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SFandH
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Hussong's
That's my VW in front..........Not really, but could have been. (((hic)))
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Alan
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So many fun times!
In Memory of E-57
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JZ
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What year? 1976?
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SFandH
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Around there i guess. Brewskis and an afternoon/evening of fun after a session at K-38.
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Don Pisto
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It would still be called Meiggs if he didn't go after his wife with an axe...wonder what the heck she did!
there's only two things in life but I forget what they are........
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Don Jorge
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Sounds right.
�And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry
years. It was always that way.�― John Steinbeck
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"Nature bats last." Doug "Hayduke" Peac-ck
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pappy
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First time ther 1973. What an afternoon/ night! Many visits post surf in 80’s. Good times.last visit was 89 ...such an epic place.
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AKgringo
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And they probably never asked for those pesky ID things!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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BajaTed
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A Hussong ritual when a friend got to drunk and went to the floor was to kick sawdust on them and then pour a beer over them.
Es Todo Bueno
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sancho
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1972 ish for me. Surfing San Miguel and a place just so. of there
called 3 m's. with my 68' vw panal The Bar Miramar in SF, has been my go to for yrs
[Edited on 7-28-2023 by sancho]
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SFandH
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With a counter-clockwise clock. THE spot! Is it still there?
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Barry A.
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My San Diego area friends and I visited Hussong's numerous times in the late '50's and early '60's. Good times always had by all. It was (is?) a
unique place, that is for sure. I have not returned in 60 years. LOL
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SFandH
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Quote: Originally posted by Barry A.  | My San Diego area friends and I visited Hussong's numerous times in the late '50's and early '60's. Good times always had by all. It was (is?) a
unique place, that is for sure. I have not returned in 60 years. LOL
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Is this your car in front?
[Edited on 7-28-2023 by SFandH]
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Don Pisto
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actually its gone out of business and reopened as a tackle store!
anyone from ventura here remember the exact replica that was "Hussings Cantina" in ventura harbor? man that was a rompin stompin joint in the day.
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msteve1014
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No, but i know that place. I live down the street.
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BornFisher
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Oh yeah, Hussongs! And worth mentioning are the Long Bar and Chicago Club in TJ!
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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Don Jorge
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Miramar is still there.
So is 3Ms although you cannot park your car unattended while surfing there. But the water is cleaner than it was back then, not clean just cleaner
now than then.
We had a trailer at Pinky's California Hotel and rented a house just south of there in 73 and 74. Pinky was a junior, son of tuna boat tycoon of
Ensenada. Hussongs back then was the office of the juniors, names like Rodriguesz, Cortes, Borques, Melaro, Arumbula, Villa and many more made
Hussongs there place of business and their business was gringas. Oh what a wild time that was.
If we surfed and camped at K38 we partied at Rauls and quite often surfboards and wetsuits would disappear in the dark hours. Sometimes the boards
reappeared in the lineup on a later date being used by a local learning to surf.
Camping anywhere on the coast in the 70s be it Baja Malibu, Calafia, 38, 42, Cantamar, Campo Lopez aka K55, San Miguel, Cuatros, Colonet, etc you knew
the federales were going to drop by and search your campsite. It was part of the game and usually we ended up sharing Carta Blacas and gringo
burritos with them over a a campfire, learning to speak Spanish, them English, sort of.
More than once the fire hoses came out on Ruiz during Carnival or other parade events. A ringside seat in the doorway of Hussongs was a great
vantage point to watch the festivities, the paddy wagon rolling up and unlucky, stupid or perhaps both, many gringos were carted away.
Rounding up gringos for public urination was another proven business model and we never bailed friends out pf jail before the morning surf session.
We always waited until after the onshore winds picked up and then we would we drive into Ensenada, get some fish taocs on Juarez, the place next to
the Corona paint store and full of tacos and sugar sodas we would head over and bail out our amigos.
Lots of memories of that place and lots of drawings by Reyes too. Ah the fairy dust of youth was on us back then and the Mexican people everywhere
from Nayarit to Baja treated us much fairer and much nicer than we deserved.
It was a different era back then. An era I think of as Baja before Mexico discovered it was theirs.
Somewhere in a box i have those memories packed away. Not sure they need to be awakened. 
�And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry
years. It was always that way.�― John Steinbeck
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George E.P. Box
"Nature bats last." Doug "Hayduke" Peac-ck
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Barry A.
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| Quote: Originally posted by SFandH | | Quote: Originally posted by Barry A. | My San Diego area friends and I visited Hussong's numerous times in the late '50's and early '60's. Good times always had by all. It was (is?) a
unique place, that is for sure. I have not returned in 60 years. LOL
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Is this your car in front?
[Edited on 7-28-2023 by SFandH] |
Nope. (-: We had an old
VW bus, off-white in color, and there was never any room in front for us to park.
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larryC
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What would still be called "Meiggs" if he didn't go after his wife with an axe?
Off grid, 12-190 watt evergreen solar panels on solar trackers, 2-3648 stacked Outback inverters, 610ah LiFePo4 48v battery bank, FM 60 and MX60
Outback charge controllers, X-240 Outback transformer for 240v from inverters, 6500 watt Kubota diesel generator.
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Don Pisto
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Meiggs was the 1st bar in ensenada, licence #001. he broke his leg in some kind of accident and asked john hussong to watch the place while he chased
down his wife who fled to america after he came after her with an axe, neither returned. john became the new owner.....or something like that.
or maybe it was john that broke his leg, I know there's a broken leg and an axe in the story!
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