Bluxome St
96 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bluxome St, between 1908 and 1985, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, oil tanks and boilers, clinics and hospitals.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks46Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Oil tanks and boilers4Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Clinics and hospitals2Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s2$25,000 settlement accepted over the former Bluxome Street · 1985
- 1950s1
- 1940s9Switching hours to be limited on the Bluxome Street spur track · 1945
- 1930s29Southern Pacific may switch cars on Bluxome Street outside set hours · 1933
- 1920s9Payment approved for land the city needs for school purposes · 1926
- 1910s35Spur track railways must handle connecting railways' freight cars · 1917
- 1900s11John Tuttle paid $6,479 for pulling down old City Hall's wing · 1909
The most notable decisions
Payment approved for land the city needs for school purposes
Resolution · passed · 20 September 1926 ↗Spur track railways must handle connecting railways' freight cars
Ordinance · 7 May 1917 ↗Spur track railways must switch other lines' cars without discrimination
Ordinance · 27 February 1917 ↗John Tuttle paid $6,479 for pulling down old City Hall's wing
Resolution · 26 November 1909 ↗Custer Avenue to be opened near Selby Street
Resolution · 10 March 1919 ↗Seven more fire cisterns ordered at Beale, Bryant and Harrison streets
Ordinance · 21 December 1908 ↗Sidewalks on Bluxome Street fixed at six feet wide
Ordinance · 21 September 1908 ↗A. E. Hennessey to rebuild Bluxome Street for $20,000
Resolution · 21 June 1926 ↗Cotton Bros. and P. H. Mahoney to be paid for cisterns
Resolution · 24 January 1910 ↗Switching hours to be limited on the Bluxome Street spur track
Ordinance · 22 May 1945 ↗
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