The Morrison Hotel, the famous backdrop for The Doors’ 1970 album named after it, was destroyed by a huge fire on Dec. 26 while being occupied by dozens of homeless squatters. Almost 100 firefighters worked for at least two hours from 11 a.m.
The Morrison Hotel, the famous backdrop for The Doors ’ 1970 album named after it, was destroyed by a huge fire Thursday while being occupied by dozens of homeless squatters.
The building was previously used as low-income housing until it was vacated in 2008, and had not had any official residents for almost 10 years. A previous plan to turn it into a luxury hotel was nixed when a developer defaulted on a loan, the LA Times said.The Morrison Hotel is famous backdrop for The Doors’ 1970 album named for it and lead singer Jim Morrison.“I personally have never seen a big fire like that,” nearby business owner Juan Jose Gutierrez told Fox11.
Morrison would release one final album with the band, “L.A. Woman,” before he was found dead in a Paris bathtub on July 3, 1971.
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