I had the incredible gift of seeing The Doors at the Westbury Music Fair when I was a senior in hs in 1968. Not only that but I had front row seats right in front of the stage. Nothing can really capture the trancelike intensity with which Jim Morrison performed. You felt like you had entered a different reality of the inner workings of Jim’s psyche. It was just soooo captivating! He was lost in the music. It was seamless and reached a place deep in your soul as he writhed on stage with his beautiful compelling other worldly voice. I left that concert in a trance - amazed - inspired - touched to the core of my being, and it changed me. I turned hippie embracing everything that meant, and still live with that spirit as a guiding force.
I used to live right across from Alameda high school, at 2229 Central ave back in the 90's; only paid $420 a month for a two bed apartment! Best place I've lived so far.
Thank you for reminding me what an awesome place I grew up. Although I was a child in the 60's, The Bay still was the place to be in the 70's thanks to Bill Graham and all the concerts he produced for us. How many of you reading this comment have been to a "Day On The Green?"
Also from the Bay Area-Palo Alto here! I have such fond memories of those days. I got to a Day on the Green in '80 (I believe) for the Stones headlining during their Tattoo You tour, with Santana, Eddie Money and Peter Tosh opening. Great show except half the mains went out for awhile during the Santana set. I made sure I didn't miss this Stones tour because, of course, we all were thinking Keef wouldn't be around much longer-LOL! Who knew that we'd now be concerned with the world we'll be leaving him!
Well the Native American energy went even deeper because Alameda Ca is a Native American burial site. Alameda was built knowingly on this burial site, which was called "Indian mounds" and therefore, the street in Alameda called Mound Street, which wasn't far from Jim's house.
Our house at Jackson park was one of the first houses built in Alameda and was a hospital at one time. Haunted bigtime! Found a lot of stuff buried in the back yard.
The Indian remains were not treated well. The Shell Mound was leveled, and the dirt was used to build a road in Bay Farm. There were human bones in it.
@@frankpesco7723 The plaque reads that the mound was west of there. It is around Mound St, Johnson, etc. A natural fresh water spring was on Fountain near the corner of High and Encinal.
Born in Alameda 1957, lived in the Gold Coast hood for 10 years then the family moved to central Cali. I was too young for the concert scene but do remember going to the South Shore with my brother the evening the Beatles played Candlestick Park. We could hear the roar, screams from the audience across the Bay! BTW the address for the Clark bench is incorrect, San Jose Ave bisects Chochenyo Park with the bench being on Park Ave (not Park St) on the south end This park is 2-3 blocks over from AHS so it was a popular hangout after school. I really miss the architectural gems in those residential neighborhoods.
Great video. Jim was complicated. He enters our family lore because he hit on my then 19-year-old mom at The Matrix in SF in 1967. She told me that story in the eighties, and I found out more about him and his writings. Great video. Subscribed.
I am so happy to hear you enjoyed the video!! What a cool connection you have to Jim through your mom. Those shows at The Matrix were said to be absolutely incredible. Wow, I would have loved to have seen The Doors live.
I've been living in Alameda since '94 when I met the kid Morrison hung out with when he lived here, "Fudd" Metz (r.i.p.), who was running a record store called Fudd and Tom's Records, located next to the theater, where that wine shop right behind you is now. He said how they'd hide in the bushes on the way to high school and change into their ripped up Levis they were forbidden to wear by their parents, and some other stories. He did manage to make his way backstage at a show in L.A. but Jim was too ripped to remember him.
i think he was on webster st before that 1 by the theater. i had him record the 1st y&t album on cassette for me for $5.. at the theater location i asked him if he had that album for sale and he pointed to it up behind him on the wall but it was 30 something bucks, ha. now i have 2 of the 1st and i had leonard haze sign 1. also have 1 of the 2nd album i had him sign 2.
@@sticksbass Yes, he worked with Leo at the Record Gallery. When I moved here he, Tom, a guy named Eric selling guitars in the rear right corner were the first guys I met. And Fudd used to make mix tapes for me also to get my first Alameda band going.
I went to Fudd Ford’s Records on Webster next to Thin Man Strings music store. From time to time Fudd would create a gallery in the store of drawings and comics (mostly X-rated) that he and Jim created in high school. Hanging in the the gallery was a doors bass drum head with a hole kicked into it by Jim.
