Amazon
11 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Amazon, between 1909 and 1920, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers.
What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
Another $300,000 set aside for Hetch Hetchy water work
Resolution · 24 March 1919 ↗Ads on the outside of street cars would need a permit
Ordinance · 17 March 1919 ↗Williams & Belser paid $5,547.02 for the Amazon Street sewer
Resolution · 2 August 1909 ↗Williams & Belser paid $3,861.56 for the Amazon Street sewer
Resolution · 21 June 1909 ↗Crocker Estate Company allowed a switch track on Mission Street
Resolution · 8 March 1909 ↗John and Pauline Tonningsen offer Amazon Reservoir land for $97,000
Resolution · 15 March 1920 ↗Crocker Estate Company asks for switch tracks on Mission Street
Resolution · 11 February 1909 ↗
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