Destinations for a time machine....Hollywood Bowl on April 4, 1943

(Left To right) Norma Shearer, Ida Lupino, Mary Pickford, Loretta Young, Rita Hayworth & Barbara Stanwyck.‬ On that "beauty tribune" was also: Shirley Temple, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Rosalind Russel, Janet Gaynor, Joan Bennett, Marlene Dietrich, Irene Dunne, Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman....

How could I miss this ? 😄....but I`am glad I met Miss Loretta Young, 29 years later 🙌

Searching for Jim....

Mustang....

Santa Monica sunset....

"riders on the storm"....

The recording of LA Woman in December 1970 at The Doors Office on Santa Monica Blvd. The boys seem to be attending a funeral rather than being in the process of creating some of their best songs. Photo: Wendel Hamick

After reading the biographies of the three surviving Doors in a short time, I have to wonder if they forgot to have fun while the train rushed away ? One can discern a certain playfulness and pleasure around 1965 when Manzarek and Morrison lived together on Frazer Av. (Venice). After that, there is most hard work (and trouble) during the incomparable creative process that they went through the next few years. But joy .... is just not there (or so they forgot to write about it ?). Densmore`s book is like a letter of reconciliation; "and a little sad that I did not really understand what was going on ... then". What you get from all three books (and they actually complement each other), is a very good picture of who Morrison was; an enormously talented and tormented young man, whose legacy is still as relevant today ....

Jim....he would have been 80 today.

5 x Chaplin....

..and not a boring second 😊

The Kid, 1921

The Gold Rush, 1925

City Lights, 1931

Modern Times, 1936

Limelight, 1952

Money....

Room 32....

"I am a guide to the labyrinth

Come & see me

in the green hotel

Rm. 32

I will be there after 9:30 P.M."

Venice streets....

Set the night on fire....

If you ever wondered about the true essence of Jim Morrison....this is about the closest you will ever get. Memories are retold with simplicity and honesty about James Douglas; the rebel without the bullshit. So many Doors we never got to see....

light my fire....

"Pitfall"....

The Doors at the Hollywood Bowl, 1968....

..a special band, sometimes - just brilliant

Smith house....

LA, 1958, by Craig Ellwwod

Santa Monica....

Forever young....is a short journey

"I`am not denying that I`ve had a good time these last three or four years and met a lot of interesting people and seen a lot of things in a short space of time that I probably wouldn`t have run into in twenty years of living. So I can`t say that I regret it, [but] if I had to do it over again I think I would have gone more for the quiet underdemonstrative little artist plodding away in his own garden."

 Salli Stevenson interview with Jim Morrison , 13-10-1970

Morrison Hotel Sessions....

..Roadhouse Blues on side two....just superb !!

Collaborators....

L.A. Woman....

The Doors final masterpiece. Released this day....50 years ago.

Deutsch House....

Hollywood Hills, 1954, by John Lautner