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00:00:10:20\nMy name is Henry Diltz and I was born\n\n00:00:10:20 - 00:00:15:00\nSeptember 9th, 1938, in Kansas City.\n\n00:00:15:00 - 00:00:16:18\nSo I'm not a beach guy.\n\n00:00:16:18 - 00:00:19:00\nI'm a Laurel Canyon guy.\n\n00:00:19:00 - 00:00:20:13\nBut, Venice was always there.\n\n00:00:20:13 - 00:00:21:11\nYou know,\n\n00:00:21:11 - 00:00:25:03\nyou go out to the edge of the country\rand there's a sand and a beach,\n\n00:00:25:03 - 00:00:29:11\nand it was always the cool place to go,\ryou know, where all the cool people were.\n\n00:00:29:12 - 00:00:32:20\nI was a folk musician and I moved to L.A.\n\n00:00:32:20 - 00:00:38:12\nin about ‘63, moved right in to Laurel\rCanyon, where all the musicians lived.\n\n00:00:38:12 - 00:00:41:10\nOne day on the road,\rwe all picked up these little funky\n\n00:00:41:10 - 00:00:45:08\nsecondhand cameras and started\rsnapping pictures of each other.\n\n00:00:45:08 - 00:00:47:19\nAnd that was fun.\rAnd then when we had all the film\n\n00:00:47:19 - 00:00:50:16\ndeveloped, we had,\rthey turned out to be slides.\n\n00:00:50:16 - 00:00:52:15\nI didn't even know. \rSomebody handed me that.\n\n00:00:52:15 - 00:00:57:18\nHere's your film, you know, the first time\rand it was transparencies.\n\n00:00:57:18 - 00:01:00:18\nAnd I said, oh...  they’re slides. \rLet's have a slide show.\n\n00:01:00:18 - 00:01:04:21\nSo when I had all my my stoned \rhippie friends gathered\n\n00:01:04:21 - 00:01:09:00\nand we had a big slideshow\rof these pictures that they were in... \n\n00:01:09:00 - 00:01:10:21\nit blew my mind.\n\n00:01:10:21 - 00:01:14:17\nYou know, to see these scenes\reight feet wide glowing in the dark,\n\n00:01:14:17 - 00:01:17:17\nyou know, and it was like, I thought, \rwow, it's like, you're right there.\n\n00:01:17:17 - 00:01:18:16\nYou're right back.\n\n00:01:18:16 - 00:01:21:04\nAnd one by one, they all became famous.\n\n00:01:21:04 - 00:01:25:12\nI mean, Stephen Stills,\rMama Cass, David Crosby.\n\n00:01:25:17 - 00:01:27:21\nAnd then I met, um,\n\n00:01:27:21 - 00:01:29:17\n a guy who was a graphic artist\n\n00:01:29:17 - 00:01:32:23\nnamed Gary Burden,\rand he knew a lot of people as well.\n\n00:01:32:23 - 00:01:35:12\nWe started doing album covers together.\n\n00:01:35:12 - 00:01:38:05\nOne of the covers was\rCrosby, Stills, Nash,\n\n00:01:38:05 - 00:01:42:15\nsitting on their old couch by their house,\rtheir first album cover.\n\n00:01:42:15 - 00:01:45:15\nAnd soon after that The Doors called us\n\n00:01:45:15 - 00:01:49:01\nand said,\rwe want you to do our album cover.\n\n00:01:49:01 - 00:01:51:18\nSo we went to their office\rin West Hollywood,\n\n00:01:51:18 - 00:01:54:22\nGary and I, and Jim Morrison and Ray\n\n00:01:54:22 - 00:01:58:21\nManzarek were there,\rand their little, little office clubhouse.\n\n00:01:58:21 - 00:02:02:02\nWe said, okay, well, have you got a title?\n\n00:02:02:02 - 00:02:04:22\nAnd they said, no, we don't have a title.\n\n00:02:04:22 - 00:02:06:13\nWe said, okay, well...\n\n00:02:06:13 - 00:02:10:01\nDo you have an idea of something\ryou might want on your cover?