A downtown Los Angeles building made famous as the setting of an album cover photo for the legendary rock band the Doors was heavily damaged after fire broke out Thursday morning. The building that ...

The Morrison Hotel became popular after ... The way that album cover happened," said Henry Diltz, who took that iconic photo. "They ran in and just got right behind the window, perfect order ...

“On this day, December 17th, 1969, we were out taking photos for the Morrison Hotel album cover,” Diltz wrote on Facebook. “We were at a transient hotel in Downtown LA on Hope Street.

A former hotel in downtown L.A. whose name graced a 1970 Doors album — and where the band shot the record’s cover art — was badly burned in a fire.

The band and its frontman Jim Morrison had been told they couldn't take a photo inside the hotel ... And that became the cover of the 'Morrison Hotel' album." Before becoming vacant, the building ...

A downtown Los Angeles building made famous as the setting of an album cover photo for the legendary rock band the Doors was heavily damaged after fire broke out Thursday morning. The building ...

he former hotel was ... of the Morrison Hotel dates back to 1914, but its most iconic moment was in 1970, when Jim Morrison posed for the iconic cover of his self-titled album, released in ...

The "Morrison Hotel" album cover featured a photo of the band members, including hell-raising frontman Morrison, with the hand-painted name of the hotel framing them. The release was no hitmaker ...

(Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) The building featured on the cover of The Doors’ 1970 album ‘Morrison Hotel’ has been badly damaged by a fire. Per Variety, the blaze broke out on ...