Jim Morrison: The Abandoned Alta Cienega Motel. Are They Tearing This Piece of Rock History Down?
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- Answers to the abandoned Motel where Jim Morrison lived while writing and recording "LA WOMAN" & "MORRISON HOTEL" with THE DOORS. With Rock Essentials With Tim.
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The caretaker is doing a bang up job 😂
He's an up and comer by the name of Norman Bates.
My heart sank when this place was reported closed, Me and my wife stayed here in room 32 back in the 90's, back then it was pretty much the way Jim had lived there 20+ years earlier. There was no graffiti, a simple bed, tv and a dresser and that was it! and the people who ran the place had no clue who Jim Morrison was nor did they care. I hope someone or some organization can buy and renovate this place. Thanks Tim even though this is really sad to see, I do have some video of this place back in 95, you have inspired me to put it up on TH-cam so people can see this place in an earlier version, look for it soon. Peace Brother!
That would be great to see. I had assumed it had the graffiti from way back.
@@RockessentialTim I'm sure people attempted graffiti back then but, I think the people who ran the place promptly painted over any of it, I think they were from Taiwan and had no interest in catering to Doors fans. We did "liberate" the original bathroom light switch cover after finding a razor blade to cut through 60 years of paint. We also bought a replacement cover at the drug store across the street. We signed our names on the back and installed the new one. Out of all the graffiti that's there, the one behind the bathroom light switch was the first to escape the beige paint-over.
@@ranchotexino4929 OMG, that is awesome! I am lobbying The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to buy the room but they aren't giving me the time of day. It would make for the best exhibit in their tired museum.
@@RockessentialTim the rrhof is currently getting a major expansion so they can do more, but they have a half dozen exhibit shows a year, including hip hop and pioneers, so thats pretty good.
Let me know when its out!
i love this style of videos that you do allways awesome more to come i hope
Making them seems to keep me out of trouble so more to come.
Excellent stuff as always. Hey that CVS on the corner used to be Flipper’s Roller Disco …Prince played there in 1981 on his “Dirty Mind” Tour
Would have loved to seen it. I can remember before that when it was a bowling alley!
I like the writing on the ceiling that reads, "Listen To Bill Hicks".
No, this is not The Bates Motel but it is just as creepy and I did get my hands dirty digging up some dirt on the situation. Enjoy it!
Second video of yours for me, also saw the Zevon one which was great...
I was wondering if you were familiar with the work Dave McGowan on Laurel Canyon?
@@joshmaxwell7968 Yes, I have read his book.
@@RockessentialTim any thoughts?
@@joshmaxwell7968 I will give you my thoughts if you give me yours first...
@@RockessentialTim I never read it, but I have listened to his interviews and lectures on the subject.
I thought it was interesting and maybe had some merit... but I'm 42 and from the Midwest, so I'm definitely the outside looking in.
Great update thank you Tim!
Hi Tim.. love the videos. You keep the excitement alive for old and new music history buffs. The only thing better than the music is seeing where and how the history was made. You give us all a peek behind the L.A. rock n roll curtain. Keep ‘em coming!
Thanks, man!
My goodness I hope someone buys it and keeps 32 exactly the way it is. Would be a shame to lose another rock and roll treasure especially from the BEST rock and roll poet there ever was. Thanks Tim always always enjoy your productions
Awesome!! Thanks!!
yer welcome!
The same motel room where Jim wrote Cars Hiss Past My Window as well as the night Jim was MIA for a gig where Robby and Ray found him curled up under the bed in the fetal position chanting, "10,000 mics, 10,000 mics, 10,000 mics" because he took 10,000 micrograms of LSD and was clinging to the edge of reality.
One of my favorite tunes.
Morrison never spent one minute in "reality". Between him and Keith Moon enough pills were injested between 1967 and 1970 to kill 10,000 normal people.
thanks for sharing this Tim , much appreciated , Cheers ✌️🎸✌️
Your channel is an 'Art Installation' that I really dig! Great work!🤘
Right on, thanks. Love it!
