Lawrence Ave
24 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lawrence Ave, between 1910 and 1940, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.
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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.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
Mayor to buy the Ocean Shore Railroad's right of way
Ordinance · 16 February 1925 ↗Richard Plath's land bought for $50 to widen Alemany Boulevard
Resolution · 22 August 1927 ↗Land along San Jose Avenue set aside for the street
Ordinance · 4 April 1921 ↗Land for widening San Jose Avenue bought from Christ De Julio
Resolution · 20 December 1920 ↗Russell and Jenkins give land for the San Jose Avenue widening
Resolution · 9 August 1920 ↗Vincenzo and Maria Alluisa give land to widen San Jose Avenue
Resolution · 2 August 1920 ↗Street levels to change on Lawrence Avenue near the railroad tracks
Ordinance · 11 June 1928 ↗F. W. Hyland to be paid $524 for Lawrence Avenue work
Resolution · 4 May 1925 ↗Street levels reset on San Jose, Farragut and Lawrence avenues
Ordinance · 27 June 1921 ↗Street levels changed on San Jose Avenue and Lawrence Avenue
Ordinance · 12 December 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