JIM MORRISON || Northern Virginia Story Location Tour! 

I had a friend who's father went to school with Jim Morrison. Even has a yearbook signed by Morrison. Said Jim was super quiet most of the time.

So glad Navajo people had a part of Jim Morrison. So glad to here that story.👍

I was born in Alexandria VA. and have lived here 90% of my life. I drive by GW high school every day

I am a huge fan of The Doors and Jim Morrison ❤❤❤❤ obsessed truly 😄

Great job! My Dad went to GW with him. He sold his Jim Morrison signed year book for $4k.

His dad was not just and admiral but a 4 star one. There’s only about 10-15 of these on active duty at any given time. There are many bldgs and other things on naval bases named after him. He was truly the biggest of the brass.

My brother went from St. Mary's school in Alexandria to GW we lived nearby and are DC natives good vid✔️

I appreciate this stuff. Not many people understand how much of pop culture came out of the D.C. area. I’m from Bowie and my Half Brother lived in the Woodbridge area.

Real cool documentary film

Very well done! Precise story on James Douglas Morrison

My brother and Jim went to the same school in Arlington, growing up there then and now is fantastic, id say the best area in all the country., for safe clean hoods, education, culture and career advancement. Our house on 27th was about a 1/2 mile from the Morisons house on Evergreen. Nth Arlington neighborhoods are 6 miles from downtown DC and a few miles from the Pentagon. Both then and now those hoods residents run the federal govt. My sister still lives in Nth Arlington. Two SC Justices live in her hood. Thank for the video.

I talked to a fellow in the Norfolk Virginia area who said he lived near Jim l believe in the neighboring town of Portsmouth Virginia. Which makes sense as Norfolk is a huge Navy town. Some of the lyrics in his songs refer to this time and area. Such as "the blue bus is calling us" the Navy busses. Outlaw trailer court on the side of the road named Kings Highway ( Outlaw is a local family name.)

Thanks for putting in the work. I would have never done it!!

A high school gal - later in life - saw NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE book. She recognized him instantly - by his lips. She bought the book.

" Weird Scenes Inside the Beltway"..... What a RUSH

Thank you 🙏 I used to work at GW. I channeled Jim 🌞

Dang my other post is a friggin essay so I thought I would make an other one rather than add to it. I forgot something really cool. The coolest thing I found in my limited research. Knowing the books he was interested in during his youth or the high school era anyway, I checked the local library shelves for a lot of them. In those days, pre computer, there would be old library cards in the back inside cover denoting who checked the books out the borrower would sign or print their name. Even when I looked and most books had already been coded for computer check out and inventory, many of these cards remained in old dusty editions of obscure stuff like Rimbaud's poetry, Nietzsche, etc. I was rewarded by finding one Jim had signed out!!! I did not steal the book, but took the card!!! I am only admitting this now because I am far beyond a statute of limitations and too old to fear reprisal or shame LOL. I value this card to this day!!! I will never sell it on eBay or crap like that though, will pass it on. Would be pretty damn hard to establish provenance anyway...or at least costly for an appraiser if I could even locate one

GW High School Alumni meet up regularly. My Dad graduated from GW in 66’

I was born in Alexandria and graduated from GW in 1966. Jim graduated I believe it was in 1961. I use to roller skate at that rink, and knew Phillips & Mama Cass Elliot went to GW as well. I never met Jim. Sadly to say. I lived on Duke ST. Then moved to the Delray area on Windsor Ave. where Jim went alot. The club the maker of this video was talking about may have been the club all the kids knew on RT !. If I m not mistaken it was called the 1320 Club. It got its name from its street number address. I was an Usher at the old Richmond Theater on the 8 hundred block of King St. over 60 years ago. It was originally named The Little Theater built in 1929. If any of you are from that area, remember how we us to go to the side of the Masonic Temple on King St. and slide down the side of its lawn during snow season? Brings back a lot of memories. Got to meet Willard Scott at dinner years ago near where he lived in the Paris, Va. area. It was on RT. 17 at Ashbys Inn. Good luck to all of you.

Yes Morrison is very interesting and intelligent dude. It sad that he never found peace.

Great video.

Great!

