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NEW ON THE JOB
The Head of a Filipino Heritage Group Balances Past and Present
The barbershop was on the bottom floor of the International Hotel, a big tenement on Kearny Street in San Francisco. Ron Muriera went with his grandfather, a Filipino immigrant. The old man would talk with his compadres. The boy would sit beneath the clippers and listen.
The hotel was the hub of Manilatown,...