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37th Ave

106 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 37th Ave, between 1906 and 1967, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, oil tanks and boilers, schools.

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What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Oil tanks and boilers3Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Schools3School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Freeways2The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.
  • Police stations2Police stations and the sites bought for them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s4
    $80,000 and $20,000 adopted for lots on Thirty-seventh Avenue · 1963
  2. 1950s2
    City takes over the new roadway on Thirty-seventh Avenue · 1954
  3. 1940s6
    Lee Dougan leases 9.67 acres near Sloat and Sunset Boulevards · 1947
  4. 1930s13
    Half the old Lafayette School lot goes to the public library · 1931
  5. 1920s46
    City to take Pine Lake Park blocks near Wawona and Yerba · 1928
  6. 1910s24
    Drivers must keep four feet clear of stopping street cars · 1913
  7. 1900s11
    Bay View Land Company's deed opens three new avenues south · 1908

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