Dewey Blvd
44 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Dewey Blvd, between 1906 and 1995, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, schools, clinics and hospitals.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Clinics and hospitals4Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Fire stations2Engine houses and fire stations.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s2$46,420 emergency sewer replacement at the Taraval and Dewey rotary · 1995
- 1980s1Sign asked for at Portola Drive pointing to West Portal shops · 1980
- 1950s1Laguna Honda Boulevard to be widened to Clarendon Avenue · 1953
- 1930s6Two new wards ordered at the Laguna Honda Home · 1930
- 1920s8Meyer Bros. paid $78,250 for school land near Taraval Street · 1925
- 1910s25Storrie & Co. paid $2,823.87 for Twin Peaks Tunnel work · 1917
- 1900s1Ocean Avenue to be closed from the Great Highway to Corbett Avenue · 1906
The most notable decisions
Storrie & Co. paid $2,823.87 for Twin Peaks Tunnel work
Resolution · 24 September 1917 ↗Meyer Bros. paid $78,250 for school land near Taraval Street
Resolution · 25 May 1925 ↗Engine House No. 37 to be built at Vermont and Twenty-fifth
Resolution · 25 June 1917 ↗Two new wards ordered at the Laguna Honda Home
Ordinance · 15 July 1930 ↗$1,899 set aside for two portable buildings at Cleveland School
Resolution · 5 November 1917 ↗Francesco Torrano gives land for the Douglass Street stairway
Resolution · 25 July 1932 ↗Shops allowed on Dewey Boulevard at the Plaza
Ordinance · 3 January 1927 ↗Three parcels declared open public streets on the approved map
Resolution · passed · 2 May 1932 ↗Dewey Boulevard to be opened as a public street
Ordinance · 24 November 1919 ↗Dewey Boulevard opened as a public street
Ordinance · 24 November 1919 ↗
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