Diamond St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Diamond St, between 1907 and 1999, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about dance halls and masquerades, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Dance halls and masquerades8Permits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.
- Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Protests and appeals4A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Commendation proposed for the Glen Park Association's Diamond Street plan · 1999
- 1980s3$3.0M in federal money for Market Street bicycle lanes · 1982
- 1970s8Freeze on new bars and restaurants on 24th Street · 1979
- 1950s3Diamond Street lot bought from Erna E. Grosch for a playground · 1950
- 1940s2Duncan Street to be improved with about $3,500 in city aid · 1948
- 1930s11Meat plants to pay 19 cents per hundred pounds for inspection · 1935
- 1920s38Voters approved $1.4M in bonds for the Bernal Cut · 1927
- 1910s34$80,467.25 to Eaton & Smith for the Twin Peaks tunnel line · 1917
- 1900s20Bonds proposed for fire water, Telegraph Hill and a new hospital · 1907
The most notable decisions
$80,467.25 to Eaton & Smith for the Twin Peaks tunnel line
Resolution · 10 July 1917 ↗Voters approved $1.4M in bonds for the Bernal Cut
Resolution · passed · 8 August 1927 ↗Voters to decide a $1.4M bond for the Bernal Cut
Resolution · 16 May 1927 ↗Voters to decide $1.4M in bonds for the Bernal Cut
Ordinance · 25 April 1927 ↗Diamond Street lot bought from Erna E. Grosch for a playground
Resolution · 10 July 1950 ↗$75,000 given to the Park Commission for ocean beach improvements
Resolution · 10 December 1923 ↗Meat plants to pay 19 cents per hundred pounds for inspection
Ordinance · 13 May 1935 ↗Freeze on new bars and restaurants on 24th Street
Ordinance · 5 February 1979 ↗Bonds proposed for fire water, Telegraph Hill and a new hospital
Resolution · proposed · 31 July 1907 ↗Bar and restaurant permits on 24th Street frozen another year
Ordinance · 1 October 1979 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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