Telegraph Hill Blvd
71 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Telegraph Hill Blvd, between 1917 and 2005, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streets closed for a day, parking, streetcars and transit.
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What keeps coming up
- Streets closed for a day11Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
- Parking8Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s3Transit pilot urged for Telegraph Hill Boulevard this summer · 2005
- 1990s12Telegraph Hill Boulevard traffic rules finally passed · 1998
- 1980s9Hassler Hospital sale money proposed for a San Francisco General laboratory · 1981
- 1970s5Map approved for the opening of Telegraph Hill Boulevard · 1973
- 1960s1Streets closed for a Columbus Day parade, art shows and fairs. · 1967
- 1920s38Payment approved for land the city needs for school purposes · 1926
- 1910s3$1,899 set aside for two portable buildings at Cleveland School · 1917
The most notable decisions
Payment approved for land the city needs for school purposes
Resolution · passed · 20 September 1926 ↗City pays M. H. Dignan $1,400 for Pioneer Park land
Resolution · 8 January 1923 ↗$1,725 paid to Rosa Costa for Telegraph Hill park land
Resolution · 20 November 1922 ↗Grant Smith & Co. paid $31,100.58 for the Pulgas Tunnel
Resolution · 23 July 1923 ↗$1,899 set aside for two portable buildings at Cleveland School
Resolution · 5 November 1917 ↗Umberto Cara and Laura Hoeber sell land for Telegraph Hill Boulevard
Resolution · 26 March 1923 ↗City buys Margaret Dougherty's land for widening Roosevelt Way, $1,000
Resolution · 26 March 1923 ↗M. H. Dignan sells Greenwich Street land for Telegraph Hill Boulevard
Resolution · 26 December 1922 ↗City accepts land offered for the Telegraph Hill boulevard
Resolution · 6 November 1922 ↗Snead & Co. paid $7,194.30 for library book and newspaper stacks
Resolution · 17 September 1923 ↗
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