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Excelsior Ave

46 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Excelsior Ave, between 1907 and 1981, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about schools, street name changes, land bought and sold.

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What keeps coming up

  • Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Street name changes4When a street was given a different name.
  • Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s4
    Parking meters set on Kearny Street between Bay and Francisco · 1980
  2. 1950s8
    City takes over new roadways on Delta, Detroit and Prague Streets · 1958
  3. 1940s1
    Flores family offers $836.60 to clear an Athens Street lien · 1941
  4. 1930s1
    Lyell Street extension declared an open public street · 1931
  5. 1920s7
    Peter T. Shewbridge paid for school land on Paris Street · 1925
  6. 1910s17
    Louise Laville paid $3,500 for land for the Monroe School · 1919
  7. 1900s8
    Piazza and De Stefano families give land to extend Manchester Street · 1907

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