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Evening Wednesday, 31 July: Can See /\ Above /\, The 2nd Story ZMM Narrator’s “Porch”, In This Rear View of Hurzler Hotel, 401 E. First St. At Intersection With Pennsylvania Avenue, Laurel MT.
Robert Pirsig Mentions The Second Story “Porch” in ZMM => At Start Chapter 11
“I wake up wondering if we’re near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air. We’re in a beautiful old wooden room of a hotel. The sun is shining on the dark wood through the window shade, but even with the shade drawn I can sense that we’re near mountains. There’s mountain air in this room. It’s cool and moist and almost fragrant. ….
I go to a common washroom at the other end of a long corridor of the same dark wood, floorboards creaking all the way. In the washroom the hot water is steaming and perking in the pipes, too hot at first for shaving, but fine after I mix it with cold water.
Through the window beyond the mirror I see there is a porch out in back, and when done go out and stand on it. It’s at a level with the tops of the trees surrounding the hotel which seem to respond to this morning air the same way I do. The branches and leaves move with each light breeze as if it were expected, were what had been waited for all this time. ”
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In the evening light, Henry Gurr’s ZMM Route Research takes him (the third time), to the Laurel MT location of the ZMM Narrator’s Hotel, as seen in above . Sept 2015 Google Street View (GSV). This is where Pirsig, Chris, and the Sutherlands stopped at on their original 1968 motorcycle trip.
….Yes the Hurzler was still there (Aug 2019), but indeed a Dismal Scene: The property was overgrown with weeds & trees sagging out of control. I saw that the building had been long abandoned, and in badly deteriorating condition! It was so very sad to see, Henry made no attempt to take photos.
….This Hotel Hurzler in Laurel MT, located one block away Major Railroad Switch Yard, was originally designed as an overnight dormitory, for Railroad Train Crews. This is why
the building, although sturdy, has Spartan Features. These features were just fine for the buildings original purpose, but too Spartan for the modern motel guest.
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Photo File = GoogStVuSept2015 RearPorch&HurzlerHotel}401FirstStLaurelMT.jp …. Originally Posted May 2019, Revised 26 Sept 2020.
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