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Bright St

42 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bright St, between 1913 and 1970, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit.

Open Bright St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s2
    $175,000 voted for a recreation center for the handicapped · 1970
  2. 1950s6
    Bright Street improved with about $5,300 of city aid · 1955
  3. 1940s3
    Sidewalks ordered on Bright Street south of Randolph Street · 1940
  4. 1930s5
    Land bought in Alameda County for the Hetch Hetchy pipe line · 1931
  5. 1920s18
    Charles Hancock sells Randolph Street land for the streetcar extension, $854.45 · 1924
  6. 1910s8
    City orders Bright Street extended north to Holloway Avenue · 1913

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