19th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 19th St, between 1906 and 1979, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, schools.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks14Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Schools5School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Protests and appeals5A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Oil tanks and boilers4Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s2Folsom and Howard Streets to be resurfaced between Third and Nineteenth · 1979
- 1960s4David L. Vickery allowed a fence on Rhode Island Street · 1960
- 1950s8Diamond Street lot bought from Erna E. Grosch for a playground · 1950
- 1940s10Up to $100,000 to take land for the Eureka Valley Playground · 1949
- 1930s17Land at Nineteenth and Vermont streets taken for Patrick Henry School · 1934
- 1920s29Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry · 1928
- 1910s38Alfred H. Grant to be paid for the Douglass school lot · 1910
- 1900s12Archbishop Riordan's offer of land for the Marshall School accepted · 1907
The most notable decisions
Diamond Street lot bought from Erna E. Grosch for a playground
Resolution · 10 July 1950 ↗Up to $100,000 to take land for the Eureka Valley Playground
Resolution · 16 May 1949 ↗Land at Nineteenth and Vermont streets taken for Patrick Henry School
Resolution · 17 December 1934 ↗School land on Arkansas Street bought from Western Pacific for $750
Resolution · 8 June 1931 ↗Alfred H. Grant to be paid for the Douglass school lot
Resolution · 5 July 1910 ↗Sarah Patek to be paid for the John Swett school lot
Resolution · 27 June 1910 ↗Archbishop Riordan's offer of land for the Marshall School accepted
Ordinance · 16 September 1907 ↗Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry
Ordinance · 1 March 1928 ↗Light industry allowed on a block at Nineteenth and Potrero
Ordinance · 14 February 1928 ↗Land at Nineteenth and Potrero to be taken for city railway
Resolution · 6 October 1913 ↗
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