On August 27, 1967, The Doors performed two shows at Cheetah in Santa Monica, California.

Jim Morrison, Dorothy Manzarek, Ray's mother Helen Manzarek, and Thor (Jim Manzarek's dog). Palos Verdes, California, 1965. 📷From the archive of Ray Manzarek

MORE THAN just a good rock group, The Doors represent two things to their millions of followers. Either they project the music-plus-sensuality that is The Doors musical sense combined with Morrison's presence, or they can project the strange drama and rock that comes from Morrison's head.” -Pop Scene Service, April 6, 1968

©  Joel Brodsky, November 1966, New York

1967.07.28-30   Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA.

Asbury Park Convention Hall New Jersey, September 2nd 1967. 📷 Gloria Stavers

16 Magazine Photo Session, New York City, NY, Mid September,1967. 📷 Gloria Stavers

1967.06.19-30   The Scene, New York, NY, US. Photos by   Don Paulsen (June 27th)

The Endless quest a vigil

of watchtowers and fortresses

against the sea and time.

Have they won? Perhaps.

They still stand and in

their silent rooms still wander

the souls of the dead,

who keep their watch on the living.

Soon enough we shall join them.

Soon enough we shall walk

the walls of time. We shall

miss nothing

except each other.

(Jim Morrison, THE VILLAGE TAPES, WILDERNESS)

🔻January-February 1967, Bronson Caves, Los Angeles, California. Photographer Bobby Klein

Jim Morrison. Alexandria, VA, 1960

1967.05.29. Grover Cleveland High School, Reseda, CA. Photo by Don Johnson