Hooper St
21 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Hooper St, between 1909 and 2007, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, oil tanks and boilers, blasting permits.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Oil tanks and boilers3Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s2California College of the Arts seeks cables under Hooper Street · 2007
- 1940s1Southern Pacific allowed a rail fence across Hooper Street · 1946
- 1920s2Lumber and sewer material contracts awarded to Beronio Lumber and others · 1921
- 1910s12C. F. Braun allowed a cupola furnace on Shipley Street · 1918
- 1900s4Western Felt and Refining allowed an engine on Hooper Street · 1909
The most notable decisions
Lumber and sewer material contracts awarded to Beronio Lumber and others
Resolution · 6 September 1921 ↗Southern Pacific allowed a rail fence across Hooper Street
Resolution · 1 April 1946 ↗Southern Pacific to let fire alarm wires cross Sixth Street
Resolution · 24 April 1922 ↗C. F. Braun allowed a cupola furnace on Shipley Street
Resolution · 9 July 1918 ↗San Francisco Mills allowed a 3,000 gallon oil tank on Hooper
Ordinance · 27 September 1915 ↗C. Solomon Jr. allowed an antimony furnace at 175 Hooper Street
Resolution · 1 June 1915 ↗Center and Coryell allowed a spur track along Wisconsin Street
Ordinance · 22 April 1912 ↗P. A. Buell allowed a planing mill on Hooper Street
Resolution · 25 April 1910 ↗Buell Company allowed two 80 horsepower boilers on Hooper Street
Resolution · 13 April 1910 ↗G. A. Buell allowed two mill boilers on Hooper Street
Resolution · 28 March 1910 ↗
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