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[*] posted on 11-14-2021 at 07:52 AM
The 1958 Shell Oil Baja Map (surprisingly detailed)


Thanks to map guru, 'geoffff' who stiched together my scans of this great little folding map I was given by Nomad 'Mexray'... click to open first link and again to enlarge and zoom in:

https://octopup.org/img/media/maps/baja/1958--Baja-Californi...

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[*] posted on 11-14-2021 at 08:24 AM


South of Bahia de Concepcion, what we now know as highway 1 took a whole different course through the Comondus.

Even what was then called highway 7 cut over the mountains through San Javier, rather than the route we follow now.




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[*] posted on 11-14-2021 at 09:10 AM


Yes, the main road to La Paz went via Comondu (I was a passenger on that road in 1966).

The road to Loreto was a dead end until the mid-1950s when they made the auto road to San Javier (and then on to Santo Domingo).

1959 Auto Club Map (notice the Hwy. #1 symbol between ComondĂș and Canipole):


1962 Howard Gulick Map:






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[*] posted on 11-15-2021 at 01:50 PM


Always fun/sad to look at old maps. Thanks!



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[*] posted on 11-15-2021 at 02:30 PM


Why sad?
Because it was before we could drive those roads?




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[*] posted on 11-16-2021 at 09:45 AM


If I were to dwell on this, I might be sad about the loss of adventure exploring places that with pavement become too easy. And developed. And signposted/fenced. Like I've seen on the La Paz to Cabo strip over the last 20 years, and Highway 5 in the next 10.



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