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the palms bar
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A West Hollywood staple for many years, The Palms was a hangout for the Doors and company back when their studio and offices were down the street at the Doors Workshop. Today, the Palms is a popular lesbian bar that has a dance floor and over-priced drinks.
view full location details...the phone booth (former)
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Although today it is an unassuming flower shop called L.A. Premier, in the late 60's and early 70's this location was the home to a strip club called The Phone Booth. Jim Morrison lived across the street at the Alta Cienega Motel from 1968 to 1970 and would frequent the strip club to catch up on his poetry.
The exterior of this location can be seen in the unfinished, unreleased, and thoroughly uninteresting film by Morrison, HWY: An American Pastoral (1969).
view full location details...the alta cienega motel
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From 1968 to 1970, Jim Morrison lived in a number of rooms at The Alta Cienega Motel. At the time, the motel was within walking distance of several strip clubs, bars, and the Doors Workshop, where the band culminated this era with the album L.A. Woman.
Morrison's favorite room was #32, which can still be rented, and where numerous devotees of the Lizard King scrawl graffiti on the walls. The motel repaints the interior every year, but you can't stop stupid people sometimes. The room does afford interesting views of La Cienega and Santa Monica Blvd, and you have to wonder what bad poetry crept into Morrison's drug-addled brain.
l’hotel at 13 rue des beaux-arts
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On November 30, 1900, the writer/bon vivant Oscar Wilde expired at this location at the age of 46 from cerebral meningitis. Of the location (then called Hôtel d'Alsace), Wilde said:
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."
Jim Morrison stayed at this location when he first arrived in Paris in March of 1971 before he moved to the right bank address of 17 rue Beautreillis.
view full location details...jim morrison’s deathplace
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In 1971, a music-industry weary Jim Morrison moved with his partner, Pam Courson, to Paris to pursue writing. Originally staying at the L'Hotel at 13 rue des Beaux-Arts, Morrsion and Courson moved to this apartment near the Place de la Bastille (where the Bastille Prison used to stand) and the Père Lachaise Cemetery (where Morrison would eventually end up).
By this point in his life, Morrison was drinking 2 to 3 bottles of whiskey a day, so the writing was not as prolific as anticipated.
On the night of his death, Morrison and Courson went to see the Robert Mitchum movie Pursued. They returned to the apartment, drifting off to some of Morrison's home movies. Courson awoke to Morrison coughing up blood in the bathroom. She offered to call a medic, but Morrison declined, saying that he wanted to take a bath.
Courson drew a bath for Morrison, then went to bed. She found him dead at 8:00 am, July 3, 1971. He was 27 years old.
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