39th Ave
115 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 39th Ave, between 1908 and 1978, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks12Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Schools12School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- The rules for this street changed6Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Land bought and sold5Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Sewers3Sewers 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.
- 1970s1Part of Thirty-ninth Avenue closed for a school playground · 1978
- 1960s3Left turns banned from Sloat Boulevard into Thirty-ninth Avenue · 1967
- 1950s3A five-room house bought on Ortega Street near Thirty-ninth Avenue · 1950
- 1940s15City to take land between Quintara and Ortega Streets · 1946
- 1930s19Four owners paid for school land near Castro and Clipper streets · 1930
- 1920s53Jacob and Joseph Harris paid $4,323.42 for school land · 1929
- 1910s18Carl G. Larsen's offer of library land accepted for $7,000 · 1914
- 1900s3Street levels to be changed on Fulton Street and nearby avenues · 1908
The most notable decisions
Four owners paid for school land near Castro and Clipper streets
Resolution · 23 June 1930 ↗Peter Markatos's Ulloa Street lot bought for a school, $1,500
Resolution · 9 June 1930 ↗$9,000 paid to John Leslie Ryan for Ulloa Street school land
Resolution · 19 May 1930 ↗Jacob and Joseph Harris paid $4,323.42 for school land
Resolution · 23 December 1929 ↗Jacob and Joseph Harris sell a school site for $4,323.42
Resolution · 16 December 1929 ↗Arthur Elvin paid $2,800 for school land on Thirty-ninth Avenue
Resolution · 17 June 1929 ↗C. D. Lieb paid for his Thirty-ninth Avenue school land
Resolution · 29 April 1929 ↗Evelyn L. Kiley paid for her Thirty-ninth Avenue school land
Resolution · 29 April 1929 ↗Land bought from C. D. Lieb on Thirty-ninth Avenue for schools
Resolution · 22 April 1929 ↗Carl G. Larsen's offer of library land accepted for $7,000
Ordinance · 14 September 1914 ↗
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