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Charles St

22 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Charles St, between 1912 and 1970, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, oil tanks and boilers, paving and grading.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Oil tanks and boilers3Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s1
    Stopping banned on Jessie Street between Annie and Third Streets · 1970
  2. 1930s2
    Map approved for widening Chenery Street opposite Natick and Charles streets · 1931
  3. 1920s12
    Waldman land bought for $7,600 for the Bernal Cut · 1927
  4. 1910s7
    Charles and Gladys Streets to be curbed and paved · 1916

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