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Prospect Ave

15 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Prospect Ave, between 1909 and 1951, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, land bought and sold.

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What keeps coming up

  • 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.
  • Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1950s1
    Lien lifted at 147 Prospect Avenue over aid to the Cocas · 1951
  2. 1930s1
    $250 to advertise the Redmen's Convention in San Francisco · 1930
  3. 1920s3
    Sidewalks to be built on Prospect Avenue and Downey Street · 1929
  4. 1910s8
    Phil Lobree sells the city land for Fair Avenue for $650 · 1913
  5. 1900s2
    Street levels to be changed on Virginia, Prospect and Winfield avenues · 1909

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