The back cover featured a nearby bar that was then called the Hard Rock Cafe. The LAFD said the immediate viability of the structure is in the hands of the L.A. Department of Building and Safety.

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.

“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.