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25 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Central, between 1910 and 1944, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, clinics and hospitals, pg&e and the utilities.

What keeps coming up

  • Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Clinics and hospitals2Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
  • PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1940s4
    Clarence Eaton bids $1,000 for land at Mendell and Innes · 1944
  2. 1920s8
    Catherine Hobro's Redwood City land bought for the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct · 1923
  3. 1910s13
    $35,000 set aside to pave Geary Street to Van Ness Avenue · 1912

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