LaTijereta - 1-5-2006 at 10:41 PM
Can you name the "bar" and the "man" behind the bar?
In it's day, this was the great place to have a c-cktail or two, while talking fishing...
Those days in Loreto, I am afraid are gone
bajajudy - 1-6-2006 at 07:30 AM
That's not Vicente, is it?
capt. mike - 1-6-2006 at 07:41 AM
no....come on you old timers...its Johnny Tequila, famous pilot/bartender for Ed Tabor's old fishing ops the Flying Sportsman....no??
pompano...knows!!
Skeet/Loreto - 1-6-2006 at 08:24 AM
Sure does look like Vincinte to me.
Can anyone identify the Blond lady to the Right?? I can!
Phil C - 1-6-2006 at 01:48 PM
Looks like a young Vicente to me......Donde esta Rosa?
[Edited on 1-6-2006 by Phil C]
Could it be?
flyfishinPam - 1-6-2006 at 02:59 PM
That's Vincente tending the Pelicano Bar at what looks like the Mission hotel. I danced on that bar once and hit my head on the glass holder! Paco
was tending bar then
[Edited on 1-6-2006 by flyfishinPam]
Bob and Susan - 1-6-2006 at 04:20 PM
Pam
You must be REALLY short dancing on THAT bar
Skeet/Loreto - 1-6-2006 at 07:18 PM
Those were the Days!!
On Saturday Nights there was Dancing and a Buffet downstairs, Quail Dinners prepared by Artuero, lots of good times.
Does anybody know the Blond Lady?/ She and her Husband Built their own Sailboat, salied it to the Sea of Cortez and stayed aboard sailing around
Loreto. for about 5 years.
Decided to come ashore, bought a Tailer and 3 weeks later he died of a Heart Attack while driving, ran into the Sea Wall in his VW.
Skeet/Loreto
Skeet..I know you would..
LaTijereta - 1-6-2006 at 08:00 PM
A very great time with Vincente.
I closed that bar, more time tha I want to remember
Here is th Mission Hotel, and you can see why the Peliconos Bar. (upper building with the palapa roof) was the best bar ever to sit and tip a few
glasses
David K - 1-6-2006 at 08:28 PM
Had a couple great pena coladas there in June 1985... Watched the lightning sky show over the sea that night. Enjoyed it... Why did the hotel fail?
Old Mision Sign
bajajudy - 1-7-2006 at 07:33 AM
[Edited on 1-7-2006 by bajajudy]
Skeet/Loreto - 1-7-2006 at 12:17 PM
Chris: Remember Margaret dressing like a Teenage Queen, walking the sea Wall looking for a"Perfect Man" to take her dancing??
Some very good times and some very good People!!
Skeet/Loreto
Elivs' toilet!
flyfishinPam - 1-7-2006 at 01:21 PM
Francisco and I are good friends with one of the son's of the Doctor who owned the hotel Mission. When we were buildindgour house (actually we're
still building it) we put in a bathroom but didn't have much money at the time. Nene gave us a tiolet from the famous El Mision, sky blue, that we
used for about two and a half years. I used to tell people that Elvis used to use it when he stayed at the El Mision!
.....yeah I know, four feet or so, well I was doing the limbo
LaTijereta - 1-7-2006 at 02:04 PM
Nene has since moved on open his "newest" venture downtown > "The Office" bar. It seems to be slow going, but might catch on with all the activity
in Loreto these days..
I am not sure what Renato is up to these days.
"Skeet" .. 
Margareta finally hooked a guy from Sweden visting, and they were
marrried. I am going to have to see if I can up with a photo of her
The buffet you mentioned was always a good spred, and the last time I saw Arturo, was in Guerro Negro at a resturant he owed next to the El Morro.
Skeet/Loreto - 1-7-2006 at 04:05 PM
Chris: i think perhaps Margartia is married and living in Sant Cruz Calif.
I also talked to Artureo several times in GN/
I thought that Charlie Brown of San Francisco was still involved in the Mission??
The Blond lady is Virginia Oremus who I introduced to My Wife/s Father who moved a Trailer onto her Property behind Alfredo and Gails Motel. Shortly
thereafter Roy and Virginia O married and lived in Los Bano Calif, until Roys Death. She now resides in Florence Oregon in an Assisted Living Home.
She is Still a Beautiful Blond Lady at nearly 90 anos.
Garry - 1-7-2006 at 05:48 PM
I ran into Charlie Brown in Elk Grove, Ca, (near Sacto) about a year an a half ago, he looked like he was on his last legs. The last bartender there
while it was open was Loreto i think. I think he had a stroke or something, was not that old.
Loreto is Doing Fine...
LaTijereta - 1-7-2006 at 06:57 PM
Loreto was a bartender at one time at the Mission, but then had the stroke....Paco
was the last bartender I know of at the Mission.
Today, you can find Loreto outside his casa on calle Davis, rocking and waiving at everyone who drives by.
Here's a pic of the Loreto working the Saturday night buffet at the Mission...the "Other Lady" in the picture has played a big part in Loreto's ealy
days
bartender
tehag - 1-8-2006 at 08:08 PM
Saw Vicente today. Told him about the picture on the net. He said it had to be before 1990 as that's when he left La Misi?n. Looks older than that to
me. When was it taken? He was happy to hear of his enduring fame.
Renato was at Info Turistico last I saw him.
An LA partnership bought the hotel early last year and said they would reopen in August (2005). Doesn't look like they're going to make it. I see no
sign of work going on.
Vincente..
LaTijereta - 1-8-2006 at 08:21 PM
Tehag,
I gave Vincente and Rosa a framed copy of that picture last year.. They were both very pleased, was hoping he would hang it up in his new place, along
with some other images I gave him