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Sandy Koufax tried to supplement his Dodgers salary and purchased the "Tropicana Motel" in 1962. The motor lodge, with low weekly rates and kitchenettes in all 74 rooms, was built as short and long-term housing, for those who couldn’t afford apartments. The rich and famous, though, didn’t patronize ��Sandy Koufax’s Tropicana Motel” as Koufax had hoped. Jim Morrison of the Doors liked to drink way too much at the "The Palms", a low-rent lesbian bar across the street from the Tropicana. Jim would then stumble back across Santa Monica Boulevard and pass out at the Tropicana. Tom Waits lived at the Tropicana for nine years with a Steinway upright piano jammed into his room’s kitchenette. Van Morrison wrote “T.B. Sheets” and other songs while staying there and Big Brother & the Holding Company, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Alice Cooper all worked out of, and lived in, the Tropicana. As did Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Blondie, and Tom Petty.