Bud
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Early photo's from Gulick.
These are very cool from the 50's and 60's. My first visit was in 1954 so it brings back a few memories for me.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/baja/gulick/
Bud
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bajalou
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Great stuff Bud - thanks for the link
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David K
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Thanks Bud, Juan del Rio has been posting photos from the Gulick site here on Nomad... It was great to see and I put a link to it on my Notebook
site... Of interest there are also historic photo collections from Harry Crosby and Marquis McDonald of Baja from 1946 on... at that web site on other
pages.
Here is Mision Santa Maria, over 40 years ago...
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Neal Johns
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Thanks, Bud
Anyone that does not have a copy of their old Guidebook (Lower California Guidebook by Gerhard and Gulick) should get one. Out of print, but readly
available.
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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David K
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For sure!
The five editions are
I) 1956
II) 1958
III) 1962
Reprinted in 1964
IV) 1967
Reprinted in 1970
In 1975 Walt Wheelock revised the guidebook for the new highway and other changes and the name was changed to: Baja California Guidebook.
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surfer jim
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thank's BUD....what an adventure those early days must have been.....
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Bud
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It was different from the way it is now that's for sure. Pavement ended at 181 K and it was a big deal getting to the Pacific for us. We went every
year for two weeks. I got to San Felipe a couple of times also. Nothing there except a drug store and groceries combo back then. I used to take a big
chunk of Lava rock out to the water line early in the morning and lay down on the sand. Waiting for the tide to take me all the way back to camp. It
sure was a long ways.
Took forever to get anywhere back then. But it was wide open country and anything went. Fishing was the best on both coasts. You could snag a Tutwava
back then in the gulf. They sure were some ugly critters too!  
Bud
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