“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.

The former Morrison Hotel made famous by the Doors' album art erupted in flames in Los Angeles and required more than 100 firefighters to contain the blaze.

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 ...

A fire in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday destroyed a historic building that had been immortalized on the cover of the 1970 album "Morrison Hotel," by rock band The Doors.. More than 100 ...

“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.

The album cover shows the group - singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger - posing under the "Morrison Hotel" sign on the building's window.

A fire in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday destroyed a historic building that had been immortalized on the cover of the 1970 album "Morrison Hotel," by rock band The Doors.. More than 100 ...

"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 downtown Los Angeles building once made famous on the cover of a Doors album caught fire Thursday (Dec. 26) and needed over 100 firefighters to contain the blaze.. The site was famously captured ...

The building that was once home to a transient hotel known as the Morrison Hotel was the setting for cover photo for the band’s … Downtown L.A. ‘Morrison Hotel’ Building Made Famous By ...