My parents bought the Morrison home in 1955 or 56, in Mountain View ca. I grew up there. Great neighborhood. Up in the attic there were writings on the wall by Jim when he was a kid and pretty sure they're still there. My parents still live in the same home. When I was a kid a weird thing happened. I woke up and walked to the kitchen, opened the fridge and someone gently grabbed me under my arm pits, I didn't move , and carried me all the way back to my room and set me down by my bed and I jumped in and just went to sleep. It was dark from the kitchen to my room. My parents to this day say it wasn't them and don't understand it.
@@TinCupChalice40 I thought about that. But the timing is off cause that would have been around 63 or 64, I would have been 6 or 7 years old and Jim passed away in 71. But Jim apparently witnessed a bad accident when he was a kid that he felt had some spiritual connection that came over him. Don't necessarily know if carrying me back to my room was to keep me out of the fridge or what. I think I just assumed it was my dad so never mentioned it at the time. But it came up later in family talks and my dad said it wasn't him. I'm like what?
C'mon man. The ghost of Jim Morrison didn't grab you by the armpits and drag you ..c'mon man. 😐 Let's not be...c'mon 😊 fk me dude. Jesus Christ, let's be grown ups here. I've been in Oakland for 25 years and the black Panthers didn't stop me from eating breakfast in my kitchen on MLK and 40th.
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We lived across the street in Laurel Canyon. I didn’t see Jim a lot, but sometimes we would ride our bikes up and down the hill. The first thing he would ask me if he saw me is, is your mom making cookies? Mom’s cookies were famous on Laurel Canyon.
Excellent tour & information. Thanks. It earned my new subscription. I grew up in the Bay Area & have been to some of those places. It’s amazing how many movies his Alameda home has been in.
Yup....It was Jim Morrison that got me to read "On The Road".....(Well read it AND listened to it too as an audiobook)....I can see why that book had an influence on him!! Extraordinary work it was! Of course whoever the audio reader was of the version I listened to while I read along with the print version did a DAMN GOOD job of narrating it!! But Jim not only had more brains than me he had more balls too, because even though On The Road was in a sense a "Magic Carpet Ride" for me, I never left my "Momma's basement" to actually HIT that road like not only Jim did, but a lot of other adventurous souls as well....I now have mild regrets about that.
I lived in Alameda and worked at NARF in the 80's. I didn't know until now that Jim Morrison lived there and just found out a few months ago that Kamala Harris worked at the McDonalds on Central Ave at that time. It was a nice town but one year around '85 or '86 we never saw the sun the whole summer because of the heavy marine layer. You had to go through a tunnel to get there and compared to Oakland it was like you crossed a border. They had their own power company and there were preservation ordinances against tearing down any house or building.
Edmund Kemper also lived in Alameda for a very short time. ( I watched some of your other videos) Fudd put out a book of his and Jim Morrison’s drawings while they were in high school together. I wish I would’ve bought one of those books. 😢
Thanks for checking out my videos. Yes, you are correct, Kemper used to live in Alameda. I think there's maybe another story on him just on that. Also, where did you see Fudd's book at? I never knew he had one. Please let me know. Thanks!
I heard it wasn't one Indian person that was killed, it was several kids and the driver that past, the Morrison family's car, in a truck earlier before the accident.
I moved to the corner of Park ave and San Jose Ave across the street from Jackson Park in April 67. First moved to Alameda in 62 to the Navel Air station housing. His house was part of my paper route. Went to the same schools also. Your standing at the end of Jackson Park.
I'm on Park Ave a couple of blocks from the iconic bench. I sat there many times. Long before I knew it was one of Morrison's hang out spot. I don't know if you still live here, but most of us will always know Jackson Park as just that. It was renamed Chochenyo Park.
@@miguelruelas8967 Encinal and Park Ave. It is about a block east of Park and Encinal. A Jack in the Box is a block away. The name of the park was changed to something like Chochenyo. It was a whole big Stoner thing.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. "Can you direct me to the Naval Base in Alameda?" "It's where they keep the nuclear vessels." (Pavel Chekov with Nyota Uhura to to an San Francisco MC cop)
I have to admit I'm sort of amazed that I didn't even know Jim lived in the Bay Area at all! I knew about him living in Virginia and San Diego because of his Dad but what a trip to find this out! I wish I'd known about these addresses when I lived down there, would've been interesting to go and see them.
