Cook St
43 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Cook St, between 1910 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, land bought and sold, taxis and garages.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools12School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Land bought and sold7Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Taxis and garages3Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- War and the military3The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
- Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s6Landmark status finally passed for the pine at 46A Cook Street · 2016
- 1940s1$29,540 paid to Mayfair Heights Corporation for more school land · 1946
- 1920s24Veterans' Welfare Board sells Cook Street land for a school, $8,000 · 1928
- 1910s12City to take over Dolores Street between Twenty-first and Twenty-second · 1910
The most notable decisions
$29,540 paid to Mayfair Heights Corporation for more school land
Resolution · 20 May 1946 ↗Veterans' Welfare Board sells Cook Street land for a school, $8,000
Resolution · 27 August 1928 ↗Mary E. Porter paid $2,200 for school land on Cook Street
Resolution · 16 April 1928 ↗Patrick J. Murray sells Cook Street school land for $10,000
Resolution · 14 February 1928 ↗B. Fogalia sells Cook Street school land for $4,000
Resolution · 14 February 1928 ↗Frank Hess sells Cook Street land needed for a school
Resolution · 14 February 1928 ↗Mary E. Porter sells Cook Street school land for $2,200
Resolution · 6 February 1928 ↗Mrs. C. Bacelli offers Cook Street land for a school
Resolution · 6 February 1928 ↗School land purchase corrected to name Ellen Hutton on Cook Street
Resolution · 5 March 1928 ↗City to take over Dolores Street between Twenty-first and Twenty-second
Ordinance · 18 April 1910 ↗
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