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38th Ave

82 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 38th Ave, between 1907 and 1956, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks.

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What keeps coming up

  • Schools11School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1950s6
    Thirty-eighth Avenue lot bought from H. Herbst for a school · 1950
  2. 1940s3
    City to take land between Quintara and Ortega Streets · 1946
  3. 1930s8
    Ruth Falconer paid for school land at Ulloa and Thirty-eighth Avenue · 1930
  4. 1920s52
    John Carrig paid $1,000 for school land on Thirty-eighth Avenue · 1929
  5. 1910s11
    Sidewalk widths set on Geary Street and Point Lobos Avenue · 1914
  6. 1900s2
    Street levels to be changed on Fulton Street and nearby avenues · 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