The former Morrison Hotel, made well-known by The Doors and their 1970 album of the identical identify, was considerably broken by a hearth that erupted in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday.
The four-story constructing, which has been vacant greater than a decade, burned for almost two hours earlier than greater than 100 firefighters introduced the flames underneath management, in response to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The Morrison Hotel was featured on the quilt of The Doors’ fifth album. Celebrated music photographer Henry Diltz made the picture in 1969 and stated years later that it took just a little trickery to tug it off.
FILE – Vehicles drive previous the Morrison Hotel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, in Los Angeles.
AP Photo/Ric Francis, File
A resort clerk instructed the band they weren’t allowed to take images inside, however when the clerk stepped away, the group bumped into the foyer and Diltz rapidly acquired the photograph wanting via the window, with legendary frontman Jim Morrison within the center.
“It was a great old wooden building with many small rooms upstairs where transients and drinkers could sleep it off on a cot for $2.50 a night!” Diltz instructed The Associated Press on Friday. “I think the beautiful front window with “Morrison Hotel” in crimson letters was one of the best a part of it! So did The Doors!”
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The album was considered as a comeback to their roots for The Doors, approaching the heels of Morrison’s on-stage arrest at a Miami live performance that noticed him convicted of indecent publicity and profanity.
Morrison and The Doors would launch one ultimate album, L.A. Woman, earlier than he was discovered lifeless in a Paris bathtub on July 3, 1971.
Los Angeles firefighters who first arrived on the blaze on Thursday discovered heavy flames on the constructing’s high ground.
Several individuals who have been within the constructing escaped with out accidents, together with three individuals rescued by firefighters from the third ground, in response to the division. The constructing’s roof collapsed, leaving its structural integrity unsure, the division stated.
The constructing lately had been used as a coaching website for firefighters.
A employee walks previous the doorway to the stays of the previous Morrison Hotel after a hearth on the 1200 block of South Hope Street in Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024.
AP Photo/Richard Vogel
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