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Bancroft Ave

50 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bancroft Ave, between 1921 and 1971, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, parks and playgrounds.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks13Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Parks and playgrounds8Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Land bought and sold7Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Street lights4Lighting a street, block by block.
  • Schools2School sites bought, built and repaired.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s3
    City takes over the roadway on Bancroft Avenue · 1971
  2. 1950s2
    Southern Pacific allowed a spur track on Bancroft Avenue · 1955
  3. 1940s3
    City takes over Keith Street between Armstrong and Carroll Avenues · 1949
  4. 1930s20
    $14,500 for a new sewer in Ingalls Street · 1931
  5. 1920s22
    City pays Theresa Longwenus $400 for Carroll Avenue playground land · 1923

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