Ritch St
20 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ritch St, between 1909 and 1974, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1940s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s2Ritch and Clara Streets closed for good · 1974
- 1940s8Switching hours to be limited on the Bluxome Street spur track · 1945
- 1920s6Howard Realty Company gets a rail spur on Ritch Street · 1924
- 1910s3George Poye refused a laundry on Ritch Street · 1914
- 1900s1Southern Pacific given a spur track on Ritch Street · 1909
The most notable decisions
Ritch and Clara Streets closed for good
Resolution · 23 December 1974 ↗Switching hours to be limited on the Bluxome Street spur track
Ordinance · 22 May 1945 ↗Howard Realty Company allowed a spur track on Ritch Street
Ordinance · 21 May 1945 ↗Southern Pacific allowed spur tracks along Bluxome Street
Ordinance · 21 May 1945 ↗Howard Realty Company gets a rail spur on Ritch Street
Ordinance · 3 March 1924 ↗Howard Realty Company allowed a rail spur on Ritch Street
Ordinance · 18 February 1924 ↗George Poye refused a laundry on Ritch Street
Resolution · 11 May 1914 ↗Won Yick allowed a laundry on Ritch Street
Resolution · 4 August 1913 ↗Southern Pacific given a spur track on Ritch Street
Ordinance · 30 August 1909 ↗Walter H. Sullivan to pay for track work and street lamps
Ordinance · 5 May 1924 ↗
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