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Highland Gardens Hotel
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Lisa
June 11, 2022
Opened in the mid-1950s, the Landmark Motor Hotel (now renamed Highland Gardens) has hosted many famous musicians over the years—Jefferson Airplane, The Moody Blues, and the ubiquitous Jim Morrison have all stayed here—but the Los Feliz establishment is best known today for being the spot where Janis Joplin fatally OD’d on the night of October 3, 1970. The 27-year-old singer was found dead in Room 105 with fresh needle tracks in her arm, her lifeless body wedged between the dresser and the bed. There’s a plaque posted outside the room in Joplin’s honor, and another one inside the room’s closet, which fans who spend the night here have turned into a graffiti-covered (and Southern Comfort bottle–filled) shrine to the late singer.
Opened in the mid-1950s, the Landmark Motor Hotel (now renamed Highland Gardens) has hosted many famous musicians over the years—Jefferson Airplane, The Moody Blues, and the ubiquitous Jim Morrison have all stayed here—but the Los Feliz establishment is best known today for being the spot where Jani…
Peter
April 1, 2018
Janis Joplin overdosed here, in Room 105, where there is a makeshift shrine.
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7047 Franklin Ave
Los Angeles, CA
Central LA