Very Cool Brother
Oh my goodness! I paid the $20 a few years ago during a Doors walking tour I did ( Ray Manzaruk has/had an online guide) and being in the room is really mind blowing! I sure hope they don’t demolish room 32 ~ your idea of it being moved to a hall of fame is brillliant! Thank you for doing this!👏🏻💫💕
I hope someone at the R&R HOF gets the picture. It could really bring some good publicity to their museum.
@@RockessentialTim For $5M anybody can have it.
I remember that video and how amazing it was!!!! They have to do something with that room. I could stay there for hours reading everything in the room. Thanks for the update.💖
It is possibly the best living R&R art installation in America and its sitting there rotting. I don't believe its ever been painted over.
Great video! Such a trip to see inside! I was able to check out the Alta Cienega Motel before the Pandemic. Took some great photos outside the door of Jim's old room. Sad to see it go. So much rich L.A. music history. I also recently noticed in January that the Morrison Hotel downtown has been boarded up but I am told that the famous window with the "Morrison Hotel" written on it will be preserved at the same location.
Interesting that you mentioned the Morrison Hotel cuz I was actually down there today filming! It is totally boarded up, someone has swiped the Morrison Hotel sign and if someone is preserving it, they''re doing a damn lousy job!
@@RockessentialTim Damn. What a drag. It was still there about a year or so ago. But someone said it would be resorted to resemble the original sign.
@@ednieto05 Its a really interesting neighborhood. Its just a few blocks from Crypto.com arena, as a matter of fact the Lakers were playing a matinee game. Some of it has gentrified and some of it like the Morrison has just decayed into decrepidness. I don't have high hopes for it returning.
That is amazing! A National treasure that room. I would pay a pretty penny just to hear some Doors playing in room 32.
Wow it is like a Jim Morrison shrine,thanks for sharing room 32 !
Exactly!
Love these videos! Thank you.
Room 32 looks a lot like the backstages upper floor at the Whisky A Gogo during the punk rock era of the late 70s.
There was a Spirit album cover taken on those steps in front of the motel.
Fantastic thanks Tim lets hope they keep it alive...
This is awesome, love the vids, super cool.
Right on, thanks!
Thank you!
Right on, you're welcome!
cool update and previously unseen video!
Your lovely wife should have used her lipstick to write on the walls .
i was lucky to see the Doors at an outdoor concert in around 67. Morrison was electrifying but the Youngbloods stole the show .
As they were getting ready to end their set with "Get together " a stage hand came up and whispered something in Jessie's ear. he got a huge smile on his face and started the song .
Near the end he began to cry which had all of us sobbing to the intense emotion he was creating . he then told us that his wife had given birth to one of their children just prior to starting the song .
the emotional atmosphere was overwhelming . i will never forget it.
Wow, what an amazing story. I saw Jessie do some youtube vids during covid and he was still great!
Hey Tim!,great video!!! The dog also looked friendly 😉
She was a good girl just doing her job....I think.
@Hiking4Life I'll be in LA this weekend for the 3 night Phish run at the Hollywood Bowl. I plan on going up to Blue Jay Way. Your hike up there a few years back was great. I'm gonna make some memories up there myself. Hopefully it's a little foggy😉
No kidding? Yeah, its worth taking a look up there, it really feels like your on top of the world. I am planning on going up to San Francisco and doing a vid on Jerry in the coming weeks.
@Hiking4Life ohhh can't wait!!! Love the Haight Ashbury district
Hi Tim! You are amazing! LOL....that dog was definitely doing his job! This was awesome....when you walked in the room, I loved your reaction! Priceless! That was crazy, they should never get rid of that. Jim Morrison fans would definitely love to visit this place. It was a little spooky too! Thank you for sharing, it was good seeing you! I pray all is well with you and your beautiful wife! GOD bless!
Always love hearing from you, Char! Hope you had an awesome Easter and all the best to you and yours. PS: Loved the Dolly Parton stuff. Believe it or not, she is doing a rock album and will most probably end up in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame!
Definitely some hip history!
Oh My God ! Oh My God ! Oh My God !
Nice. Right after I saw you. Great work buddy.
Thanks, I usually don't get em out so fast but it kinda told its own story.
