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Randolph St

79 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Randolph St, between 1915 and 1998, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, blasting permits, railroads and spur tracks.

Open Randolph St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Streetcars and transit30Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Wires put underground3Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
  • Oil tanks and boilers2Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s3
    Utility wires to go underground near Broad and Randolph Streets · 1998
  2. 1980s1
    Four-way stop set at Randolph and Victoria Streets · 1982
  3. 1960s1
    Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph · 1969
  4. 1950s9
    Property at Victoria and Randolph Streets, with no action recorded · 1959
  5. 1940s11
    Arch Street sidewalk order near Randolph Street to be repealed · 1944
  6. 1930s3
    City to take over Randolph Street between Chester and Worcester Avenues · 1939
  7. 1920s48
    O. Monson awarded $51,370 to build Engine House No. 29 · 1924
  8. 1910s3
    San Bruno Avenue to be repaved and Arch Street sewered · 1919

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