Once-Upon-a-Time Rural Section Line Crossroads, and Now Town Center.
"John says there is a motel at the other end of town, but I tell him there’s a better one if you turn right, at a row of cottonwoods a few blocks down. .. We turn at the cottonwoods and travel a few blocks, … "
South View Main Street Oakes, ND. Many years ago the one major Highway through Oakes went E-W at this traffic light. This is why the two existing Oakes motels are either direction at this intersection. As indicated by the above passage, the Motel Pirsig probably used in 1968 was two blocks West of town center. But this motel was torn down about 2001. There is a newer motel, also on the West side, but on the opposite side of the road and somewhat closer to the stop light.
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(Photo = 103-0323 ...... ZMM Page = 027 ...... WayPt = 033`|w|' 1313ft)