Lynn Krieger

Lynn Ann Veres Krieger was raised in Fords, New Jersey, the one of eight children. Her mother was a very Catholic woman, so aged 16, Lynn moved to New York City with a gay hairdresser named Kenny. She got a job as a go-go dancer first at the Wagon Wheel, and then at the Peppermint Lounge. She later moved into a gargoyle-adorned building with neighbors like a fashion designer named Lennie Barin, who gave her dresses he had made so she could show off his creations around town,and he encouraged her to get into modeling, but she was too short. Her modeling career never took off, but she supported herself as a hatcheck girl at a Mafia-owned Spanish restaurant. By the time she was eighteen, Lynn had friends at clubs all over the city, so she had no trouble to get at the Ondine Discotheque when The Doors made they New York Debut on November 25, 1966. She met Jim Morrison that night. She invited him back to her building to check out the wall mural she had painted with her roommate. That night, Jim told her all about Los Angeles, so she and her friends drove cross-country to see he wasn't lying about that. But he hadn't been too forthcoming about his relationship status. One day during her visit, she was hanging out at Jim's house on Rothdell Trail in Laurel Canyon when Jim's longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson walked in and shrieked, "Jim! Who's that?" Lynn asked. "Oh, this is Pam, my girlfriend." Jim had failed to mention Pam before then. Lynn ran out of the house and Jim chased after her. Somehow, Jim convinced Lynn to keep hanging out with him. She went back to New York and they met up whenever the Doors traveled east, and she saw him whenever she took trips out to L.A. with her friends. Lynn was convinced that she could maybe solidify things with Jim if she lived a little closer to him, so she finally made the move to Laurel Canyon in LA, but Jim tested Lynn's limits just as he did with everyone else. At first it was easy for Lynn to cope with Jim's behavior because she had been surrounded by one type of craziness or another her whole life. But he kept pushing. Lynn's relationship with Jim officially ended for good when she moved to a house at Horse Shoe Canyon with a new group of friends. One night, one of Lynn's housemates took Jim to her bedroom... and Lynn left. By early 1968 both Lynn and Jim's band-mate Robby Krieger were single. And when he knew she was attending at a mutual friend's house party one night, he had to go. He then offered to ride Lynn and a friend to their home at Horse Shoe Canyon with his car. Lynn started to bring her friends over to his house on Topanga Beach to hang out, but finally one night they both were left alone and their romance began. They grew very close very quickly. They were in the ocean together many times and she joined The Doors in their first trip to Hawaii. Robby was a bit jealous that Lynn and Jim were friends and hanging together all the time, but Jim was with Pam. About a year later, Lynn and Robby moved together into a house in Benedict Canyon. One night Jim was there, and when he and Lynn when on their own in the kitchen, he asked her to start things up again, but she made him clear that her time with him had ended forever. Later that night, Jim complimented Robby for his choice of partner and never went after Lynn again. On December 26, 1970 Robbie and Lynn got married, and on September 5, 1973 they had their only child, a son named Waylon.