The Story of the Controversial Mexican Hotel Where Jim Morrison Wrote ‘L.A. Woman’
- by Daniela Flores
IT WAS BUILT AS A HAVEN FOR CELEBRITIES AND ENDED UP BEING A PILE OF DEBRIS.
During the early 1950s, the Hotel Playa Hermosa, in Nayarit, Mexico, was built and inaugurated in a grand ceremony by Mexican President Miguel Alemán Valdés, would become an exotic destination, a place for the wealthy and a planned beach resort for celebrities, and one of the first resorts of its kind in Mexico.
Writing “L.A. Woman”
The same luxury resort where Jim Morrison, Elizabeth Taylor, and Hollywood’s biggest stars spent their wild vacations is the same place that inspired the lead singer of The Doors to create the song “L.A. Woman” and his pseudonym Mr. Mojo Risin’.
