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Erle Stanley Gardner Museum Display

David K - 11-6-2005 at 10:48 AM

In Temecula, here is a sample of some of what is on display and 5 Baja Nomads who went there Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005...

David K - 11-6-2005 at 10:49 AM

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#6 (top right is a helicopter at Mision Santa Maria)

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#9 (A great shot of Central Baja vegetation incl. blue palm, cirio, cardon, ...)

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#13 (Erle was a short man, but tall on adventure!)

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#14 Here's Baja Angel and Neal Johns (the aridologist)...

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#15 Neal took a photo of Elizabeth and I...

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#16 An El Camino Real bell from the days when these were placed along the mission trail through Alta California (Hwy. 101, when I was a kid)

David K - 11-6-2005 at 11:11 AM

#17 Lunch time in Old Town Temecula... The Squarecircle telling a story to Baja Angel, sitting across from Neal and Marian Johns...

The photos I just posted can not replace actually going to the Gardner Baja exhibit, it will be there for a while, and the museum will always have a small section of Gardner memorbelia, year round.

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Nice Pics

academicanarchist - 11-6-2005 at 02:53 PM

David. Nice shots. But it looks like somebody needs to lay off of the tamales.

David K - 11-6-2005 at 04:36 PM

Angel and I shared a shrimp c-cktail (see it on table) and a salad.... no tamales!:biggrin:

I am working on it... but the food in Mexico is sooo good!

mcgyver - 11-6-2005 at 04:43 PM

David, Great report and photos! Wish I could have made it. You told me the guy who built the grasshoppers lived in Yuma but I was unable to locate him, Jack ?????
Max

J.W. Black

David K - 11-6-2005 at 04:56 PM

J.W. Black (aka 'Black Jack') was working on a house in Yuma, someone once told me... but his home is in Paradise, Northern California.

Pompano here on Nomad is a friend of his and was able to hook me up with J.W. via phone to see if he had any memory of the ruins they found south of L.A. Bay in '66... J.W did have a home at El Coyote, Bahia Concepcion since the Gardner years...

I had a nice conversation with the inventor of those off road machines, but his voice did sound like someone quite advanced in years...



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mcgyver - 11-6-2005 at 05:11 PM

David, Thats great that you got to talk to him!! You knew and have talked to all of them except the old master himself and thats something!! As you know I researched Desert Magazine and coresponded with Choral Pepper years ago about the black gold nuggett storys and I think its great that she gave you her pictures, I have her obituary in my Baja scrapbook. There are some people in Baja who could write books about their times that have not. Did you ever hear of Chuck Sistos who lived in Puertocitos for years??
Max

David K - 11-7-2005 at 09:25 AM

No, I have not...

By the way, there still are lots of Pepper papers that I have still to go over.

So much Baja, so little time... even here in my home!

bAJA IN TEMECULA?

BAJACAT - 12-9-2005 at 12:00 AM

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Originally posted by David K
In Temecula, here is a sample of some of what is on display and 5 Baja Nomads who went there Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005...


Nomads I need directions to get to this place, and how long is going to have all this great photos from Baja, and hours of business if possible , thanks BajaCat:?:

Sam Hicks Park in Temecula

John M - 12-9-2005 at 05:48 AM

Take the Rancho California Road exit from the I-15.


Doesn't matter if your coming from the north or south. Then go west of the I-15 to Front Street, south on Front Street. Less than a mile off the freeway. Web-site below has a link to directions.

On Saturday, November 5, the Temecula Valley Museum will open a new exhibit, ?Erle Stanley Gardner: The Baja Adventure.?

The new exhibit will be on display in the museum?s second floor gallery from November 5 until January 8.

http://www.cityoftemecula.org/cityhall/commserv/Museum/

Temecula museum

BAJACAT - 12-9-2005 at 10:56 PM

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Thanks John M, I don't have plans this sunday so I will be heading to temecula to check it out, I guess D K is right the Baja virus got me good.
can help my self. thanks again..