Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 14.10.2018 11:56


 AH> In the Emerald City, where the wizard lived, everything was
 AH> green... but now we're talking about a different hotel. If I put
 AH> the two ideas together I imagine the narrator is referring to
 AH> someplace like Las Vegas, where there is an air of unreality about
 AH> everything. When I visited this city years ago there was a hotel
 AH> with a neon sign cowboy who tipped his hat & said "Hi,
Pardner!" at
 AH> all hours of the day & night, and there were many "wedding
chapels"
 AH> where folks could get married after a quickie divorce in Reno. But
 AH> I wouldn't expect other folks to draw such conclusions if they live
 AH> eighteen hours away by air.... :-)

Yes, the heroes of the novel were in Los Angeles, in the area where film stars live.

PS: If somebody wants to look at the original text of the book in question
("Molly Moon Stops the World", by Georgia Byng), I have
temporarily put its PDF version here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Fa1Q6yeh1SNMpgI55jRb7YmxDpD7nGai

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2018

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