I couldn't make it through this report. The person reporting has no connection to Jim, but rattles off a litany of unsubstanciated "facts" one after another. A grain of truth can be augmented into an interesting story. If presented as "fact", then another person takes that and incorporates into an interesting story that they tell, and then it builds. On-and-on it goes and becomes "the fact". That's exactly how the author "brings Morrison's story to life like never before". I was friends with Fudd Ford when we were in our 20's-30's and he ran a record store in Cupertino, California. We hung out for a year or so until the store closed. "Hard charging" he was not, but it sure sounds good in the story.
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I had the incredible gift of seeing The Doors at the Westbury Music Fair when I was a senior in hs in 1968. Not only that but I had front row seats right in front of the stage. Nothing can really capture the trancelike intensity with which Jim Morrison performed. You felt like you had entered a different reality of the inner workings of Jim’s psyche. It was just soooo captivating! He was lost in the music. It was seamless and reached a place deep in your soul as he writhed on stage with his beautiful compelling other worldly voice. I left that concert in a trance - amazed - inspired - touched to the core of my being, and it changed me. I turned hippie embracing everything that meant, and still live with that spirit as a guiding force.
I used to live right across from Alameda high school, at 2229 Central ave back in the 90's; only paid $420 a month for a two bed apartment! Best place I've lived so far.
I got to see the Doors in 1967 in LA--phenomenal
That's awesome. I would have loved to have seen them play live.
Thank you for reminding me what an awesome place I grew up. Although I was a child in the 60's, The Bay still was the place to be in the 70's thanks to Bill Graham and all the concerts he produced for us. How many of you reading this comment have been to a "Day On The Green?"
Me!! Lol 😎
me too plus one at kezar stadium in golden gate park with peter frampton
Also from the Bay Area-Palo Alto here! I have such fond memories of those days. I got to a Day on the Green in '80 (I believe) for the Stones headlining during their Tattoo You tour, with Santana, Eddie Money and Peter Tosh opening. Great show except half the mains went out for awhile during the Santana set. I made sure I didn't miss this Stones tour because, of course, we all were thinking Keef wouldn't be around much longer-LOL! Who knew that we'd now be concerned with the world we'll be leaving him!
@@pi.actual worked the reception desk & phones at BGP & saw stars
@@1ofakindpisces I believe I went to every single one of course Led Zeppelin was the best as far as I’m concerned
Lived in Alameda from 57-59 and 61-73. Graduated from Encinal HS in ‘68. I love this town.
I worked out at the Alameda Athletic Club in 1982. On Park Blvd
Geeat presentation. Thank you for this wonderful insight to Jim Morrison and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well the Native American energy went even deeper because Alameda Ca is a Native American burial site. Alameda was built knowingly on this burial site, which was called "Indian mounds" and therefore, the street in Alameda called Mound Street, which wasn't far from Jim's house.
Our house at Jackson park was one of the first houses built in Alameda and was a hospital at one time. Haunted bigtime! Found a lot of stuff buried in the back yard.
The Indian remains were not treated well. The Shell Mound was leveled, and the dirt was used to build a road in Bay Farm. There were human bones in it.
@@jameshudkins2210 Last piece of shell mound is at Lincoln Park on High Street , it has a plaque stating so. Use to climb on it as a kid.
@@frankpesco7723 The plaque reads that the mound was west of there. It is around Mound St, Johnson, etc.
A natural fresh water spring was on Fountain near the corner of High and Encinal.
Born in Alameda 1957, lived in the Gold Coast hood for 10 years then the family moved to central Cali. I was too young for the concert scene but do remember going to the South Shore with my brother the evening the Beatles played Candlestick Park. We could hear the roar, screams from the audience across the Bay! BTW the address for the Clark bench is incorrect, San Jose Ave bisects Chochenyo Park with the bench being on Park Ave (not Park St) on the south end This park is 2-3 blocks over from AHS so it was a popular hangout after school. I really miss the architectural gems in those residential neighborhoods.
My friends dad was on the swim team with Jim. He showed me his yearbook that Jim signed. It said “Thanks for the help in math. - Jim”
That’s very cool!!
Ash Jones was the swim coach.