Jim Morrison was a musical genius. He sure did a lot in his short life!
Another great installment...
If you watch the doors extended scenes, Oliver Stone used room #24 with Val Kilmer whilst filming the doors in 1990, not because #32 was a temple shrine that couldn’t be used or filmed or anything, but because 24 was the room where Pam would come find him when they’d fight.Thats the first place Ray & Robbie would look for him in the 3 years he lived in WeHo
Thanks!🏨
Tim, Room 32 is fucking incredible. I have never seen anything like it. It does belong in the R&R Hall of Fame. That was one mean hound dog !. Thank you for sharing this and yes, your wife is lovely. I really enjoyed this video!
Thanks, my man. My guess is behind the rough exterior she is a sweetheart. Now am I talking about the Mastiff or my wife? (The answer is both)(:
@@RockessentialTim 😅
Cars Hiss Past My Window was written about living in the canyon. He and Pam would sit on the balcony and take it all in.
Wild Stuff Tim ! Great piece of Rock and Roll History ! Best to you and Nada ! Peace, Rudy.
Right on and right back at ya, Rudy. Peace to you my friend.
Too cool. My first boss in tech invented the trimpot, he and his wife. The bought the garage and built it into their plant in Riverside. Get them to give the walls etc and rebuild it somewhere!
Okay, you def got my attention. Exactly what is a trimpot?
@@RockessentialTim Sorry. It is an adjustable potentiometer. In music they are in guitar pedals etc. If you look at the components in a circuit board they are usually blue squares with a screw in the top that you use to adjust the trimmer inside the potentiometer. Pots are, of course, found in elec guitars, same general thing. Bourns pots are still some of the best
when i was 18 i used to pass by the Alta Cienega and i took a picture to the door and it had an old black and white pic that said something about jim showing up from 9 till late and i was about to enter but something did not allowed me ..i was dreaming about that day to come i quit my job cause of time and stuff and i did it for Jim cause i was soo into the doors back then ...i saved money cause the owner was charging 100 bucks and i was just a kid revising history i was crazy in love about their philosophy, and music most of all...and when the moment finally came i just could not do it..i felt like i was disrespecting Jimbos privacy so i turn back and i left...this happened 10 years ago..and everytime i remember that moment..i regret it every single time, now this is happening and it breaks my heart to know that this place might not be with us anymore..hope the owner decides to reopen this wonderfull place.
Me too!
Thats one bad dog. It ain't no happy child? Sid.
Father blessed us all with free will….and this is what they choose?
Room 32----seriously, if you hadn't shown us the inside of that room, I just wouldn't have believed it!! Incredible! Thanks!
Being in that room is still one of the highlights of my TH-cam career. I am so lucky to have had my camera with me!
@@RockessentialTim If you hadn't had your camera you'd have been advised to just not even try and tell the story---NO ONE would have believed you---good job Tim!
Right on, thanks!
On of the Doors band member said that Jim was not living in room 32 but in another room of the hotel
Ok, but where did you hear that. I'd love to see it.
I stayed there. So cool
Bucket list.
Have you read Weird Scenes In The Laurel Canyon by Dave McGowan, very interesting that Jim Morrisons dad was on the Gulf of Tonkin. Great vids thank you
Yes, read it a few years back.
Hey dude, big fan of your channel. I was just looking through the doors app, ha I wonder what Jim would make of it. Anyway, it has a list of locations on it which is pretty good information for people like I’m guessing your good self. You been to a fair few already but worth a look. I wish I could come to LA one day and visit them all. BigLove from London Uk, peace!
Thanks for love!
Stayed at the Alta Cienega on my first trip to L.A. Thank God there was a CVS right across the street.... ☣️🧫🦠😂
I've always wished I could buy it, strip it down, and turn it into a cool retro hotel!
Ive still got my keychain from Room 32, it was $10. It's too "busy" for me to stay in there 😵💫, and it looked like most folks got it for one night and left. They used to give the room a fresh coat of paint every few years and finally gave up.
They should call it Morrison Hotel , refurb it and make a biz out of it
That's actually a really great idea.
