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6th Ave

61 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 6th Ave, between 1906 and 1975, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about oil tanks and boilers, railroads and spur tracks, taxis and garages.

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What keeps coming up

  • Oil tanks and boilers5Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Taxis and garages3Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Laundries2Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
  • Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s1
    Laguna Street made one-way and turns banned on other streets · 1975
  2. 1960s2
    Angle parking added on Kearny Street, dropped on Sixth Avenue · 1964
  3. 1950s2
    City takes over the new roadway on Kirkham Street · 1952
  4. 1920s22
    North half of Geary Street improved near Sixth Avenue · 1929
  5. 1910s16
    $1,500 to buy J. G. Walker land for Hunter's Point Boulevard · 1917
  6. 1900s18
    Offers sought for the Frank McCoppin and Sheridan school sites · 1909

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