Adam St
25 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Adam St, between 1915 and 1948, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about land bought and sold, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Land bought and sold5Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
Block at Potrero and San Bruno Avenues to allow light industry
Ordinance · 9 January 1922 ↗City to take land to widen Adam and Eve Streets
Resolution · 5 February 1940 ↗Land at Holladay and Potrero avenues condemned for Bay Shore Boulevard
Resolution · 13 October 1931 ↗Land to be taken to widen Adam Street and Eve Street
Resolution · 28 May 1928 ↗Charles Herold to convey a strip of land at Army Street
Resolution · 10 June 1918 ↗Army Street widened to 74 feet between San Bruno and Holladay
Resolution · 25 July 1921 ↗Jurisdiction acquired over a portion of Adam Street
Resolution · 6 July 1937 ↗Sidewalks done away with on Clarence Place
Ordinance · 24 May 1937 ↗Part of Adam Street ordered closed
Resolution · 6 July 1937 ↗Part of Adam Street to be closed and abandoned
Resolution · 6 July 1937 ↗
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