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The 1970-72 Cliff Cross Maps, now bigger!

David K - 7-18-2022 at 09:31 AM

Cliff Cross, authored a very popular Baja guidebook in 1970. He had an updated edition in 1972 and again in 1974. The 1973 edition was mostly a reprint of the 1972 edition.

Cliff's maps were great fun, because many were drawn with a bird's-eye-view style that anyone could understand.

I had preserved these 50+ maps earlier, but now, I have increased theri size, making reading them more enjoyable. After the last map are the book cover images.

Link: https://vivabaja.com/cliff-cross-maps/

Here are a few samples:












KurtG - 7-18-2022 at 10:55 AM

I have the '73 edition which I bought in '74. I enjoy looking at those maps today to remind me of how the places I have visited over the years appeared when I first saw them.

4x4abc - 7-19-2022 at 08:00 AM

the last image made me look for the main points of that Cabo San Lucas image
Hacienda Hotel is still there (the square)
airport is gone
electric plant is gone
government building is gone (a park now)
fish cannery is gone
the San Lucas Evangelista church is still there (the white marker)
now you also know where Cabo San Lucas got its name

cabo.jpg - 293kB

[Edited on 7-19-2022 by 4x4abc]

David K - 7-19-2022 at 08:34 AM

The Hacienda was on the beach, at the top of the dune hill, and on the opposite side of the dune hill was the mud flat where private planes landed. That was dredged out to make the marina. We went there in 1966 and again the next trip in '74.

In 2017, the abandoned fish cannery was still there... behind this fence:


Did they finally tear it all down?

AKgringo - 7-19-2022 at 08:36 AM

Harald, is the image you posted oriented with "North" at the top?

The random orientation of the Cross maps mess with my mind!

David K - 7-19-2022 at 09:21 AM

Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
Harald, is the image you posted oriented with "North" at the top?

The random orientation of the Cross maps mess with my mind!


West, mostly, on Harald's sat image. He tried to match the area shown on Cliff's 1970 map, which points to north, off to the lower right.

4x4abc - 7-19-2022 at 11:09 AM

Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
Harald, is the image you posted oriented with "North" at the top?

The random orientation of the Cross maps mess with my mind!


I aligned my image to the Cross image

4x4abc - 7-19-2022 at 11:20 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
The Hacienda was on the beach, at the top of the dune hill, and on the opposite side of the dune hill was the mud flat where private planes landed. That was dredged out to make the marina. We went there in 1966 and again the next trip in '74.

In 2017, the abandoned fish cannery was still there... behind this fence:


Did they finally tear it all down?


can you point out the cannery on Google?

David K - 7-19-2022 at 02:25 PM

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
The Hacienda was on the beach, at the top of the dune hill, and on the opposite side of the dune hill was the mud flat where private planes landed. That was dredged out to make the marina. We went there in 1966 and again the next trip in '74.

In 2017, the abandoned fish cannery was still there... behind this fence:


Did they finally tear it all down?


can you point out the cannery on Google?


22° 52.794'N, 109° 54.347'W
Looking west from the bay: