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Montgomery

19 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Montgomery, between 1906 and 1912, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about parks and playgrounds, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.

What keeps coming up

  • Parks and playgrounds6Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • 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.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • War and the military2The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1910s3
    Public Works told to put proper name signs on street corners · 1912
  2. 1900s16
    Children's playground created between Greenwich, Powell, Lombard and Mason streets · 1908

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