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Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

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.

Top Cast

  • Hank Wilson

    Hank Wilson

    Mr Ambassador

  • Peter Wilson

    Peter Wilson

    reporter

  • Pam Moore

    Pam Moore

    Narrator/reporter

  • Peter Wilson

    Peter Wilson

    Narrator/reporter

  • Val Robb

    Val Robb

    RN Nurse

  • Carolyn Jones

    Carolyn Jones

    RN Nurse

  • Bob Lawless

    Bob Lawless

    RN Nurse

  • Victoria Sanabria

    Victoria Sanabria

    Social worker

  • Tom Calvanese

    Tom Calvanese

    Hotel asssitant

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.

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