A downtown Los Angeles constructing made well-known because the setting of an album cowl picture for the legendary rock band the Doorways was closely broken after fireplace broke out Thursday morning.

The constructing that was as soon as dwelling to a transient resort generally known as the Morrison Lodge was the setting for canopy picture for the band’s fifth album, titled “Morrison Lodge,” given the nod to the surname of Doorways’ frontman Jim Morrison. The picture, snapped by famed rock photographer Henry Diltz, was taken on the fly in December 1969. The album was launched by Elektra in February 1970. Morrison died at age 27 in July 1971.

“On at the present time, December seventeenth, 1969, we had been out taking images for the Morrison Lodge album cowl,” Diltz wrote on Fb. “We had been at a transient resort in Downtown LA on Hope Road. The Doorways didn’t have permission to take footage, so when the foyer was empty, they ran in shortly and sat behind the window.”

Lately the constructing positioned close to the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Hope Road has been used as a coaching web site for the Los Angeles Hearth Division. It had been scheduled to be transformed into reasonably priced housing.

However the constructing is now red-tagged after a fireplace broke out round 11 a.m. PT on Thursday. It took 17 fireplace firms about an hour and a half to get the flames underneath management, in line with a report by KTLA-TV Los Angeles.

“Morrison Lodge” is marked by a grittier sound that befits a hard-luck resort close to Los Angeles’ Skid Row. The platter opens with the rowdy “Roadhouse Blues” and contains favorites of Doorways fanatics reminiscent of “Peace Frog,” “Ready for the Solar” and “Ship of Fools.”