I found the Alexandria house decades ago, around 1989, while living in the DC/Arlington/Alexandria/Northern VA area for a while, 5 years. I started because I discovered he went to went to high school nearby in Alexandria, GW High School (from Hopkins/Sugerman book "No One Here Gets Out Alive") I then went to the OLD Alexandria Library in the "Old Town" area not far from the GW Masonic monument, I think it was on King or Prince, it was an ancient library, maybe torn down now because I do not recall a library near the beltway! I suspected I could find old local telephone directories (in those days the directories always provided a home address, if they even exist anymore). I did find them for like 1960-61. I knew Admiral Morrison would be listed and it was. I had little difficulty finding the house, less than 2 miles at most away. I already possessed excellent local street maps (pre GPS!) because I was an re appraiser. I even managed to cold knock and interview a few neighbors who still resided in the neighborhood and recalled Jim and/or the family, no luck finding Mary Werbelow who had lived nearby around the corner. She was his girl right up to UCLA as you know. (you're prob way too late to do that!!! I mean find existing neighbors, but you never know)). I was actually already somewhat familiar with the area as had lived off Russell Road for 6 months...if I recall his house was on Woodland Terrace, This is how we did it pre internet! I had thought about a book because I had also always been fascinated with Morrison, but around the same time or a year later maybe, Densmore came out with a book, then others, the market seemed glutted...mostly I was just interested. EDIT: I can even dig up a polaroid of the house you are showing from that time and some notes I took from the conversations I had, but I doubt you would be interested. You can reply if you are and I can see wat I can do. I doubt that. LOL. Oh, I forgot, very interesting video, way beyond what I did and when I did I just happened to be near (i.e when out in LA, I tracked down Venice locales, Sunset Blvd like Whiskey a Go Go, London Fog first gigs, etc, the motel he liked to crash at on La Cienega etc...all of the former even earlier though, early 80s my college years)

According to Mark Opsasnick, a local author who has extensively researched the movements of the Morrisons, they never lived on N Evergreen St. They relocated from California to Alexandria in 1959, where Jim attended, and graduated from, George Washington high school. The WUSA story on the N Evergreen St house was equivocal in their claims, and no one in my wife's family, who lived two doors down from the house you cite, remembers the Morrisons living there.

Wow. This video is FANTASTIC! 5 stars. You can see the Arlington County Property Search for the South Glebe Road and 13th Street address. Parents Steve and Clara Morrison are listed on the archived section of the records. ❤ One other location for Jim was in Falls Church on Jefferson Avenue in the Greenway Downs neighborhood near Route 50 and Annandale Road. Jim attended Oak Street Elementary School for his second and third grade I think. In fact I had read somewhere that one of the cute broadly smiling kid photos of him was taken while he attended that school. Can't wait for Part 2!🎉

Great video! I grew up in nearby Springfield and recall being amazed that Jim had lived so close when I read Sugarman's book in the early 1980s, which was then the only book about Jim. You mentioned that there have been many changes in the area since Jim's time, but one thing I have to add is that back then those areas in Alexandria and along Route 1 were kinda seedy. Although I don't have direct knowledge since I wasn't yet alive, I do recall the areas in the 1970s, and it was pretty obvious that it had been kind of rough and rundown for awhile. For instance, one Alexandria area where there are now shops and expensive residences was a massive rail yard with an adjacent junkyard. The area by the wharf was industrial, and Route 1 had lots of bars and cheap motels. Most of the big changes took place in the late 1980s- early 2000s. I met a guy who went to high school with Jim, who described him as "quite a joker". I appreciate the research and effort you put into this video. I learned some things that I didn't know!

I grew up in Alexandria in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and had a few friends whose parents remembered him from GW. (I was a faculty brat at VTS. My folks are buried in that little Poe-esque cemetery at Quaker and Seminary.) I had friends, the Nugents, who grew up in that house in the Beverly Hills neighborhood, near the old campus of St Agnes. I went to St Stephen’s, but had a sibling who attended TC. Back then, there was a scene among the young priests at VTS that felt a lot like the FSM movement at Berkeley. I’ve always wondered if his “seminary school” reference had anything to do with that. It was, well, right up Quaker Lane, after all. Anyway..thank you for a fun trip; I enjoyed this very much. (PS. I think Mama Cass also worked at Steak in a Sack at Bradlee.)🙏🏻🌻🐢

I was a navy brat and we we're stationed in Coronado amphibious base in san Diego. Jim lived there too and referred to it as "tedious and boring ". He was fascinated with ghetto neighborhoods

DelRay was nothing like it is now but when i lived on Randolph street. It was a cool area but again not like it is today.

