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Armstrong Ave

39 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Armstrong Ave, between 1914 and 2022, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, street lights.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks12Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Street lights2Lighting a street, block by block.
  • Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s1
    Environmental findings offered for a fire training site on Carroll Avenue · 2022
  2. 2000s1
    Permit parking proposed on 19th, 20th, Clayton and Alma Streets · 2000
  3. 1990s5
    Parts of Yosemite and Armstrong Avenues to be closed and sold · 1993
  4. 1960s4
    City takes over the new roadway on Armstrong Avenue · 1960
  5. 1950s1
    Shoup Avenue listed from Egbert Avenue to Armstrong Avenue · 1953
  6. 1940s3
    KROW allowed a board walk along Fitch Street and Armstrong Avenue · 1945
  7. 1930s12
    City takes over Wabash Terrace, Racine Lane and Beeman Lane · 1938
  8. 1920s11
    City land at Third Street and Armstrong Avenue becomes a playground · 1925
  9. 1910s1
    Street levels on Railroad Avenue to be changed · 1914

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