I love my little Island city ☺️
I love Alameda, too! : )
I was born in Alameda in “67” the year that The Doors first two albums were released. 🔥
Great video. Jim was complicated. He enters our family lore because he hit on my then 19-year-old mom at The Matrix in SF in 1967. She told me that story in the eighties, and I found out more about him and his writings. Great video. Subscribed.
I am so happy to hear you enjoyed the video!! What a cool connection you have to Jim through your mom. Those shows at The Matrix were said to be absolutely incredible. Wow, I would have loved to have seen The Doors live.
I've been living in Alameda since '94 when I met the kid Morrison hung out with when he lived here, "Fudd" Metz (r.i.p.), who was running a record store called Fudd and Tom's Records, located next to the theater, where that wine shop right behind you is now. He said how they'd hide in the bushes on the way to high school and change into their ripped up Levis they were forbidden to wear by their parents, and some other stories. He did manage to make his way backstage at a show in L.A. but Jim was too ripped to remember him.
i think he was on webster st before that 1 by the theater. i had him record the 1st y&t album on cassette for me
for $5.. at the theater location i asked him if he had that album for sale and he pointed to it up behind him on the wall but it was 30 something bucks, ha. now i have 2 of the 1st and i had leonard haze sign 1. also have 1 of the 2nd album i had him sign 2.
thx, for your story!
@@sticksbass Yes, he worked with Leo at the Record Gallery. When I moved here he, Tom, a guy named Eric selling guitars in the rear right corner were the first guys I met. And Fudd used to make mix tapes for me also to get my first Alameda band going.
I went to Fudd Ford’s Records on Webster next to Thin Man Strings music store. From time to time Fudd would create a gallery in the store of drawings and comics (mostly X-rated) that he and Jim created in high school. Hanging in the the gallery was a doors bass drum head with a hole kicked into it by Jim.
@markr.k8260 that's amaze. I wonder is Fudd Ford's Records still there in 2024.
My parents bought the Morrison home in 1955 or 56, in Mountain View ca. I grew up there. Great neighborhood. Up in the attic there were writings on the wall by Jim when he was a kid and pretty sure they're still there. My parents still live in the same home. When I was a kid a weird thing happened. I woke up and walked to the kitchen, opened the fridge and someone gently grabbed me under my arm pits, I didn't move , and carried me all the way back to my room and set me down by my bed and I jumped in and just went to sleep. It was dark from the kitchen to my room. My parents to this day say it wasn't them and don't understand it.
Do you think it was Jim and if it was I wonder why he didn’t want you in the fridge very interesting
@@TinCupChalice40 I thought about that. But the timing is off cause that would have been around 63 or 64, I would have been 6 or 7 years old and Jim passed away in 71. But Jim apparently witnessed a bad accident when he was a kid that he felt had some spiritual connection that came over him.
Don't necessarily know if carrying me back to my room was to keep me out of the fridge or what. I think I just assumed it was my dad so never mentioned it at the time. But it came up later in family talks and my dad said it wasn't him. I'm like what?
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C'mon man. The ghost of Jim Morrison didn't grab you by the armpits and drag you ..c'mon man. 😐 Let's not be...c'mon 😊 fk me dude. Jesus Christ, let's be grown ups here. I've been in Oakland for 25 years and the black Panthers didn't stop me from eating breakfast in my kitchen on MLK and 40th.
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We lived across the street in Laurel Canyon. I didn’t see Jim a lot, but sometimes we would ride our bikes up and down the hill. The first thing he would ask me if he saw me is, is your mom making cookies? Mom’s cookies were famous on Laurel Canyon.
Excellent tour & information. Thanks. It earned my new subscription. I grew up in the Bay Area & have been to some of those places. It’s amazing how many movies his Alameda home has been in.
Thank you for this wonderful video essay!! 🔥
Yup....It was Jim Morrison that got me to read "On The Road".....(Well read it AND listened to it too as an audiobook)....I can see why that book had an influence on him!! Extraordinary work it was! Of course whoever the audio reader was of the version I listened to while I read along with the print version did a DAMN GOOD job of narrating it!!
But Jim not only had more brains than me he had more balls too, because even though On The Road was in a sense a "Magic Carpet Ride" for me, I never left my "Momma's basement" to actually HIT that road like not only Jim did, but a lot of other adventurous souls as well....I now have mild regrets about that.
Really well researched and presented
Thanks so much!
