The Collection Treatment
October, 2000
San Francisco State UniversityThe Aurora Hotel was a scab-colored building in a bad part of town. Its two front doors, the first made of latticed iron and the second of thick, heavy wood, were always closed and usually locked. The only way it could be identified as a hotel was by the hand-painted sign suspended from one of the first-floor windows. Full Bath, the sign declared. Color TV. Daily. Weekly And Monthly Rates. Safe! The last word, safe, and its accompanying exclamation point had actuall...
