Is Jim Morrison’s Favorite Laurel Canyon Hangout About to Become a Liquor Mart?
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Laurel Canyon’s storied Country Store has been sold. But what its new owners plan to do with it remains unclear.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text 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. Related Stories Movies Sidney Flanigan, Sofia Yepes' 'The Sweetest Kill' Lands at Stonecutter Media Business L.A.'s Graffiti Towers Finds Buyer in $470 Million Deal 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 or “their intentions” but acknowledged speculation that major changes were coming, including to the building itself. “Which is not okay,” he stated. “If you care about the Canyon Country Store and its history, come and see me and show your support.” Rambling did indeed stop by, but instead of finding Bina behind the counter, we ran into another co-owner, David Shamsa, who between ringing up pastrami sandwiches and Cadbury Flakes (they started stocking them after David Bowie kept asking for them) offered his version of what was going on. According to Shamsa, 82, he and three other investors — including Bina’s now-deceased brother, who left his 10 percent share to Tommy — purchased the place in 1982, doing their best to keep its bohemian vibe intact by not making major chang...
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