Former Location –
Yep, there really was a Mars Hotel… it was only a few blocks away from where the 1974 Grateful Dead album “From the Mars Hotel
From the Mars Hotel was the Dead’s seventh studio album.
Mars Hotel Tracks:
Side One:
U.S. Blues
China Doll
Unbroken Chain
Loose Lucy
Side Two:
Scarlet Begonias
Pride of Cucamonga
Money Money
Ship of Fools
Mars Hotel
192 Fourth Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Grateful Dead Discography
1967 – The Grateful Dead
1968 – Anthem of the Sun
1969 – Aoxomoxoa
1969 – Live/Dead
1970 – Workingman’s Dead
1970 – American Beauty
1971 – Grateful Dead
1972 – Europe ’72
1973 – History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One
1973 – Wake Of The Flood
1974 – From the Mars Hotel
1975 – Blues for Allah
1976 – Steal Your Face
1977 – Terrapin Station
1978 – Shakedown Street
1980 – Go to Heaven
1981 – Reckoning
1981 – Dead Set
1987 – In the Dark
1989 – Dylan & the Dead
1989 – Built To Last
Bowie also uses a clip of him in front of the mars hotel in the “rebel rebel” video…check it on you tube…its only for a few seconds
It was demolished in the 70’s, or maybe 80’s to make way for a big convention center. One single photo of the real mars Hotel exists and I finally put it together.
I watched the Mars Hotel get torn down, sometime before July, 1981, from my office at 657 Mission St, approximately a block north, and about two-three east.
There’s a film on Youtube called The Grateful Dead Movie (or something like that). At one brief interval, a mechanical digger pushes over the last standing remnant; the doorway with the sign over it. The movie was released in 1977