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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.

Open Adam St on the map, street by street

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.

  1. 1940s2
    City to take land to widen Adam and Eve Streets · 1940
  2. 1930s12
    Land at Holladay and Potrero avenues condemned for Bay Shore Boulevard · 1931
  3. 1920s6
    Block at Potrero and San Bruno Avenues to allow light industry · 1922
  4. 1910s5
    Charles Herold to convey a strip of land at Army Street · 1918

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