The previous Morrison Lodge, made well-known by The Doorways and their 1970 album of the identical title, 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 practically two hours earlier than greater than 100 firefighters introduced the flames below management, in keeping with the Los Angeles Fireplace Division.
The Morrison Lodge was featured on the duvet of The Doorways’ fifth album. Celebrated music photographer Henry Diltz made the picture in 1969 and mentioned years later that it took just a little trickery to tug it off.
FILE – Autos drive previous the Morrison Lodge on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, in Los Angeles.
AP Picture/Ric Francis, File
A resort clerk informed the band they weren’t allowed to take photographs inside, however when the clerk stepped away, the group bumped into the foyer and Diltz shortly acquired the photograph wanting via the window, with legendary frontman Jim Morrison within the center.
“It was an awesome previous picket constructing with many small rooms upstairs the place transients and drinkers might sleep it off on a cot for $2.50 an evening!” Diltz informed The Related Press on Friday. “I believe the gorgeous entrance window with “Morrison Lodge” in pink letters was the perfect a part of it! So did The Doorways!”
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The album was considered as a comeback to their roots for The Doorways, 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 Doorways would launch one remaining album, L.A. Girl, earlier than he was discovered useless 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.
A number of individuals who had been within the constructing escaped with out accidents, together with three folks rescued by firefighters from the third ground, in keeping with the division. The constructing’s roof collapsed, leaving its structural integrity unsure, the division mentioned.
The constructing lately had been used as a coaching web site for firefighters.
A employee walks previous the doorway to the stays of the previous Morrison Lodge after a hearth on the 1200 block of South Hope Road in Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024.
AP Picture/Richard Vogel
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