The motel in 2014, in better — but still pretty seedy — days Don Saban There is an excellent chance you have spent time at The Hollywood Center Motel — if only onscreen. The Rockford Files shot there. So did Cannon, Mannix and T.J. Hooker. In 1997’s L.A. Confidential, a character turns up in one of its rooms with his throat slit, and the place pops up again in a 2008 episode of NCIS. “I take it the Ritz was booked,” a character quips while surveying the seedy surroundings.