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Race, 192
and discrimination, 50 –51, 102 , 137 , 157 , 214 , 247 , 267 , 277 , 136
See also Blacks; Chinatown; Chinese Americans; Discrimination; Japanese Americans
Radical politicians, 155
Raines Law hotels, 120
Raubeson, Andy, 289
Real estate industry. See Property industry
Real Property Survey of 1939, San Francisco, 112 , 260 –262
Red Light Abatement Act, California, 239
Red-light zones. See Prostitution; Vice districts
Redecorating cycles, 183
Reformers
contradictions and exceptions in positions, 203 , 230 , 262 –263
values and strategies, 202 –208, 238 , 251
Rehabilitation of hotels (SROs), recent, 294 , 298 –299, 301
Religious discrimination, 50 –51, 64 , 102
Relocation of hotel tenants, 283 –283
Remittance men and women, 108
Remodeling cycles, 183
Reno Hotel, San Francisco, 170
Renting as discredited form of tenure, 222 –224
Research methods used, x –xi
Residence clubs, 82 –83, 306 , 44, 83
Residential motels, 291 –292
Resort hotels, 29 , 48 –49, 81 –82, 49, 50 , 82
Restaurants. See Dining rooms; Food provision
Restrictive covenants, 247
Retired people. See Elderly hotel residents
Riis, Jacob, 131 , 204 , 132, 136
Ritz Tower, New York, 3
Rolkin, Edward
owner biography, 170 –171, 190 , 195 –196, 198 , 172
hotels owned, 171, 190 (see also Central Hotel; Denver House; Reno Hotel)
in lodging houses, 141 –143, 147 , 229
in palace and midpriced hotels, 38 , 40 , 43 , 69 –70, 175
in rooming houses, 93 –94, 100 , 91, 98 , 100 , 106
other dwelling types, 82 –83, 124
room as symbol of self, 128 –129
See also Murphy beds; Suites of rooms
Room rental rates. See Costs
Room registries, 240
Roomers in private houses, 6 , 268
Rooming house districts, 95 , 113 –115, 199 . See also Chelsea; Near North Side; South End; Tenderloin; Western Addition
Rooming houses, building types, 92 –103
development and specialization, 97 , 99 , 188 , 99, 189 , 244 , 246 , 278
development related to codes and zoning, 245 , 250 , 246
downtown rooming house type, 95 , 97 –98, 194 , 96, 194 (see also Delta Hotel; Hotel Harris; Sierra House)
former-house type, 92 –94, 191 –192, 197 , 6 , 91, 93
large-building type, historic, 95 –96, 128 , 9, 13 , 95 , 99 , 170 , 180 , 261 (see also Central Pacific Hotel; Hotel Frederick; National Hotel; Oliver Hotel)
new and rebuilt types, 295 –297, 300 , 296 –297
related dwelling types, 6 , 103
Rooming houses, general issues
advantages and costs for residents, 95 –96, 115 , 306
definitions, 23 , 92 , 94 , 99
and economic cycles, 182 , 265 , 267
and freeways and parking, 269 –270
managers and owners, 172 –173, 179 –180
material-culture pathologies (reform view), 213 , 224 , 268 , 12, 234 , 276
and public housing policies, 256 , 274 , 280
social pathologies (reform view), 120 , 211 , 217 , 220 –222, 231 , 259
Rooming houses, residents
age and household profiles, 106 –107, 12, 13 , 139
concern for material propriety, 128
individual examples:
Jane Wagner, 4 ;
Woodrow Wilson, 105
marginal social groups, 107 –108, 120
occupation and ethnicity, 95 , 105 , 177 , 265 , 308 –309, 104