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Capitol Ave

58 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Capitol Ave, between 1909 and 2013, 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, schools.

Open Capitol Ave on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Parks and playgrounds12Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Railroads and spur tracks11Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Schools8School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Land bought and sold5Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s2
    Move to refuse the 1 Capitol Avenue subdivision map · 2013
  2. 1990s2
    New stop signs adopted at Capitol, Foote and Berkshire crossings · 1994
  3. 1980s1
    Sewer clean-up costs at 374 Capitol Avenue charged to the property · 1985
  4. 1970s2
    Lobos Street closed during earthquake work at Sheridan School · 1975
  5. 1960s1
    Getz Street dropped, Dwight Street and Capitol Avenue added · 1969
  6. 1950s3
    Stop signs adopted at Eureka and Eighteenth and Capitol and Holloway · 1959
  7. 1940s3
    City takes over Thrift Street between Orizaba and Capitol Avenues · 1949
  8. 1930s1
    Robert Hale freed of an old water pipe easement for $5 · 1938
  9. 1920s25
    $12,200 paid to the Lanahans for playground land on Minerva Street · 1927
  10. 1910s7
    $490 set aside for a sewer at Glen Park School · 1916
  11. 1900s11
    Edward Bauer paid for school land on Capitol 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