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Thornton Ave

26 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Thornton Ave, between 1910 and 1999, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about keeping horses and cows, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.

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What keeps coming up

  • Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • The rules for this street changed2Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s3
    New all-way stop at Thornton, Reddy and Topeka · 1999
  2. 1970s1
    Two pedestrian underpasses to close at Thornton Avenue and Burrows Street · 1977
  3. 1950s5
    Thornton Avenue sidewalks cut from ten feet to five · 1954
  4. 1940s5
    City takes over the roadways of Ledyard and Mercury Streets · 1941
  5. 1930s2
    Permit on Mission Street near Main Street lasts six months · 1931
  6. 1920s4
    Thornton Avenue to be graded, sewered and paved to Vesta Street · 1929
  7. 1910s6
    San Bruno Avenue to be paved between Felton and Silliman streets · 1914

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