Hello, I Love You was released as a single with Love Street as the B side on June 4, 1968. The song appears on their third album "Waiting for the Sun."
Love Street is an actual location in Los Angeles that Jim and Pam lived at. This photo, taken after Jim died, has "Mr. Mojo Risin" spray painted onto the building where they lived.
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Returning from New York, Jim and Pam decided to take the next logical step in their relationship by moving in together. With the Elektra deal solidly in hand, and Jim’s continuing income from the band seeming more secure as a result, the couple moved into one of three small apartments in a house on Rothdell Trail, perched on a hillside just above the Country Store.
While the Country Store still thrives, the house on Rothdell Trail - more commonly known to Doors fans as “Love Street” - remained for years a sad, empty shell, stripped to its foundations and left vulnerable to the elements and to fans who make pilgrimages there on a regular basis. But there was a time when it was the perfect place to live.
"The place in Laurel Canyon was dirt cheap," remembers Mirandi Babitz. "There were like three apartments, and Jim and Pam were in one floor of it, in the middle part. I’m sure they weren’t paying more than sixty bucks a month, because that’s all any of us was paying."
Jimmy Greenspoon of Three Dog Night lived with Danny Hutton, two doors down from Jim and Pamela, and a number of other stars of the music scene lived in the neighborhood as well.
“Gene Clark of The Byrds was around the corner, and Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman were across the street,” says Greenspoon. "John and Michelle Philips were right there, and Cass Elliot was a little further up the street. So was Frank Zappa and his family."
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Set the Night on FireLaurel Canyon is a focal point of folk folklore. It’s nestled in the hills about two miles north of the Sunset Strip, and the cottages along its twisty mountain roads were famously home to Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Carole King, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and members of the Byrds, the Monkees, Love, and so many other bands that defined the California sound of the mid-sixties.
The rent was cheap, the air was quiet, and the views were stunning. There were parties, of course, but Laurel Canyon was more about hanging out than getting crazy. The hard-core party animals lived down in Hollywood. Those of us who were playing in loud clubs every night enjoyed having a peaceful retreat during the day.
Jim immortalized Pam's "house and garden" and the "store where the creatures meet" in the lyrics to our song “Love Street.” There was something about Laurel Canyon that drew creativity out of people, as evidenced by the staggering amount of classic American music that came out of its hills.
Jim wasn’t exactly an aspiring folk singer enamored with acoustic love ballads, but the Canyon managed to inspire him all the same. In 2018, fifty years after the release of “Love Street,” the city of Los Angeles placed a historical marker outside Jim and Pam’s former home on Rothdell Trail and officially renamed part of the road Love Street.
The sign reads, "Love Street" was written by The Doors about Rothdell Trail and the surrounding area in Laurel Canyon where lead singer Jim Morrison and his girlfriend Pamela Courson resided. The song appears on their third album "Waiting for the Sun." The Doors are one of the most influential American groups in Rock and Roll history, and embodied the communal and psychedelic spirit of the 1960's that coalesced in Laurel Canyon."
There's some fan art work on the utility box by the store.
The interior of the store is like a regular convenience store. They have a patio out front with a coffee and muffin bar.
The address is 8021 Rothdell Trail, Los Angeles CA 90046
A fan visited the location and wrote about it here.
Love Street lyrics:
She lives on Love Street
Lingers long on Love Street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens
She has robes and she has monkeys
Lazy diamond studded flunkies
She has wisdom and knows what to do
She has me, and she has you
I see you live on Love Street
There's this store where the creatures meet
I wonder what they do in there
Summer Sunday, and a year
I guess I like it fine, so far
She lives on Love Street
Lingers long on Love Street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens
Palace in the Canyon is another great song, presumabley about the place, but that did not make it to publication. Beautiful, melancholy song, listen to it. This guy writes about the history of it.
