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Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel (1994)

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel (1994)

Documentary
Release Date: 1994, November 15
Directors: Ken Swartz
Countries: United States of America
Production: Chronicle Pictures, Chronicle Pictures
Cast: Carolyn Jones, Peter Wilson, Hank Wilson, Pam Moore, Val Robb, Bob Lawless, Victoria Sanabria, Tom Calvanese

Overview:

1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson, a San Francisco LGBT activist who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing. 134 run-down and exhausted rooms populated by homeless men and women, sometimes even children. All of them in urgent need of care, compassion and humanity. Nobly provided by voluntarily working professional health care and social workers staff, various benefactors, volunteers, neighbors, and community contributions.

Keywords:

san francisco, california humanity homeless tenderloin district