Morrison Hotel August 21, 2006
I made a quick stop today at the Morrison Hotel to see what (if anything) is happening there since my last visit. The front of the building is now plastered with posters. The only signs of life there were two pigeons over the boarded-up entrance, and a person who certainly looked like a derelict living out of his car ... except that it was a late model Mercedes. We exchanged information from the relative safety of opposite sides of Hope Street. He told me that the interior of the building was now gutted, but he did not know if it would become a parking structure or luxury lofts (like much of the neighborhood undergoing redevelopment.) As I was preparing to leave, two guys pulled up in the parking space behind me. One unloaded a large camera and tripod, and set off to take photos of the building. My curiosity got the better of me and I asked the guy who stayed with the car, what the camera was for. He explained that they were from an outfit called Petro, and they were scouting locations for an ad for the Sony PSP game. He had absolutely no idea about the Doors back-story related to that building, so he got a condensed lesson about its place in Doors history! They were interested in that site because of all the posters as an interesting backdrop. The advertisement or commercial will feature a person walking along playing the portable PSP game.
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sign says: NO TRESPASSING BUILDING CLOSED
front of the building is now pasted with posters and advertisements
fuzzy photo of two pigeons over front entrance, now boarded up
north facing wall of Morrison Hotel
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