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Minnesota St

63 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Minnesota St, between 1906 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good, parking.

Open Minnesota St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks14Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Streets closed for good3Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • War and the military3The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
  • Liquor licences3Bars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.
  • 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.

  1. 2010s3
    DIGWines gets a wine licence at 1005 Minnesota Street · 2011
  2. 2000s2
    Stop signs added on Bacon, Minnesota and Sacramento Streets · 2001
  3. 1990s1
    Deadlines for filing labour agreements with the Clerk sent to committee · 1997
  4. 1980s2
    Parking changes made on Baker, Lawton, Minnesota and Newhall Streets · 1987
  5. 1970s14
    City takes over the Minnesota Street roadway south of Twenty-second Street · 1976
  6. 1960s2
    Hermco allowed a fence in Minnesota Street south of Twenty-Fifth · 1962
  7. 1940s3
    Federal hold on Tennessee and Minnesota Streets housing land to end · 1948
  8. 1930s7
    $2,500 set aside to rebuild Minnesota Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth · 1938
  9. 1920s5
    Santa Fe Railway allowed a spur track across Minnesota Street · 1929
  10. 1910s8
    Concrete sewers built in Kentucky Street and Mariposa Street to Indiana · 1910
  11. 1900s16
    Sidewalk widths set on Nineteenth Street between Indiana and Minnesota Streets · 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