\n\n00:02:10:01 - 00:02:14:02\nAnd they said, no,\ryou know, that's why we called you guys.\n\n00:02:14:02 - 00:02:15:10\nWe thought of coming to Venice.\n\n00:02:15:10 - 00:02:18:10\nI'm sure they said,\rlet's just do it in Venice, for sure.\n\n00:02:18:10 - 00:02:21:06\nI know you told the story\rabout Ray meeting Jim on the beach.\n\n00:02:21:06 - 00:02:21:20\nWill you tell that story?\n\n00:02:21:20 - 00:02:23:05\nOh, yeah.  Well, Ray,\n\n00:02:23:05 - 00:02:25:18\nright, Ray, Ray, Ray told us the story.\n\n00:02:25:18 - 00:02:27:12\nWe were filming a video about\n\n00:02:27:12 - 00:02:31:19\nalbum covers, and then he said, yeah,\rI was on the beach in Venice one day,\n\n00:02:31:19 - 00:02:36:06\njust kinda of wandering back,\rand I saw a figure walking down the beach,\n\n00:02:36:06 - 00:02:39:14\nyou know, and I said, well,\rthat looked like Jim Morrison\n\n00:02:39:14 - 00:02:42:23\nthat I just finished\rfilm class with a while ago.\n\n00:02:42:23 - 00:02:45:03\nAnd then he came walking down the beach.\n\n00:02:45:03 - 00:02:46:14\nYou know, with the jaw\n\n00:02:46:14 - 00:02:48:22\nlike Steve Canyon kind of, I don't know.\n\n00:02:48:22 - 00:02:50:22\nAnd uh,I said, hey, Jim.\n\n00:02:50:22 - 00:02:53:07\nHey, Jim. What have you been doing?\n\n00:02:53:07 - 00:02:57:20\nAnd he walked over\rand he said, I've been writing poetry.\n\n00:02:57:20 - 00:03:02:20\nAnd he started reciting, like,\rlet me take you to the moon or something.\n\n00:03:02:20 - 00:03:06:03\nAnd he said as he was speaking,\rmy fingers, I could feel them\n\n00:03:06:03 - 00:03:09:15\nfeeling the chords\rto go with it with his poem.\n\n00:03:09:15 - 00:03:14:21\nThat was the birth\rright on the sand at Venice Beach.\n\n00:03:14:21 - 00:03:15:19\nYeah,\n\n00:03:15:19 - 00:03:17:11\n\rI remember one of the first shots we took\n\n00:03:17:11 - 00:03:20:14\nwas not on the beach, but a block away.\n\n00:03:20:14 - 00:03:23:13\nThere was, uh, an empty lot...\n\n00:03:23:13 - 00:03:26:03\nAnd on the side of the building\rnext to the empty\n\n00:03:26:03 - 00:03:29:12\nlot was a big mural of Venice.\n\n00:03:29:12 - 00:03:32:01\nAnd what it actually was,\rwas a mirror image.\n\n00:03:32:01 - 00:03:34:15\nIf you looked at that mural\rand then turned around,\n\n00:03:34:15 - 00:03:35:21\nyou’d see the same picture\n\n00:03:35:21 - 00:03:38:01\nin reality,\rit was like it was a big mirror\n\n00:03:38:01 - 00:03:41:07\nshowing the view, looking down the beach.\n\n00:03:41:15 - 00:03:45:08\nAnd so they stood in front of that mural\rfor a while and goofed around.\n\n00:03:45:08 - 00:03:46:11\nAnd we took pictures.\n\n00:03:46:11 - 00:03:50:12\nAnd I remember there was a kind\rof a green clothing mannequin\n\n00:03:50:13 - 00:03:53:13\nthat was leaning\ragainst the wall around the corner.\n\n00:03:53:15 - 00:03:57:09\nAnd I think Ray or somebody got that\rand put that in the group, you know,\n\n00:03:57:09 - 00:04:00:21\nand then there were shots of them\rwith the green mannequin next to them.\n\n00:04:00:21 - 00:04:04:21\nAnd so I was clicking pictures\rand taking a little super eight movies,\n\n00:04:04:21 - 00:04:07:02\na little silent\rsuper eight once in a while.