Founded in 1893__Proprietor: Ed Callahan
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Ms. Marcia Garcia

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This 29-year-old San Jose native works as a production assistant in local television. She hopes to be an anchor person someday.

Ms. Mi Ling Ling

12

Ms. Ling is a well-known Mission District community organizer.

Mr. Brendan Murphy

13

A refugee from war-torn Belfast, Mr. Murphy is currently playright in residence at Intersection for the Arts.

Mr. James Bogan

14

This former California congressperson was recently thrown out of office for his work during the Clinton Impeachment campaign.

Ms. Elizabeth Stewart

15

This local San Francisco debutante apparently checked into the hotel by mistake.

Mr. T.J. English

16

This true crime author of "The Westies" is in town to investigate gang rivalries between two ex-Saigon Vietnamese clans.

Ms. Dorothy Never

17

Novelist-philosopher Anna Granite's former private secretary, Ms. Never currently earns her living as night-shift proofreader on nearby Montgomery Street.

Ms. Nora Smudge

18

This promising young journalist and private investigator has started her own newsletter, the Smudge Report, from her room at the Dark Hotel.

Ms. Tangelina O Farell

19

This popular local stripper and showgirl is currently working three-a-days at Marty Lopez's Hey Hey Club.

Mr. Melvin Raino

21

Mr. Raino continues to recover from his 14 years as a child prostitute thanks to the help he is receiving from three local 12-Step programs.

Mr. Mike Brownfeather

22

This Fairbanks, Alaska, boat captain and full-blood Apache Indian is rumored to be the Mexico White connection from San Francisco to the greater North.

Ms. Keri Seda

23

The niece of the late Dori Seda, Keri is also a cartoonist, and publishes her own cartoon 'zine, Snookie, from her room at the Dark Hotel.

Mr. Don Hearst

24

An itinerant vacuum cleaner salesman, Mr. Hearst claims to be the disowned black-sheep heir to a famous newspaper family.

Mr. M. Bumbleman

25

This Pulitzer Prize-winning New York artist keeps a room at the hotel for irregular visits to San Francisco, where he feels free to put on his prettiest dress and lose himself in the crowds on Castro Street.

Ms. Annabelle Snoot

26

Ms. Snoot is currently staying at the hotel researching a book on sex dancers in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.

Mr. Ben Witherspoon

27

Mr. Witherspoon is the lead sax player, and the organizer of the local avant-garde jazz ensemble, the Egyptian Pharaohs.

Mr. Tony Pasolini

28

The resident hotel archivist, local book clerk Tony Pasolini is a huge fan of the late William Burroughs.

Mr. Gerhard Herzhelde

29

Known to his fellow staff members as "Buttons," Mr. Herzhelde grew up in Germany during the last days of the Weimar Republic. On weekends "Buttons" has been known to work as elevator "boy" at the Hotel.

Mr. Martin Jackson

31

This retired local bluesman once anchored the T-Bone Walker Trio.

Ms. Harriet Flynn

32

For more than 40 years, Ms. Flynn worked as a stripper and lap dancer in North Beach.

Mr. Ben Poleski

33

A gay advocate and part-time UPS truck driver, Mr. Poleski bears a remarkable resemblance to Prince Charles of Great Britain.

Ms. Leslie Jones

34

A computer programmer by day, Ms. Jones spends her weekends playing fiddle in a number of local Irish and Scottish traditional music bands.

Mr. Pequod Snead

35

Author Pequod Snead rents a room at the Dark Hotel to house his budding independent film business. His secretary stops by each day to answer the phones and pick up the mail.

Mr. Martin Donaghue

36

This retired New York City newsman once shared a desk with the legendary Damon Runyon.

Mr. William Sternelli

37

The hotel's oldest resident was a victim of the government's secret drug research program in the early 1960s.

Mr. Patrick Connolly

38

"Father Pat" was a popular Saint Ignatius prelate before being convicted, in 1984, of 17 charges of child molestation.

Ms. Mabel Maney

39

Lesbian crime novelist Maney continues to write her deadpan satires featuring a legendary teenage gal crime sleuth from her room here.