One of my best friends lives right next to the Morrison home in Alexandria. One of Jim's girlfriends went to our high school, we swiped the yearbook w/her pic in it from the school library. Her neighbors remembered Jim borrowing books from them when he was in high school.

When the Doors played at the Alexandria Roller Rink, my Aunt was a groupie and got backstage at that show. The crowd was going nuts because Jim was late getting there. The Doors had done a show earlier that night in Baltimore and they had a heated argument after the show which is why Jim didn't ride with them in the limo to Alexandria where they were playing. He took a cab instead. The band would usually open up the show by playing for a good 30 minutes before he came on anyway. One rumor is that Jim started the argument with his bandmates because he didn't want anyone to know who that his father was the Navy Commander involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident. This way he could get there late so he wouldn't have to talk to the media before the show who might ask him what it was like to come back to his old stomping grounds in Alexandria which might lead to questions about his family and his father etc. Back to the story with my Aunt. So she wanders around back stage while the band is already on stage playing looking to see if she can meet Jim Morrison. She eventually rounds the corner to the side wing just off stage and there's Jim Morrison 5 feet away leaning against the wall wearing his mirror aviator sunglasses smoking a cigarette. When she told us this story we were on the edge of our seats. "what happened next?! did he say anything?!" She said "no man, he threw his cigarette down on the wooden stage floor" We were all like "ok whatever, but what did you do next? You talked to him right? What did you say?". She says "I ran over there and put the cigarette out with my shoe, I mean I thought it would burn the whole place down!". We all busted out laughing so hard because my Aunt always was a worry wart. Jim just ignored her and waltzed out onto the stage and the crowd went nuts...

I use to scate there for years but i was very young and the years were 1979- 1983. I went to GW as well butit was a middle school

Thanks... I grew up in Alexandria during the 60s and 70s. My best friend and I were separated when she went to GW, and I was bussed to Hammond. I went to that skating rink. Wow! I only had a picture in my mind. Thank you! We bought pizza in Del Ray. We had friends across the bridge in Del Ray. I lived closer to Old Town Alexandria where I could walk to Potomac river. This was my childhood. Not all my memories are good. A small black girl who was an only child with what they called "good hair" made me a target. But the history in Alexandria is amazing. Thanks for the memories ❤

I remember the Roller Rink.

I believe that Cass Elliot went to the same high school as Jim

Enh...I give you a C+ on your research. You honestly have to delve into Clearwater, St.Petersburg, Tallahassee, Sebring , Florida. The first 4 Doors albums were about things that happened here in Florida. His girlfriend was here. He was all over this area. His songs had a huge amount of references to places and events here in Florida. His grandparent's house on Oseola Avenue was demolished a couple of years ago. His library card is on display in Clearwater Library. He was a pudgy outcast kid here. He got drunk all the time. There are some files on him with the Clearwater Police Department that are sealed to this day. You really could write books on him down here......Riders on the Storm was really from here. But you won't find the flavor that he saw here today. It was a different world back then. Jim's writings were specifically from the 1960-1962 time period in Florida.

Officially died of a heart attack not an overdose. He was not a big drug guy. He liked his drink.

