The former Morrison Hotel was famously featured on the album cover of the Door's fifth ... Diltz and co. snuck inside to capture the shot. The rest is history. "It was a great old wooden building ...

Two video reports on the fire can be viewed below. The famous album cover was shot by photographer Henry Diltz at the Morrison Hotel on South Hope Street in downtown L.A. The group had reportedly ...

It was a building immortalized as the album art and title for the Doors' fifth album. But on Thursday, the former Morrison Hotel — most recently slated to be used for affordable housing — went ...

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.

Music photographer Henry Diltz, who shot the iconic image of the Los Angeles rock band the Doors at the Morrison Hotel for the band’s 1970 album, recounted in a 2020 Facebook post how he got the ...

The Morrison Hotel, the famous backdrop for The Doors ... Henry Diltz, the photographer who shot the album cover, said he was “very sad” to see the landmark so badly damaged, telling ...

One roll of film shot before we got asked to leave ... "On this day, December 17th, 1969, we were out taking photos for the Morrison Hotel album cover. We were at a transient hotel in Downtown ...

Fire tore through the upper floors of the boarded-up Morrison Hotel Thursday in ... who snapped the surreptitious shot inside the hotel’s lobby that is featured on the cover.

He shot a whole roll of film in about five ... which became the image on the back of the "Morrison Hotel" album. The album — the band's fifth studio album — sold more than 1 million copies ...

Music photographer Henry Diltz, who shot the iconic image of the Los Angeles rock band the Doors at the Morrison Hotel for the band’s 1970 album, recounted in a 2020 Facebook post how he got the ...