\n\n00:04:07:02 - 00:04:10:14\nAnd we were kind of walking\rtowards the Venice Pier,\n\n00:04:10:14 - 00:04:14:18\nwhich was just a great big, lovely pier\rthat, you know, went out into the ocean,\n\n00:04:14:18 - 00:04:19:18\nwhich then years later got washed away\rin a big storm and it's not there anymore.\n\n00:04:20:07 - 00:04:24:10\nAnd um, but we walked down to the pier\rand went under the pier,\n\n00:04:24:10 - 00:04:28:11\nand we took some shots under where\rthe pilings are holding the pier up.\n\n00:04:28:23 - 00:04:32:02\nAnd they're all kind of standing there\rbecause it was a sunny day.\n\n00:04:32:02 - 00:04:36:15\nBut in there it was nice open shade,\ropen light, it’s perfect, like a, like a,\n\n00:04:36:15 - 00:04:40:09\nlike a natural photo\n\n00:04:40:09 - 00:04:42:21\nstudio, you know.\n\n00:04:42:21 - 00:04:45:17\nAnd as they were standing there, kind\rof looking out at the water and stuff,\n\n00:04:45:17 - 00:04:48:19\na surfer came shooting the piles,\n\n00:04:48:19 - 00:04:51:21\nwhat they call surfing around\rthose big post in the water.\n\n00:04:51:21 - 00:04:56:07\nJohn Densmore, the drummer, was a surfer.\n\n00:04:56:07 - 00:04:59:22\nSo in the shot that I have of them,\rthey had been kind of standing there\n\n00:04:59:22 - 00:05:02:14\nlooking around and suddenly \rhe's going, oooo, like that...\n\n00:05:02:14 - 00:05:03:16\nWhoa, gnarly.\n\n00:05:03:16 - 00:05:05:05\nAnd he's leaning over and looking out.\n\n00:05:05:05 - 00:05:07:09\nAnd then they all look at the surfer,\n\n00:05:07:09 - 00:05:08:15\nand the surfer comes surfing\n\n00:05:08:15 - 00:05:11:11\n surfing up right next to me\rand they have a little conversation.\n\n00:05:11:11 - 00:05:15:17\nI think we had a picture of him\rlift his board, and you know, and The Doors.\n\n00:05:15:17 - 00:05:19:23\nAnd I remember at one point\rJim had a, some kind of a pint of, \n\n00:05:19:23 - 00:05:23:22\nof some kind of liquor,\rprobably Ripple, you know, that was all he\n\n00:05:23:22 - 00:05:27:11\nwould buy for a \rcouple of bucks, in a paper bag.\n\n00:05:27:11 - 00:05:31:05\nAnd I remember I was taking \ra little super eight movie of him\n\n00:05:31:05 - 00:05:35:07\nand he looked there \rand he picked the thing up, took a swig\n\n00:05:35:07 - 00:05:37:22\nkind of went, like that,\rand kinda looked away.\n\n00:05:37:22 - 00:05:41:19\nI thought, wow, that is like,\rsuch a heroic thing.\n\n00:05:41:19 - 00:05:44:13\nYou know, Jim was kind of a heroic guy.\n\n00:05:44:13 - 00:05:48:19\nAnd he was also a very quiet guy.\n\n00:05:48:19 - 00:05:51:07\nHe was a poet. He was an observer.\n\n00:05:51:07 - 00:05:53:21\nThe word I always used, people say,\rwhat was Jim really like?\n\n00:05:53:21 - 00:05:57:05\nAnd I’d say, he was bemused.\n\n00:05:57:05 - 00:06:00:20\nBemused means kind of,\ryou know, inner amusement, kind of\n\n00:06:00:20 - 00:06:05:04\nI mean, alert, looking around,\rkind of nodding, checking it all out,\n\n00:06:05:04 - 00:06:06:18\nbut not demonstrative.