BornFisher
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50 years ago. The guy with the typewriter and card table.
I met a guy up in Nevada a few years ago who said his brother collected old stamps from Baja. I know nothing about Baja postage stamps but it brought
back memories of San Blas (mainland) 50 years ago and Ensenada. Outside the post office, there would be someone with a card table and typewriter who
would type and send a letter for you. That was when illiteracy was common and such a service was in demand.
We would send letters (we didn`t use this service) and ask for a reply to be sent to the local post office, general delivery. Wait about 10 days, then
go to the post office and go through the general delivery pile to see if one was for you. Anyway just posing this for nostalgia and something for us
old guys to chew on!
And I think that guy`s brother has a cool hobby!
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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AKgringo
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I have fond memories of San Blas from several visits there over my lifetime. Our Family spent a week there in 1959 (I was 12 years old) and I
returned as a teen ager traveling with my brother and a good friend in 1965.
The coast highway did not exist then, but I got to drive it south from San Blas in 1986 when I took my own family back to visit some of the places my
parents had taken me when I was a kid.
Even in 1986, trying to make a phone call back to the states was an ordeal, y muy caro!
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Marc
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Remember postage stamps you had to brush on the glue?
Exercise regularly. Eat sensibly. Die anyway.
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Don Jorge
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Quote: Originally posted by BornFisher  | | We would send letters (we didn`t use this service) and ask for a reply to be sent to the local post office, general delivery. Wait about 10 days, then
go to the post office and go through the general delivery pile to see if one was for you. Anyway just posing this for nostalgia and something for us
old guys to chew on! |
Nice memories. Lista de correos and waiting in line to make a phone call from a booth next to a pulqueria with quail eggs and peanuts as tapas on the
bar.
Thanks for sharing the nostalgia. Baja can do that to some people. It does it to me. Must be time to go back.
�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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AKgringo
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On the "65" trip I mentioned, we were actually in Manzanillo by mid November of 64. Dave, Rocky and I sat down and collaborated on a letter that we
mailed back to our fellow party animals back north (one of them was actually born in the state of Colima).
They responded and we got it about two weeks later. Mexican postage at the time was 50 centavos, which was 4 cents US, the price of a stamp at the
time. They saw the stamp, and figured that they needed to put a 50 cent US stamp on the envelope!
And yes, we had to go to the post office and collect our general delivery letter.
[Edited on 2-29-2024 by AKgringo]
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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