“Morrison Hotel” has been an art gallery showing a bunch of rock star’s prints (and certain celebs’ prints like David Lynch). There might be a conflicting trademark issue with both franchises sharing the same name. ☹️
Thank you!! I temember that there was a recording studio across the street.... Hollywood really sucks now ......😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I stayed in #32 back in 2008 even tho I knew it wasn’t Jim’s room, but only to tag the shit out of it ..Most of that dizzying art work on the ceiling is minesssss 🐍🐍🐍🦎
Save32!
Hello from Maine. I just discovered you and that’s a good thing on my part, thank you.
I performed in a band in the late 80’s - 90’s with the name Room 32. Some of the funnest times in my life, some of the saddest times in my life.
That band life can be a bitch. 😂
You got that right. The band life sounds a whole lot more exciting than it really is me thinks. BTW: Great band name!
Thanks once more for showing us all the weird , quirky pop culture spots around L.A..... love so much "off the beaten path" stuff you show us .....cheers man
Right back at ya. Thanks!
Thanks for the update! My daughter was planning to go see it this week and was very saddened to hear it's been closed for this long. Doesn't sound to promising for the future since they are bulldozing everything around there. SAD.
Well, you can still stand outside and look in the gates while blasting Doors music!
@@RockessentialTim ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!
The hotel has been an afterthought for decades drifting in and out of function. My later childhood was a block away so would pass by on foot regularly. Sometimes it was functioning and other times it was a regular source of crime.
I remember your first visit ................
It was a great night. We had a nightcap at Barney's Beanery and its the last time I was there too!
I stayed in this place 2018 with my band. It was the smelliest, dirtiest experience of my life. The carpet was sticky under my shoes and we slept on top of the covers in our clothes lol. Totally glad we did though 😂
It puts the D in dump!
1:05. Yep that's Jimbo😁
OMG, you are right!
Such nostalgia there. Just like the house he lived in in Laurel Canyon. I wanted to mention to you Tim that I am also a musician. I have been playing the drums for over 50 years, starting as a child in the 60s and onward. I also play keys (self-taught on all instruments) and a little bass. That's why I always enjoy your music history videos. Thanks bro.
50 years? Wow! I always say, you don't choose to play music, it chooses you. Keep rocking my friend!
@@RockessentialTim Yes it does. I shall my friend.
Another great video Tim, thanks, I’m a Brit who used to live and work in SoCal, most of my work was in let’s say’s the wider 90210 area. One day I went to a big job at 10452 Bellagio, I was fortunate to go back several times and appreciate that this was where Brian Wilson had lived and had “taken to his bed”. In England there would be a blue plaque placed outside to recognise this and the house would be preserved, just like they’ve done in Liverpool to the Beatles former homes.
Without saying too much, there was going to be some renovations carried out and I’d be going back to 10452 once it was done. Imagine my horror when eventually I went back and the Brian Wilson house had been demolished, and replaced with a white box. It’s bordering on being criminal.
Is it any wonder I thought, that I often had local people talking to me about the historic places in England and complaining that the USA doesn’t have any history…..
Jim’s grave is nothing out of the ordinary but I suspect that it will remain the same forever and is that such a bad thing?
Keep up your great work, it’s all about the music!
Ken
Yeah, unfortunately that kind of stuff seems to happen a lot here in the States. I think its because the oldest things around us are Strip Malls and its unwritten law that they get torn down and rebuilt every 40 years or so. The Alta Cienega was built in 1948 and I can assure you that besides Barney's Beanery, its the oldest building in that neighborhood.
Ken, don't be so sure Brian Wilson would have a blue plaque had he been born in Britain. I'm almost certain Ray and Dave Davies' childhood home doesn't have one, and they certainly deserve it.
Very cool Tim! Room #32 is definitely a piece of Rock&Roll history that should be preserved. Maybe the thought of how exactly to go about doing so is too enormous and intimidating for the owners, so the property is hanging in limbo so to speak. Anyhow, thanks for your video, and shining a light on rock history.☮️💜
I'll let you know how it progresses...
