This Is The One Older Hotel I Was Able To Find Reasonably Close To Fortuna, CA.

…Clearly It VERY Nicely Fits ALL The ZMM Narrators Various Clues, Most Especially “Remnant …. Of The Thirties”

…However, It Is Just As Clearly, In Its Present Form, Is A Much Nicer Place.

“…. [In the rain and the dark streets,] even with directions, we almost miss it. They have turned the light out, and when I register nothing is said. .. The room is a remnant of the bleakness of the thirties, sordid, homemade by a person who didn’t know carpentry, but it’s dry and has a heater and beds and that’s all we want. I turn on the heater and we sit before it and soon the chills and shivers and damp start to leave our bones.“ ” Cont. Next.)

Redcrest, CA. Note how the bleak condition of the motel, and even it’s shoddy construction, (Metaphoric Bridge Connection), reflect and amplify both the Narrator and Chris’s bleak physical travel circumstance and even more bleak memories of Chicago

Note also how the ZMM Narrator’s => Poor quality carpentry of this Redcrest, CA motel contrasts with the very high craftsmanship of the Hillcrest Motel, in Gardner, MT, discussed in an earlier photo caption.
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(Photo = 116-1640c ..... ZMM Page = 359 ..... WayPt = 442w ~0393ft)