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Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

Documentary
6.0·1994·0h 51m

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 Han...

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Hank Wilson

Mr Ambassador

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Peter Wilson

reporter

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Pam Moore

Narrator/reporter

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Peter Wilson

Narrator/reporter

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Val Robb

RN Nurse

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Carolyn Jones

RN Nurse

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Bob Lawless

RN Nurse

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Victoria Sanabria

Social worker

DIRECTOR

Ken Swartz

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.