@@RockessentialTim Great! Look forward to any updates you may have!✌️
Nice video Tim!!!! I can't believe it that Alta Cienega Hotel was abandoned!!!!! It's a historical place of rock and roll history... Jim Morrison stayed here, it's not fair!!!! I hope someone reopened it and kept it as it is....
If they had any brains (and they don't), The Rock Hall of Fame would ship that room piece by piece to their museum in Cleveland.
You're right Tim!!! Not only the Alta Cienega but everything else similar to rock history of LA but not only this town.....
I hope the place survives. They could charge an admission fee by appointment or during business hours and generate some income. Probably. That poor poochie deserves a biscuit. She's taking care of business, for sure. 🍄🍄🍄
She was a good dog just doing her job.
🙋♂ Tim - To Living and Die in L.A.
As you said l wouldn't want to stay the night there !
It is so loud in that room that you can't hear yourself think, let alone sleep.
The older I get the less there is to go see, keeps happening with a lot of things. The "Beach Boys" Fosters Freeze recently closed as well. Thanks for the update.
That is a scary looking dog.
I totally hear you. Our very favorite Foster Freeze closed in Carpinteria a year of so ago. That town just ain't the same without it.
I was thinking that & I'm 18! I'll have to make my own life memories...
@@luigiconder6113 Don't, worry, they WILL come no matter what. The real trick is recognizing them when they first appear.
@@RockessentialTim It certainly seems so...
I would like to know if Jim wrote anything in the first room, or that shown was all fan writings. Does the film crew know?
It is all fan writing. Over the years its been painted over a couple times and it all starts up again.
@@RockessentialTim Thanks for the reply. It would be great if it could be copied and installed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a historical site and art piece dedicated to Jim. I would certainly pay to see it!
@@nanny287 I wish for the same. From some of the comments I've gotten it sounds like the current owner of the motel (which has been sitting fallow for 4 years now) wanted some insane million dollar amount for the room. I don't know if its true but I think the HOF should pony up a couple hundred thousand and make a real offer. Believe me, it would become their best installment.
@@RockessentialTim I completely agree! RRHOF has the money, but I would contribute to a fundraiser nonetheless. That said, there should be a hard-core negotiator in place to ensure a reasonable price for a sale. The owner is really exploiting this when it should be shared with the pubic if they truly care about music history and not simply cash. Sadly, too often it is just the latter. Thanks again, and perhaps you could keep us interested parties updated with occasional videos/notices if things progress. Thank you again for the information from an avid, long-time Doors’ fan.
My only update is I drove by it a couple days ago and it was still empty except for the dog and the caretaker living in the tent....
I wish Jim would of been buried back home. Also a autopsy performed. We will never know the truth.
Man I really hope this place survives. But as like the line from the song says Nobody Get's Out Alive. I wonder how much the offer was.?
It was prolly too low whatever it was. The land alone there has to be worth at least 6 million.
I struggle to watch any video about the havoc that was allowed to be done to this "monk's cell" (as Jim called it), which should have been preserved in its original state and sealed, like a time capsule. The visit (for a fee) would have been possible only by looking inside through a glass mounted in place of the entrance door. In Europe this is how we preserve valuable things (whole buildings!) and pass them on to the next generations. But not America. America has a short memory. In America people raze to the ground to rebuild, and while this offers so many new opportunities, unfortunately it makes it very difficult to look at the past with awareness. Fans believe Room 32 is cool in its current state and don't realize that it's not a celebration of Jim but of themselves. However, I still hope that some millionaires will buy it to restore it to its original state and FINALLY turn it into a museum. I definitely would if I had the money. Thank you for your video: I was there a few months ago but I was so depressed and moved that I didn't take any videos or photos. I waved to the dog, as Jim would have. I turned my back and walked away with the almost certainty of saying goodbye forever in my heart.
What an interesting and though provoking post! I totally agree that many fans do it as a celebration of Jim when really it is about themselves. But---in doing so the years and years of writing on those walls has turned the room into, in my mind, something more than where Jim used to sleep. There is no denying when you are in that room that you are standing amid some kind of experience--like an immersive, grotesque art exhibit but a powerful and provocative experience nonetheless. I kinda think Morrison might have liked that.
