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29th St

24 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 29th St, between 1910 and 1969, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, pg&e and the utilities, streetcars and transit.

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What keeps coming up

  • Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
  • Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Street lights2Lighting a street, block by block.
  • Schools2School sites bought, built and repaired.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s2
    Streets closed for the Bernal Heights Fair and St. Paul's festival · 1969
  2. 1950s1
    Fortunato Podesta buys Twenty-ninth Street land for $4,500 · 1953
  3. 1940s2
    Closing of parts of Twenty-ninth Street and Day Street taken up · 1947
  4. 1930s1
    Slow signs approved at Powell and Union streets and San Jose Avenue · 1931
  5. 1920s10
    Meyer Bros. paid $11,635 for land in Stanford Heights · 1927
  6. 1910s8
    Carnahan & Mulford paid $6,150 for the Glenn Park School · 1913

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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