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rzitren: A good recap! In 1980-82, I worked at an irrigation store in La Mesa that specialized in drip irrigation supplies. Someone came in and wanted
to set up a drip system for some trees (palms?) at a "new resort" in Baja: Punta San Francisquito.
He was surprised that I knew about it!
Actually, the resort was up and running in the early 1970s. It is detailed in the 1974 guide Baja Traveler published by Airguide Publications
(primarily for pilots). In Arnold Senterfitt's Airports of Baja 1969 edition, the resort was announced as being under construction and the 1974
edition has it completed. I can post the pages if interested.
Bajazly: A hate paved roads in Baja! It is a prediction I make and not a desire!
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Quote: Originally posted by rzitren  | | Here is the history of the resort and cabanas as I know it. First The, the resort is on Bahia Santa Theresa. The Point is Punta San Francisqito and
the bay where Beto is located is Puerto San Francisquito. The Property for the resort was originally bought by a two men,one from Tijuana and a silent
partner from Tecoman in Colima. The cabanas and runways were developed by a group from northern California. They and a couple of men from southern
California ran the resort until the early eighties. Then the man from Tijuana took it back over and his son Genaro ran it for awhile. After a couple
of years, Genaro went back to Tijuana and the place was abandoned for a few years and the one of the other sons took over. He placed Javier and Chary
there and they got everything up and running.After quite a few years, Genero came back to run the resort but fell sick with cancer and had to return
to Tijuana where he died. Juan and Rosa were friends and came in to run the place. In around 2006, the family in Tijuana decided to sell the property
and it was purchased by a group from Mexico City that we believe is part of the Carlos Slim group. That is the partial history as I know it as we were
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I used to go there in the day and flew in on a friends 205. Wasn't a caretaker there electrocuted and passed away? I seem to remeber something about
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... Electrocuted at the bar which is no longer there...
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WOW, quit the history. I hope someone will fix it back up without making it a resort. The first time I was there around 2000?, there was an older
couple in a Suzuki Samurai that had broken almost all of the leaf springs on the drive down from BOLA! I remember they were sitting in front of one of
the shacks with a big smile and a watermelon, they said it was about day five of the repairs but they were in no hurry.
The guys were using springs off of boat trailer and a truck, cutting them down and making new ends.. That place is magical, I've seen dolphins
pods swim by only a few feet off shore.
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The bar at Punta San Francisquito
Here I am with Genaro about 30 years ago. It was mostly a self-serve bar and you put a check by your name every time you took a beer out of the
cooler.
You can see on the back wall all the business cards of everyone who came though PSF back in those days.
I you wanted lobster for dinner Genaro would row his boat out past the surf and dive off grabbing one off the bottom. Dinner was $8 for lobster rice
and beans.
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The really Good Old Days!
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Stickers... Thanks for the photo!....
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About 15 years ago was the first time we stopped in. Back then we use to do only boating. We came down from BoLA and anchored behind Beto's place
for the night.
Skipped across the mid-drift islands into Kino bay the next morning, and then went down the Sonora coast to San Carlos. Think it was the very first
trip report I posted on the board.
We rode into San Francisquito with our bikes about 2 years ago. Beto's place is, let's just say, "very interesting" and "spooky." I have tons of
pics of it. One of my guys was begging to leave in the middle of the night.
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| Quote: Originally posted by JZ | About 15 years ago was the first time we stopped in. Back then we use to do only boating. We came down from BoLA and anchored behind Beto's place
for the night.
Skipped across the mid-drift islands into Kino bay the next morning, and then went down the Sonora coast to San Carlos. Think it was the very first
trip report I posted on the board.
We rode into San Francisquito with our bikes about 2 years ago. Beto's place is, let's just say, "very interesting" and "spooky." I have tons of
pics of it. One of my guys was begging to leave in the middle of the night.
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What kind of interesting, spooky are we talking? Tweaker meth lab, zombie apocalypses kind of thing, or haunted ghost kind of scary?
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Around 1990 or so,a mexican worker named Pericles was trying to fix the ice machine with Genaro. The floor was covered with water and when he reached
in to see if the compressor was working he was electrocuted. We tried to revive him with no luck. I flew Genaro out the next morning to alert the
authorities.
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A few years ago, my wife, daughter and I camped on the beach in front of the pier. We went up to the house first and spoke with the guy that owns it.
Super nice guy. Great spot for a night and the hot showers were perfect. Nothing spooky. Look forward to camping there again soon.
As for the resort on the other side- it has obviously seen better days but is still a really nice beach to hang out on. Big house just north of the
resort was cool to look around in but sad to see how nice it once was and how dilapidated it has become. Same thing for the couple of beach houses on
the south side of the resort.
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My dad and I were going to fly into San Francisquito back in 1974, but the trip never came together so we flew into BDLA and stayed at Papa Diaz'
place. The road from Hwy 1 was not completed at the time, and Hwy 1 had just opened all the way IIRC. I always wondered what SFQ would have been
like to see back then.
John
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Anyone know who built the vacation homes and what happened to the owners?
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Two 1974 book pages:
BAJA TRAVELER:
AIRPORTS of BAJA CALIFORNIA:
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1987 & 1998 Airport Guides
1987 AIRPORTS of BAJA CALIFORNIA:
1998: AIR BAJA!
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we made a number of trips out there in the 80's at that time the camp host was a fellow named Gallo, very nice man. the thing that struck us was
the poor fishing!
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Historical reports are interesting. Nowadays except for Beto's place the rest is a dump and not worth the drive to verify.
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Myself and and a friend built the the white house with the red tile roof in 1983. We had a contractor, Roberto Curiel, out of Tijuana help us. He had
been convinced by the owners of the property that if he built a model home he would have a number of Americans want houses. There were plans for 500
homes with a golf course and taxi ways from the runways to the homes. Obviously that never happened.
The old Rock house was built by the people that built the cabanas and was rented on and off for years.
The house at the far south end of the beach is actually not part of the resort but was built by a man out of Jamul, CA who sold generators and other
survival products.
The house on the hill behind it was built for one of the property owners right after the cabanas were built.
The house on the hill to the north was built for the property owner, who was Genaro's father, from Tijuana right after ours was built, around 1984
and was used on and off for years by him and his family and friends.
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Thanks rzitren, nice to know how it happened! I wonder if it was the Jamul person I met at the La Mesa irrigation store in the early 1980s? He didn't
specify it was for the resort itself, just said he wanted to water trees/ landscape at Punta San Francisquito.
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