The historic Morrison Hotel, which featured on The Doors' 1970 album, was heavily damaged by a fire in downtown Los Angeles.
A view of the re-created Morrison Hotel facade during the Day of the Doors pop up event at The Original Morrison Hotel at 1246 South Hope Street on January 4, 2020 in Los Angeles . The Doors ' 1970 album of the same name, was significantly damaged by a fire that erupted in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday (Dec. 26).
The four-story building, which has been vacant more than a decade, burned for nearly two hours before more than 100 firefighters brought the flames under control, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.The Morrison Hotel was featured on the cover of The Doors’ fifth album. Celebrated music photographer Henry Diltz made the image in 1969 and said years later that it took a little trickery to pull it off.A hotel clerk told the band they weren’t allowed to take photos inside, but when the clerk stepped away, the group ran into the lobby and Diltz quickly got the photo looking through the window, with legendary frontman Jim Morrison in the middle. “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 toldPress on Friday. “I think the beautiful front window with “Morrison Hotel” in red letters was the best part of it! So did The Doors!” The album was viewed as a comeback to their roots for The Doors, coming on the heels of Morrison’s on-stage arrest at a Miami concert that saw him convicted of indecent exposure and profanity.Los Angeles firefighters who first arrived at the blaze on Thursday found heavy flames on the building’s top floor. Several people who were in the building escaped without injuries, including three people rescued by firefighters from the third floor, according to the department. The building’s roof collapsed, leaving its structural integrity in doubt, the department said.
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