#Ray Manzarek

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The Doors. 1968

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The Doors blacklight poster (1967)

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Bobby Klein : "I was the first official photographer of the Doors, and this shot was taken early on. It was 1967 and we were heading to Venice Beach to take some publicity shots but got hungry, so Jim recommended stopping off at Lucky U Cafe, his favourite place in Los Angeles to grab breakfast. It was a tiny Mexican restaurant owned by a Chinese man, pretty much just a counter with no tables. Jim ordered a beer and a menudo – a beef and chilli soup – to line his stomach. It wasn’t uncommon to see him sink six beers in an hour. I’ve always enjoyed shooting people when they’re eating because it creates an intimacy. So I got behind the counter and started snapping away. Jim was beautiful. He looked like Michelangelo’s David. He was checking me out: “Who the hell is this guy?” He didn’t suffer fools, and this was early on in our relationship. There’s an intensity in his eyes: he was totally serious about being seen as a credible poet."

January 1967, Lucky U Café, Venice Beach, photo by Bobby Klein

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Jim Morrison of the Doors

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Ray careful when you play! Your glasses might slip right off your nose 👓

Am I right?

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The Doors at the Northern California Folk-Rock Festival in San Jose, May 1968.

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🚪Doors Memes🚪

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The fact that the doors kinda have their own version of mclennon and nobody knows about it is crazy, what you know about morrizarek

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FAB FAX (?) ABOUT THE DOORS

From the July 1968 issue of TeenSet Magazine.

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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

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The Doors photographed at the original Hard Rock Cafe, 1969 by Henry Diltz.

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I don't post stuff like this usually but it's been a hard night..might delete later

Oh man Ray's book broke me

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The Doors photographed by Gloria Stavers in New Jersey, 1967

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