48th Ave
82 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 48th Ave, between 1908 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, streetcars and transit, libraries.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers17Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Libraries4Branch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Taxis and garages2Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Angle parking on Noriega Street adds ten spaces · 1994
- 1970s2Merrie Way and Forty-eighth Avenue closed north of Point Lobos Avenue · 1975
- 1960s1Part of Forty-Eighth Avenue renamed Great Highway · 1961
- 1950s2Stop signs set at corners on Guerrero Street and Portola Drive · 1951
- 1940s7The city takes over Ulloa Street between Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth · 1944
- 1930s12Meyer Brothers gives the city a five-foot strip in Miraloma Park · 1932
- 1920s24Republic Supply to be paid $46,250 for Hetch Hetchy steel pipe · 1925
- 1910s31Mahoney Bros. paid $45,614.20 for the Van Ness Avenue railway · 1914
- 1900s2Adolph Sutro's estate allowed to blast along Cliff Avenue · 1908
The most notable decisions
Mahoney Bros. paid $45,614.20 for the Van Ness Avenue railway
Resolution · 8 June 1914 ↗$53,696 paid to Newsom, Wold & Kohn for Polytechnic High School
Resolution · 27 July 1914 ↗Carnahan & Mulford paid $9,909 for building the Columbus School
Resolution · 12 January 1914 ↗Republic Supply to be paid $46,250 for Hetch Hetchy steel pipe
Resolution · 7 December 1925 ↗Map approved for widening Point Lobos Avenue
Resolution · passed · 7 August 1922 ↗City accepts the Sutro estate's right of way at Forty-eighth Avenue
Ordinance · 30 June 1913 ↗Sutro estate gives a right of way toward the Golden Gate
Ordinance · 5 June 1913 ↗City to take Sutro estate land for sewer buildings
Ordinance · 11 March 1912 ↗City Attorney to take land near Forty-eighth Avenue for a sewer
Resolution · 19 February 1912 ↗Sidewalks on Geary Street set at thirty-seven and a half feet
Ordinance · 16 November 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