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Hotels
Ambassador Hotel – The Tenderloin – San Francisco, CA
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The Ambassador Hotel is a six-story, 134 room single room occupancy hotel at 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco,California. The hotel was designed by Earl B. Scott & K. McDonald as the Ferris Harriman Hotel and Theater, and completed in 1911. An addition was completed in 1922, and in 1923 the hotel was renamed Hotel Ambassador. In 1929 the theater was converted to a garage.
The building can be seen in the movie Metro, featuring Eddie Murphy. Science fiction and true crime author Miriam Allen deFord was a noted resident from 1936 until her death in 1975. 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. – Wikipedia
Hotel Jermyn – Cleland-Simpson Company [1878-1906] – Scranton, PA
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The Cleland Simpson building is the former site of the Globe Department Store which closed in 1994.
The Dryden East Hotel – East 39th Street – NYC
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Other postings on the Internet:
- Manhattan Ghost Signs Digital Collection – Otto Luna & Dana Rubin – Walter Grutchfield
Matinees – Wilkes-Barre, PA
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Previously posted on November 2, 2008 – Hotel Sterling – Matinees. There seems to have been no further work done on this building since then.
