20th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 20th St, between 1906 and 1980, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, land bought and sold, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks18Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Land bought and sold11Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Schools9School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Blasting permits5Permission 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.
- 1980s2Emergency sewer and pavement repairs ordered on Carolina Street · 1980
- 1970s1Port allowed to fence part of Twentieth Street east of Illinois · 1976
- 1950s1Stop signs at Bryant and Twentieth Streets until signals arrive · 1951
- 1940s2City land at Texas and Mississippi Streets opened to light industry · 1946
- 1930s6Closed parts of Nineteenth Street deeded to the John Center Company · 1931
- 1920s30Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry · 1928
- 1910s62$4,470 paid to James Stewart for Daniel Webster School land · 1916
- 1900s16Western Pacific Railway paid $14,700 for a Connecticut Street school lot · 1908
The most notable decisions
$4,470 paid to James Stewart for Daniel Webster School land
Resolution · 10 July 1916 ↗$10,500 paid to Marie C. Erickson for a school site
Resolution · 19 June 1916 ↗$3,500 paid to Julia U. Miser for a school lot
Resolution · 19 June 1916 ↗Marie C. Erickson's Missouri Street lot bought for Daniel Webster School
Resolution · 19 June 1916 ↗$1,500 paid to Charles Michael Young for Daniel Webster School land
Resolution · 19 June 1916 ↗$4,150 paid to Albert Johnson for Daniel Webster School land
Resolution · 12 June 1916 ↗Julia U. Miser's land bought for $2,600 for Daniel Webster School
Resolution · 5 June 1916 ↗$10,000 paid to Patrick Howard for Daniel Webster School land
Resolution · 1 May 1916 ↗$10,500 paid to Hugh G. Hamilton for Daniel Webster School land
Resolution · 1 May 1916 ↗$7,500 set aside for Hultgren land for the Daniel Webster School
Resolution · 24 April 1916 ↗
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