Willy, Job, Secretary and the narrator spend a night at "a little tourist camp about two miles away" from the Memphis airport (241). Tourist camps in scenic destinations like Yosemite and Yellowstone date back to the 19th century, but in the 1920s, the tourist camp industry was given a huge boost by the growing number of automobiles on the nation's roads.
Willy, Job, Secretary and the narrator of "Uncle Willy" spend a night at "a little tourist camp about two miles away" from the Memphis airport (241). Tourist camps in scenic destinations like Yosemite and Yellowstone date back to the 19th century, but in the 1920s, the tourist camp industry was given a huge boost by the growing number of automobiles on the nation's roads.
The Mississippi State Insane Asylum - referred to in the story as "the asylum at Jackson" (228) - was located in that city, the state capital, until 1935. Two major characters from Faulkner's other fictions end up there: Darl Bundren, mentioned by the narrator of this story, and Benjy Compson.
While "Texas" in Faulkner's fictions is most frequently associated with the frontier west and identified as a place for people who have gotten in trouble to escape to, in this story it is the new home of Willy's sister, who has married "an oil millionaire" (225). The decades between 1901, when petroleum was discovered at a place called Spindletop, and the Great Depression of the 1930s are known as Texas' "gusher age," when oil production boomed the state economy.
"California!" - that's the destination Willy has in mind for the trip he fantasizes about taking by car and plane (242). He repeats the word twice, both times with an exclamation point, but does not mention a specific place inside the state.
After their attempts to wean Willy from morphine fail, a group of townspeople "take him to Memphis" (231). Later, after Willy has moved on to alcohol as his drug of choice, they take him to "the Keeley" (238), but since that rehabilitation clinic focused on alcoholism, not drug addiction, it's likely that this first rehab in Memphis happens elsewhere, though all the text says is that he is there to be "cured" (232). "Hospital" is our admittedly speculative attempt to give this location a label.
In this case we have to speculate not just about the location of this location, but also about how to label it. It is the place in "Uncle Willy" where, after the failure of their attempts to wean Willy from morphine fail, a group of townspeople take him. All the text says in that they "take him to Memphis" (231).
"Manuel Street," where Willy finds the woman he marries, is a fictional address Faulkner uses in this story and in two other texts - Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun - to refer to Memphis' notorious prostitution district.
