Another Jim Morrison Sighting – in 1963
- by Managing Editor
JIM MORRISON DIED 50 YEARS AGO, ON JULY 3, 1971. HIS PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS LIVED IN CORONADO AND OTHER PLACES IN THE SAN DIEGO AREA. IN THE EARLY 1960s JIM VISITED AND STAYED WITH HIS PARENTS IN CORONADO FOR A SHORT WHILE. REMEMBRANCE BY DR. JERRY OLIVAS.
I love to tell this story. It normally gets a lot of traction. I always start out by saying, “I knew Jim Morrison personally.” Then I say, “but it wasn’t the Jim Morrison that everyone else knew.”
I am certain I did know Jim Morrison, but when I first met him in Coronado, California, I only knew him as Jim. It was easy to remember that name because that was one of my brother’s names. But there was another reason why I remember Jim Morrison, he could buy booze.
My encounters with Jim Morrison occurred in the spring and summer of 1963 and then later, only one time, in the summer of 1966 at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles.