@@RockessentialTim
Unfortunately, everything that puts a filter between us and him, distances the perception we have of him and of the reality and times in which he lived. For someone like me who has spent more than thirty years studying his life and work even at an academic level, this is an interesting cultural event but an unforgivable mess in terms of historical preservation. Then looms all over the danger of the entire Motel suffering the usual fate of all things "old" L.A.: bulldozers! Sa sad 😞
@@hunny945 I think the good news is, even if they raze the motel, room 32 is worth a considerable amount. I'm sure the owner of the property is probably aware of that--it might even be the reason they didn't sell it to the City of West Hollywood a few months ago. Of course nothing is certain (besides death and taxes) but my bet is the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame brainchild will come to their ever-so-dim senses and it will end up there.
1:00 Here comes Jim and he is pissed off! lol
LOL!!!
Morrison’s room was directly above the driveway entrance?
Yes!
nice doggo lol. there are a few places around nyc like that morrison room. or were i should say. one was the carlton arms, where all the rooms were grafittied like that, but although still a budget hotel i think they yuppied it up since the 80s when i stayed there. another place was the mars bar in the ev, with head to foot graffiti every inch, now also long gone.
In the 70's Saturday Night Live used to mention that they're guest were lodged at The Carlisle. I guess it was an inside joke!
Woops, I meant the Carlton.
On one hand the dog is wagging his tail, on the other hand he wants to issue death. Seems like a good dog though, doing his job. hope this place is saved. For a second there I thought this was the motel on the cover of Spirit's The Family That Plays Together album. Awesome album btw....
She was pretty much the Junkyard Dog poster girl.
He's wagging his tail. Rather you than me, though. What a hovel! Interesting video.
I think she was ready to do her job. Her personality fit the surroundings!
Stayed there in the late 70s with a band I was touring with. Nomally we stayed at the Tropicana. They were surprised we wanted to rent for the entire night as they usually rented by the hour! In the room one of the guys discovered a trove of Porno magazines between the matresses. At that point most of the band decided to sleep in the bus.
I lived at the Trop for a short time in 78 and it was kinda cool, especially Dukes Restaurant there. The Alta Cienega has always been a dump, its only redeeming factor is room 32!
@@RockessentialTim That's about the same time we were there. Got a few wild Trop stories. My favorite though is I was producng an album and was staying there. Our friends knew the manager at the Troubador and he had a suite there for after show partying. I left the singer in our room and went to the party. He showed up an hour later laughing his head off. Appartently he got confused as to where the party was and knocked on a random door and woke up a family of Japanese tourists. He then told them that it was an American tradition for singers to go door to door entertaining people. They invited him in and he proceeded to play a few songs, said thank you and left a most bewildered family. Wonder how they told that one back home.
HA!!!
Like a dog without a bone.....
I would totally stay there,,but i'm in recovery,,knowing me i would get a bottle and jam out too some doors😂
Well Diet Dr Pepper can work just fine when your listening to Crawling King Snake :) As far as staying there, I'd last about 15 minutes. It was disgustingly dirty not to mention ridiculously loud. But other than that I will admit it had a vibe.....
@@RockessentialTim wow,,😦😆
From HWY, it seems he would go out on the far south side as an overlook. It looks like they have a door there now.
Love your vids. If they decide to tear it down, one thing is certain - I will do whatever I can to obtain the door for room #32
I'll have to fight you for it!
@@RockessentialTim Seven paces in the Alta Cienega parking lot!
@@alexcarl3050 Its on!
Front door alone is for sale at $250K.
Let's hope Tim that she will be saved,these places should be heritage listed...nice pooch😂
Unfortunately, in the US we apparently don't think of the Blues as "Heritage" even though it was invented here. Funny, as in bad funny.
I am the canine king.....I'll bark at ANYTHING
OMG!!😆
That graffiti is a bloody shame, that place is just f#cked up....... No respect for Him at all, even his grave ......he deserves a huge landmark ! Anyhow great video thanks for sharing. Hi from the Netherlands 🙏
Man, I need to get my ass out to L.A. before they tear down or convert all the cool historical pop culture/true crime structures you guys have out there!!
