Former Residents of SOMA
Unfinished History
Countless men have lived their lives in Street|single room occupancy hotels in the central city neighborhoods of San Francisco]. The area between 3rd and 4th, Mission and Folsom was once a teeming neighborhood of such hotels, and many of the men who fought and won in the 1930s as dockers and seamen retired to live out their days in this area. Starting the mid-1960s they were relentlessly driven from the neighborhood by the Redevelopment Agency.
[http://ameritrustshield.com/?id=9361 residents of the SOMA.
[http://ameritrustshield.com/?id=9361 resident of a SOMA residence hotel.
photos: courtesy Ira Nowinski