United States: Michigan: Lower Peninsula: Wayne County: Detroit: West Side: Mexicantown: Hotel Yorba

Dave
Adelaide

This shouldn't be in fictional places...

...because the Hotel Yorba actually exists! The song was written there.

edit: I just added the “real” Hotel Yorba to the Detroit section of 43places: http://www.43places.com/places/view/252536

Comments:

alykat
Arlington

In a cursory Google search, I found photos, but not an address. Is the real Hotel Yorba someplace in California?

Dave
Adelaide

I found http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=2942

which says:
“The Hotel Yorba is a real hotel. It is located in a run-down section of Detroit on Lafayette Boulevard, near a bus station. Jack White grew up in Detroit and heard rumors about the hotel when he was growing up.”

danimatian
New York City

It’s just Southwest of the Bridge to Canada near the Detroit River.