My Photos of the Dakota...

On the anniversary of John Lennon's murder I browsed back on photos I had made of the Dakota Apartment building where he lived on our visit to New York in 2016. I won't forget the night in 1980 when an old high school friend, Grady, called me from Houston on a land line and told me about the incident. I had not even known Grady was a big Beatles fan. That's how people were effected.  

Now with violence and threats practically everywhere do you call anyone when something happens? I believe Lennon, a great musician was a flawed man. Maybe not someone you would enjoy visiting your home but if you verbalize bun violence or make fun of victims of gun violence you are as bad as the killers themselves.   

Lennon was gunned downed on the street outside this entrance.  

The Dakota is right outside Central Park 

 

An old hippie thinking about what could be. 

Cathy photo'd with one of Lennon's guitars at the MET.