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Spencer St

10 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Spencer St, between 1909 and 1925, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, laundries, paving and grading.

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What keeps coming up

  • Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Laundries2Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Clinics and hospitals2Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
  • Hotels and rooming houses2Hotels and rooming houses, concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods.
  • PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1920s1
    Braas & Kuhn Co. wins the school furniture contract · 1925
  2. 1910s7
    James H. Pinkerton paid $4,281.00 for plumbing at Polytechnic High School · 1914
  3. 1900s2
    Mutual Engineering allowed an oil tank at 8 Spencer Street · 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