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Stanley St

75 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Stanley St, between 1916 and 1955, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about sewers, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.

Open Stanley St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Sewers23Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Streetcars and transit7Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Fire stations5Engine houses and fire stations.
  • PG&E and the utilities5The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
  • Clinics and hospitals4Clinics, health centres and hospitals.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1950s5
    Vacant city land on Bright Street to be conveyed away · 1954
  2. 1940s3
    Sylvain Caro trades land with the city for Alemany Boulevard · 1942
  3. 1930s23
    $5,231.56 to Michael O'Connor for land to extend Van Ness Avenue · 1931
  4. 1920s21
    $67,000 to finish the Duboce Tunnel line into the Sunset · 1927
  5. 1910s23
    Budget list reprinted with street lighting cut to $450,000 · 1918

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