This is THE story behind the song "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)". I've heard it said this is about how Janis Joplin first introduced Jim Morrison to the blues. NONSENSE. Here's a clue from this song that gives us insight into where Jim FIRST learned about da' Blues. "I want to tell you 'bout Texas radio and the big beat. IT COMES OUT OF THE VIRGINIA SWAMPS, cool and slow with plenty of precision, with a back beat narrow and hard to master." Which swamp? I'll tell you. When Jim lived in Alexandria Va, he used to take the bus south down Route 1 to an area near Ft. Belvoir Army Base where there were several juke joints w black blues musicians hammering out hard core blues music. Jim loved to go there and listen to them. That particular area is very low and swampy. I know because I grew up 2 miles as the crow flies from there, on the other side of that very swamp. In the spring time when it's warm during the day and cool at night, when the sun goes down the frogs get extremely LOUD and the CRAZIEST fog you have ever seen sometimes rolls right up out of the swamp. I've seen it where it literally looked like a flat carpet of fog about a foot thick and 3 feet off the ground - like something out of a Dracula movie - just as the sun is going down. Can you imagine it? A 17 yr old Jim Morrison stepping off of a hot bus with the frogs singing and that cool air wafting up from the swamp mixing with the warm air from Route 1. As he walks towards the juke joint, the pounding rhythm of the blues mixes with the sound of the frogs and he's watching a thick blanket of fog rolling up out of the swamp. For someone like Jim, this would have overwhelmed his senses and been like stepping into another world of mystery and adventure. Yeah, I know he lived in Texas for a very brief time but at 11 yrs old, Texas isn't where he was FIRST schooled in the Blues friends. It was at those juke joints on Route 1 in Virginia. That my friends is the story behind what came "out of the Virginia swamps, cool and slow with plenty of precision, with a back beat narrow and hard to master".

I grew up not far from this house as a kid and had no idea until now. JM was probably one of the greatest lyrical artists, and creative people ever! Cool history of a legend! 🫡✌🏽🕊️

My parents went to school with both Jim and Cass.

Doesn't he have a little sister who might still be alive ??

Is this the same Jim Morristone, who was on an episode of The Flintstones?

Read the book WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE CANYON...It looks like the 60’s counterculture was a phenomenon created by the intelligence community along with the Vietnam War which Morrison’s father had a hand in getting started with the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” all designed your tear America apart. Oliver North’s Secretary Fawn Hall lived in Annandale next to Arlington. She married Morrison biographer Danny Sugarman. Fawn’s mother Wilma was Henry Kissinger’s Secretary and was the Director of the CIA’s secretary when 9/11 occurred. The big question is: Who was Morrison and all these other people working for? Read: THE SECRET ARCHITECTURE OF OUR NATIONS CAPITAL. An ancient occult group carried on today by Freemasonry.

The name of Admiral Morrison's ship was USS Bon Homme Richard, not USS Bonne Dick.

23:58 Who these people on the end of the mural. Great video liked it.

nice shave

Hey there. Watching the clip you made about Jim Morrison from the DOORS . Pretty disappointed fella. Did you bother to check your facts? You should have called this "Stories about the Doors" BTW: On the 50th anniversary of his death Jim Morrison was exonerated. Cleared on all charges. Give the man a little more respect. He certainly deserves it.

What is the music at 21:16?

😂 “hey Alexandria” not cool the chick got hit by a cymbal but that’s funny

What is an introvert extrovert? Isn't it one or the other?

Pretty sure he had a blood clot

Naval Intelligence.

Looking at pictures from when Jim Morrison had put on weight, his physical resemblance to Rush Limbaugh becomes clear. They were both natural entertainers. They were both avid readers and introvert-extroverts. Rush Limbaugh's backstory doesn't make sense. He looked nothing like his supposed brother. I don't know of any biography of Rush Limbaugh that goes into great detail about his childhood. One argument against this theory is that Morrison seemed to have a lighter build, but he intentionally restricted his diet so he would look emaciated. Another is the age difference, but Limbaugh looked old for his supposed age. It is pointed out that Limbaugh was already on the radio before Morrison died, but that is not conclusive evidence, since that time is not well documented, and Morrison could have played both "characters" before his supposed death. Some speculate that Morrison/Limbaugh had plastic surgery on his nose to change his appearance. Their voices don't seem too similar, but they were both in the same range, and voice-change surgery would have been possible.

“I think.” “I Believe.” “I’m not sure.”….Not a bad video but these phrases compromise the overall presentation.

His father wasn't impressed at all with Jim. He father was a Navy admiral. Jim was a Navy equivalent to a lieutenant and got kicked out for his drinking!

Jim's father started the Vietnam war.

Del Ray was ghetto until about 20 years ago when affluent hipsters decided to ruin it