Hussong's now open... in Vegas ??

Didn't they address that problem a while back? Now they have slats on the floor so you don't step in the pools of urine.
Yep...They be uptown now.

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Originally posted by DENNIS Quote: Originally posted by DanO I went into the bathroom at the Ensenada Hussongs once. Worst mistake I have ever made. Still makes me queasy just thinking about it. Didn't they address that problem a while back? Now they have slats on the floor so you don't step in the pools of urine. Yep...They be uptown now.

It wasn't the pools of urine I was worried about.

My post from 2004...The original Maggies;

DIVING- HUSSONG- COLUMBIA- TREASURE-HISTORY



It no secret to most "vintage" divers that Hussong's was once a divers hang out. In the 1950 & the early 1960s it was a place that was "Muy Tranquillo." The music was Strauss Viennese walzes played by a group of locals in the corner.

***The Maggies were huge, served with a glass and the container they were mixed in (at least to the divers) -a few sips and the Cantina was transformed into another time and another place.
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Walter Hussong who was Percy's son was a very knowldgeable experienced pioneer diver and a darn good one. It was only narural that divers of the 1950s and early 1960s would check in on the way south to check on conditions or on the way back to the states to report on the diving.

Walter and Bill Hogan who owned the Underwater Sports shop in Long Beach, California, teamed up in 1956 to salvage what silver remained in the Columbia which was in 200 plus feet of water in or near the La Paz harbor. (To place this in perspective self contained (aka SCUBA) diving was only five (5) years old in the US, equipment was rudimentary crude and dangerous use and unheard of in most of Mexico)

They dove it every day for a month returning with nothing but the ships bell which Bill located 50 feet from the wreck. They "did not find the silver" = and "were poverty stricken."

HOWEVER, There is an epilog to this tale..

With in a year of returning Bill managed to purchase two large lots at the base of the Belmont pier in Long Beach and establish a huge dive operation including one of the first training pools. He then divorced his wife, concurrently losing the dive operation in the process to her. Next he established a "Divers Bar" called "Hogans" which he gave away more than he sold, In about 1960-1 (?) he packed up and moved to Costa Rica where he remarried, raised a daughter and lived the life of a gentleman famer for most of the remainder of his years, departing to to the big reef in the sky about thre years ago--But--- He "never found the treasure of the Columbia."

Walter on the other hand was living the good life in Ensenada. He was aways at the bar always avaliable to drop every thing if he recognized you to "talk diving." However, the good life caused his demise-- He opened Hussons on the mainland and was shot by an irrate husband
--but Walter also maintained -- "never found the treasure of the Columbia."

A damned shame

This means health and labor laws will be enforced, accurate sales figures reported and proper taxes paid.

All concepts foreign to Mexican business owners.

How do you feel about Disneyland?

I hope they recreate the exact same bathroom as in Ensenada. It's all part of the Hussongs experience!

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Originally posted by DENNIS Quote: Originally posted by Bajahowodd Sorry. But I don't like fake New York, fake Paris, or fake Hussongs. It's just me. How do you feel about Disneyland?

Me, too! Thirty something years ago. A cop took a "weapon" away from my husband (a Wyoming Deputy) and I snatched it out of the cop's hands and put it down the front on my shirt.... My mom almost choked and we all just turned and walked away... it made for a great story all these years...

(The "weapon" was a 5 in. plastic stick called a kuboton)

BTW, Don't know if anyone actually noticed the byline on the original article starting this thread. None other than the "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" guy.

How the mighty have fallen. Shilling for a fake Baja dive bar!

Jesse. That's Very Interesting

I agree with his opinion, except this quote:

"I didn't invent the taco," he remarked, "but I believe I improved it."

Anybody that has been to Yaqui, or el Frances knows thats light years away from true.

I Am Familiar With Tacos el Yaqui

Ahem, Just a Mild Observation

While i think Taco Bell tacos are horrible, Taco Bell style tacos from other places are not as bad to me. For example, every now and then while i am up in the US i do indulge in some Jack & The Box tacos:

Oh Jesse!

Nostalgia

As was noted in the Glen Bell article, he started selling tacos before there was a great deal of cross-border mingling. The talk about Jack-In-The-Box reminds me. Although they are currently mostly based in the Southwest, there was a time, perhaps a couple of bankruptcies and ownerships ago, when Jack was a national chain. I was in high school in the 60's, living on Long Island (NY), when I encountered my first "Mexican" food. It was a Jack-In-The-Box taco. The product was somewhat different then, in that the finished product was deep fried sealed-up and very greasy. But the filling was just about the same, lacking lettuce and cheese. In those days, there was absolutely no access to Mexican food outside of the Southwest. To think that a Jack-In-The-Box taco was the signature Mexican food for millions of people!



[Edited on 1-26-2010 by Bajahowodd]

When in my teens, my buddies and I would sit in the evenings on the sidewalk across the street from Hussong's passing a Tequila bottle, watching the old paddy wagon pull up to Hussong's every hour and clean out a few customers.

We didn't have X-Box in the 60's.