International Hotel

Nine years of holding on, and it ended in six hours in the middle of the night.

Collection: San Francisco: More Stories · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

International Hotel site on Kearny Street, about 1979 · Nancy Wong, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

A sheriff went to his own jail for five days rather than carry out an eviction on this corner. Then he came back and led it himself. The old International Hotel stood on this block, where the new I-Hotel now houses low-income seniors. In 1968 about a hundred and fifty elderly Filipino and Chinese tenants lived in the old one, and a real estate firm served them notices. The plan was a parking garage.

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