Bay Shore
82 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bay Shore, between 1915 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about pg&e and the utilities, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.
What keeps coming up
- PG&E and the utilities16The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s2Free swimming for children asked at the Martin Luther King Pool · 1994
- 1980s1Exempting Safeway's Food Barn from item pricing sent to committee · 1980
- 1950s2Airport land to be leased for farming until the airlines build · 1952
- 1940s1870.31 acres bought from the Colemans for the airport, $54,091.50 · 1946
- 1930s12Peninsula Rapid Transit asks to run buses on Bay Shore Highway · 1930
- 1920s46City gives $250,000 for a new highway down the peninsula · 1923
- 1910s1San Bruno Road to be paved through Crocker Estate land · 1915
The most notable decisions
City gives $250,000 for a new highway down the peninsula
Resolution · 16 July 1923 ↗70.31 acres bought from the Colemans for the airport, $54,091.50
Resolution · 29 July 1946 ↗Land by the Bay Shore Highway accepted for the airport
Resolution · 17 June 1946 ↗$8,000 to be paid Bayside Company for 56.2 airport acres
Resolution · 19 April 1943 ↗34 acres bought from Bayside Company for the San Francisco Airport
Resolution · 22 July 1940 ↗Thollander Construction paid $8,154.35 for Engine House No. 47
Resolution · 25 November 1929 ↗Peninsula Rapid Transit asks to run buses on Bay Shore Highway
Resolution · 10 February 1930 ↗Board backs the proposed Bay Shore Highway and Skyline Boulevard
Resolution · proposed · 11 May 1925 ↗State urged to fund Junipero Serra Boulevard and Bay Shore Highway
Resolution · 10 January 1927 ↗Airport bonds explained to the Board by Superintendent Bernard M. Doolin
Resolution · 23 March 1942 ↗
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