Steve Blow:
A 24-hour stay for me, a last resort for them

For years I passed the 24 Hour Club on Ross Avenue and wondered about the place. So the other day I spent 24 hours there.

It’s not exactly a weekend resort. More of a “last resort.”

The 24 Hour Club is a scruffy facility for people making a last-ditch fight against drugs and alcohol.

It’s often described as “the last house on the block,” the place drunks and junkies turn when they have no other choice.

The club is affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous but is an independent, self-sustaining operation. And as the name suggests, it’s open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a source of hope that never closes.

I walked in on a Friday afternoon and was hit at the door by the potent scent of cigarettes and Pine-Sol. You know right away this is a place in constant battle against decay