It's all gone. All painted over now. 😪😪😪
Twenty minutes? That's a quicky! Ha, ha!
I don't see it as R&R history ...I stayed in that room for 4 or 5 days over 40 years ago when it was just a regular dumpy motel room...it just had a couple of lines of grafitti on the ceiling directly above the bed....all of what's there now is just scribbling by kids most of whom weren't even born ten or twenty years after he died. Actually Morrison stayed in a few of the rooms there. I guess Rm 32 is kind've obsessed rock fan art but it's not rock history....the room has been changed completely, so there's less to see....or get a sense of there now than what meets the eye
Nice doggie! 😊😮😊
This a little off topic but I could never understand what Janis Joplin was doing hanging out in a sleazy motel.
what a deeply ironic (Ironic because he would have hated it) and perverse tribute to Jim Morrison, no wonder he came to deeply resent the fanatical hero worship that his fans bestowed on him. He even once said "who do they think Jim Morrison is anyway" .
I was there after it closed and from the looks of it, they whitewashed room 32. :(
Looks like a dump. I don't listen to The Doors. There are plenty of dive bars and restrooms here in Portland Oregon that look exactly like this place.
1980s - I am guessing, it’s been many days and nights since then - I was invited to a party there after a gig at the Troubadour. That’s was before the fancy pants parking structures were built and It was odd to me because there were parking spaces available on the property. I remember turning left at the top of the stairs and the room “26” burned in my mind forever. I knocked and a BEAUTIFUL girl answered and within a second she asked if I had any cigarettes. I got a glimpse of the room and the activities and a voice in my head said get the “F” out of here NOW. “I have some Marlboro’ in the truck but if you would like something else there’s a liquor store around the corner, what would you like?” She replied, “Virginia Slims green box.” I booked out of there, was in the truck AND on the road pronto! ❤No one… 20s or 90s, should see the things that I saw there that night. Some type of hellish ritual. Yup… no Ritz going-on there. Thanks Tim! for your tour! HA! Do they have a pen? HaHa!
That is an awesome story! I've had similar experiences myself, but not there. Even back in the day, The Alta Cienega was pretty much too low rent for even us poor rockers.
I dont know if you are familure with a man named Chris Fleming he did a vlog here he is a ghost hunter so to speak
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I definitely don't dig the graffiti. It didn't used to be that way, and you could stay in the room much like it was when Jim used it.
Most horrifying was to see the Bible in the drawer. As Jim clearly stated/shouted, YOU CANNOT PATITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER.
Friggin Gideons.
What can I say? For me its the graffiti that makes it special.
I am dismayed. I spent an evening there with someone utterly crazy in 2015, and just tonight i thought i would see what's up, and to know it's been closed down since Covid, well i guess that can't be surprising itself, but it's disappointing. I don't want to say the stay there was charming and delightful, you dont go on an adventure like this for charming and delightful. We were there for hedonism and indulgence and that's what we ....well, staying there longer than five minutes, the room in all its brilliant "decor" has a weird effect on you. Definitely hypersexual. At nighttime the general ambience of the entire motel, its being set into a rocky hillside on one side, the tunnel entrance underneath Room 32, and the backside of the store on Santa Monica Blvd, with the angled backside of the billboard perched above it, the visual effect of that was a quaint little enclosed courtyard feel to it, but everything looks more attractive at nighttime, when we arrived. Great job covering this, I hope the place reopens, liked, subscribed.
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A pen? A PEN???Take photos of premises, wall by wall, square inch by square inch. That's damn near ART. And in the future, one day, the place will be bought by some individual who could care less about Jim Morrison and who will renovate. All that cool graffiti will be lost forever.
I'm either a romantic or an idiot (kinda the same thing) but I'm holding out that they'll sell it to the RRHOF.
They used to paint over it every few years and finally gave up.
What it really needs is for someone to write HELTER SKELTER in real blood.
Yeah, I know it's sick, but I don't care. I'm sure Jimbo would find it funny.
My guess is some of that stuff on the walls IS real blood. And yes, I think Jim would find all this ado about the Alta Cienega Motel hilarioius...