\n\n00:06:06:18 - 00:06:10:07\nI mean, I mean, that whole day\ron the beach, I doubt\n\n00:06:10:07 - 00:06:15:00\nif I had a conversation with Jim at all.\rHe was more laid back, observing.\n\n00:06:15:00 - 00:06:17:23\nYou can almost feel the poems\rgoing on in his head.\n\n00:06:17:23 - 00:06:20:07\nYou know, I really liked that about him.\n\n00:06:20:07 - 00:06:24:05\nHe was quiet and observant, you know, and\n\n00:06:24:05 - 00:06:27:13\nI'm kinda that way myself, you know. \n\n00:06:27:13 - 00:06:29:05\nPlenty with the other guys.\n\n00:06:29:05 - 00:06:33:10\nI mean, Ray was like a college professor,\ryou know, who were always talking\n\n00:06:33:10 - 00:06:34:07\nand commenting.\n\n00:06:34:07 - 00:06:37:08\nAnd, and that's what the conversation was.\n\n00:06:37:08 - 00:06:40:18\nJim was just kind of quiet,\rjust kind of hanging out, coming along.\n\n00:06:40:18 - 00:06:45:23\nYou know, someone had painted a big\rin big black letters, P-O-T\n\n00:06:45:23 - 00:06:51:04\non the cement of the bridge,\rgoing out on the side of the bridge, pot.\n\n00:06:51:04 - 00:06:53:08\nAnd so we had to go over there\rand take photos.\n\n00:06:53:08 - 00:06:56:10\nThey kind of sat on the sand,\rand stood around it, you know.\n\n00:06:56:10 - 00:06:58:23\nI think someone got up on the bridge\rand looked down\n\n00:06:58:23 - 00:07:02:06\nand we took a few shots of the  pot,\ryou know, because,\n\n00:07:02:06 - 00:07:07:13\nbecause pot or God's herb,\ras I call it, was something that\n\n00:07:07:13 - 00:07:09:09\nall musicians smoke.\n\n00:07:09:09 - 00:07:10:04\nThat's that.\n\n00:07:10:04 - 00:07:15:03\nYou know, I always say, how do you think\rall that music, you know, happens?\n\n00:07:15:03 - 00:07:17:23\nI mean, literally every single,\n\n00:07:17:23 - 00:07:23:04\nthis was the peace and love brotherhood,\rhippie, right generation kind of.\n\n00:07:23:04 - 00:07:26:04\nAnd, and, and everybody\rwould have a little toke of God's herb\n\n00:07:26:04 - 00:07:29:17\nbecause it made you relax, \rit made you feel better.\n\n00:07:29:17 - 00:07:32:12\nIt made you want to \rpick up your guitar and play.\n\n00:07:32:12 - 00:07:35:04\nYou know, \rwhen the day was over, I remember\n\n00:07:35:04 - 00:07:39:04\nJim and Ray\rhad a favorite Mexican restaurant\n\n00:07:39:04 - 00:07:44:07\nthat was right there on the little cement\rwalkway, the little L-shaped counter,\n\n00:07:44:08 - 00:07:47:15\nand we kind of fill the whole counter up\rwith the four of them.\n\n00:07:47:15 - 00:07:53:04\nAnd Gary and I, six people, and we had\rsome lovely burritos there for dinner.\n\n00:07:53:04 - 00:07:54:19\nAnd I took pictures of that.\n\n00:07:54:19 - 00:07:56:06\nYou know, we never had a plan.\n\n00:07:56:06 - 00:07:57:06\nIt was always just,\n\n00:07:57:06 - 00:08:01:03\ncome on, we're going to hang out\rand take a walk and see what happens.\n\n00:08:01:03 - 00:08:06:10\nYou know, God's waves and God’s\rsand and God's sunshine.\n\n00:08:06:10 - 00:08:08:01\nAnd that's always nice to see.\n\n00:08:08:01 - 00:08:11:20\nI remember the day fondly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129344/file/242318#t=0.0,501.07733"}]}]}]}