Geary St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Geary St, between 1907 and 1948, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit39Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Railroads and spur tracks20Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers17Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Clinics and hospitals17Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Paving and grading14Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Schools13School sites bought, built and repaired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1940s1J. J. Phillips defends the $98,000 Geary Street carbarn purchase · 1948
- 1930s3$3,500 more for alterations to the Geary Street car barn · 1939
- 1920s47$123,997.32 set aside to build the Geary Street School · 1929
- 1910s66R. C. Storrie paid $73,223.18 for Twin Peaks tunnel work · 1916
- 1900s3Geary Street railway idle after refusing the men's $3.00 daily wage · 1907
The most notable decisions
R. C. Storrie paid $73,223.18 for Twin Peaks tunnel work
Resolution · 17 January 1916 ↗$123,997.32 set aside to build the Geary Street School
Resolution · 20 May 1929 ↗$480,675 set aside to build Roosevelt Junior High School at Arguello Boulevard
Resolution · 15 April 1929 ↗MacDonald & Kahn paid $36,091.99 for the South Side High School
Resolution · 21 November 1927 ↗Carnahan & Mulford paid $24,014.00 for building the Columbus School
Resolution · 17 August 1914 ↗Michael Reilly sells school land on Blake Street for $6,250
Resolution · 5 March 1928 ↗Patrick J. Murray sells Cook Street school land for $10,000
Resolution · 14 February 1928 ↗$7,000 paid to Anglo American Land Company for school land
Resolution · 1 August 1927 ↗Annie W. McMullen paid $3,200 for school land on Thirty-first Avenue
Resolution · 27 September 1926 ↗Eureka Benevolent Society paid $15,000 for school land on Arguello Boulevard
Resolution · 26 July 1926 ↗
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