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Davidson Ave

23 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Davidson Ave, between 1910 and 1975, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1970s; often about streets closed for good, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.

Open Davidson Ave on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Streets closed for good8Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s9
    Burke, Custer and Davidson Avenues closed for good in India Basin · 1974
  2. 1950s3
    $16,264.98 voted for extra sewer work on Rankin Street · 1959
  3. 1940s6
    Widening of Islais Street and Selby Street made official · 1941
  4. 1920s1
    E. J. Treacy appeals his bill for paving Evans Avenue · 1928
  5. 1910s4
    Land dedicated to the city for Selby Street · 1917

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