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20 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Capitol, between 1909 and 1968, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parks and playgrounds, railroads and spur tracks, land bought and sold.

What keeps coming up

  • Parks and playgrounds8Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • 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. 1960s1
    Report asked on drag racing at Broad and Capitol Streets · 1968
  2. 1920s18
    Johanna Kuhls paid for her Lobos Street playground land · 1923
  3. 1900s1
    Theodore Weiss sells land for $1,500 to open Faxon Avenue · 1909

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