Is Jim Morrison’s Favorite Laurel Canyon Hangout About to Become a Liquor Mart?

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The Brown Derby on Vine. Chasen’s on Beverly. Tower Records on Sunset. And now there may be yet another note in the long, mournful dirge of disappeared Hollywood landmarks: the Canyon Country Store on the corner of Laurel Canyon and Lookout Mountain Avenue.

Rambling Reporter has confirmed that the shambolic hippie stomping grounds of the 1960s and ’70s — Cass Elliot slept in its basement and Jim Morrison immortalized it as “the store where creatures meet” in “Love Street” — has been sold. Even more shocking, there are rumors that the new owners plan on turning the shop into a liquor store.

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Co-owner Tommy Bina raised the alarm early in February, posting an Insta video in which he claimed his partners had sold the store “without my knowledge or approval.” He went on to say he didn’t know the new owners

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