Great video very well done thanks
Great video thank you for posting
cool, i was born i alameda and lived there about 32 yrs.
Nice! I love that little island. And a connection to the Lizard King, too!
I lived in Alameda and worked at NARF in the 80's. I didn't know until now that Jim Morrison lived there and just found out a few months ago that Kamala Harris worked at the McDonalds on Central Ave at that time. It was a nice town but one year around '85 or '86 we never saw the sun the whole summer because of the heavy marine layer. You had to go through a tunnel to get there and compared to Oakland it was like you crossed a border. They had their own power company and there were preservation ordinances against tearing down any house or building.
Edmund Kemper also lived in Alameda for a very short time. ( I watched some of your other videos)
Fudd put out a book of his and Jim Morrison’s drawings while they were in high school together. I wish I would’ve bought one of those books. 😢
Thanks for checking out my videos. Yes, you are correct, Kemper used to live in Alameda. I think there's maybe another story on him just on that. Also, where did you see Fudd's book at? I never knew he had one. Please let me know. Thanks!
I heard it wasn't one Indian person that was killed, it was several kids and the driver that past, the Morrison family's car, in a truck earlier before the accident.
Thanks for having me edit this. Sorry about the audio issues. :/
I moved to the corner of Park ave and San Jose Ave across the street from Jackson Park in April 67. First moved to Alameda in 62 to the Navel Air station housing. His house was part of my paper route. Went to the same schools also. Your standing at the end of Jackson Park.
Excellent! What a cool connection to the Lizard King!
I'm on Park Ave a couple of blocks from the iconic bench. I sat there many times. Long before I knew it was one of Morrison's hang out spot. I don't know if you still live here, but most of us will always know Jackson Park as just that. It was renamed Chochenyo Park.
@@-PurpleDiamond- Why Chochenyo??
My uncle told me he was on the swim team with him.
Yes, I too made a pilgrimage to that house in Alameda....About maybe 5 or 6 years ago??😶
If Jim and his gf could have stayed away from heroin, we all would be enjoying more of his music.
Jackson Park was wild back in the late 60's. Is was considered the Haight Ashbury of the East Bay. Cops would be afraid to go in.
Where at in the East Bay?
@@miguelruelas8967 Encinal and Park Ave. It is about a block east of Park and Encinal. A Jack in the Box is a block away. The name of the park was changed to something like Chochenyo. It was a whole big Stoner thing.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. "Can you direct me to the Naval Base in Alameda?" "It's where they keep the nuclear vessels." (Pavel Chekov with Nyota Uhura to to an San Francisco MC cop)
Interestingly I will always see Jim as "belonging" more to Los Angeles than to San Francisco.
I have to admit I'm sort of amazed that I didn't even know Jim lived in the Bay Area at all! I knew about him living in Virginia and San Diego because of his Dad but what a trip to find this out! I wish I'd known about these addresses when I lived down there, would've been interesting to go and see them.
You should do Neil Young
Thanks for the suggestion! Yes, I have Neil Young on my list of stories to film.
What is it with states like Pennsylvania & Minnesota, need I remind you about all the crap that happened at Penn State?
I couldn't make it through this report. The person reporting has no connection to Jim, but rattles off a litany of unsubstanciated "facts" one after another. A grain of truth can be augmented into an interesting story. If presented as "fact", then another person takes that and incorporates into an interesting story that they tell, and then it builds. On-and-on it goes and becomes "the fact". That's exactly how the author "brings Morrison's story to life like never before". I was friends with Fudd Ford when we were in our 20's-30's and he ran a record store in Cupertino, California. We hung out for a year or so until the store closed. "Hard charging" he was not, but it sure sounds good in the story.
I tell you this . . . No Eternal Reward Will Forgive Him Now For Setting Off a Cherry Bomb In Home Room on His Last Day at Alameda High
. . . Another Flashing Chance . . . at BLISS . . . another KISS💋. . . another KISS💋
Thats right!!!!
And Kris Kristofferson
Bay Area BABYLON? Babylon??? Alameda is not … in any way…a Babylon. Come on.
Exactly 😂
To be fair, Bay Area Babylon is the name of the channel. It’s not referring specifically to Alameda. But it is an odd choice for a name.
Although very common in the bay, your man bun is anything but hip (fyi)
Silly narration.