & Ringrose paid $29,887.50 for building the Le Conte School
Resolution · 29 March 1926 ↗$120,000 for playgrounds passed, including a new Mission site
Motion · 26 May 1916 ↗School block at Bay and Polk streets bought for $112,000
Resolution · 10 November 1919 ↗J. W. Egan's land near Cabrillo Street bought for a school
Resolution · 3 March 1919 ↗Geary Boulevard parking garage deal approved with the Parking Authority
Resolution · passed · 25 June 1962 ↗Shops allowed on Eighteenth Avenue just north of Geary Street
Ordinance · 17 December 1928 ↗$4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street
Resolution · 13 June 1910 ↗Eighteenth Avenue school land traded to Meyer Bros for Miraloma Park
Ordinance · 3 September 1935 ↗$148,000 for Bay Shore Boulevard from Silver Avenue to Paul Avenue
Resolution · 26 March 1928 ↗
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