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42nd Ave

62 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 42nd Ave, between 1908 and 1981, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, fire stations, schools.

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What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Fire stations5Engine houses and fire stations.
  • Schools3School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Taxis and garages2Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s2
    Speed limit set on Point Lobos Avenue · 1981
  2. 1950s3
    Vacant lots bought on Forty-second Avenue north of Taraval Street · 1952
  3. 1940s6
    Carl Gellert buys city land near Wawona Street for $425 · 1946
  4. 1930s3
    A resolution naming only Forty-second Avenue and Geary Street · 1930
  5. 1920s35
    School land bought from John Kingston on Forty-second Avenue · 1926
  6. 1910s8
    Sidewalk widths reset on Geary Street and Point Lobos Avenue · 1916
  7. 1900s5
    McSheehy Bros. paid $7,954.00 for finishing the Oceanside School · 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