BajaNomad - Where were you in 1975?

Where were you in 1975?

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EnsenadaDr - 10-18-2011 at 04:38 PM

Was Baja a part of your life in 1975?? I was living in Connecticut at the time...and attending college in the late 70's,,,there was a place called Texas Tacos, and I ate there every night after my class at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT...this was my first introduction to Tex Mex food and Mexico proper....

DENNIS - 10-18-2011 at 04:42 PM

I was a bartender in San Juan Capistrano. Opened the Capistrano Depot, Cinco De Mayo, 1975.

My parents had me hooked...

Ken Cooke - 10-18-2011 at 04:44 PM

Beginning with my infancy in the late '60s, I was pushed across the border in a baby stroller. By 1975, I was able to run up and down the beaches of Rosarito with my two Brothers, Dog, while my Father toiled away at his MA and Mom held down the tent trailer. Everything is documented in the family albums.

1975

tehag - 10-18-2011 at 04:45 PM

I was renting a house a block from the Hotel California in Todos Santos.

Baja Was Not Part of My Life in 1975

Gypsy Jan - 10-18-2011 at 04:59 PM

I was living in Ventura county yon the beach at Hollywood by the Sea (That's the real name.) and was the first woman hired as an Outside Advertising Sales Executive for the Oxnard Press-Courier.

Baja was earlier with my family and then came back into my life later.

[Edited on 10-19-2011 by Gypsy Jan]

Skeet/Loreto - 10-18-2011 at 05:04 PM

I was living in Loreto {Part Time) with Tio Don O'Neil building a fence around the Property to be known as Rancho Sonrisa working in Fresno Calif as a Snap-On Tool Dealer for Los Banos, Dos Palos, and Chowcholla Calif.

O.G. - 10-18-2011 at 05:08 PM

Ahhh... 1975...

I was also bartending to pay the rent while attending U.C.Berkeley. You know, I also sailed a styrafoam sailboat with "KOOL" on the lateen sail (a marketing gimmic from Kool cigarettes) in the Bay. That is about the only connection to BAJA... .

MMc - 10-18-2011 at 05:15 PM

Spent plenty of weekends in BN and a week at a major surf spot in BCS. That fall hitchhiked to Main and back. Spent New Years at another major surf spot just north of the 28th. Thanks for taking me back, GOOD TIMES.
MMc

Scuba Diving Punta Banda

estebanis - 10-18-2011 at 05:30 PM

There was a campground on the bluff around half way out the point. Had some great dives there with lot's of Moray eels...
Had my Sperry Topsiders shined by one of those guys on the steet downtown. Looked down and they had gone from the natural light color to Huarache Orange. My buddies tore me up laughing and on the way home it continued on the CB radio. They really laughed when they saw them on the road driving ahead of them on the way home after I tossed 'em out the window... :lol:

Esteban

Cypress - 10-18-2011 at 05:36 PM

Was teaching down south and fishing the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Good fishing, bad job.

BajaBlanca - 10-18-2011 at 05:42 PM

first year of college at UCSD

first trip to TJ and a couple trips to Rosarito.

in 1987, we took a triip to San Felipe.

over the next years - trips to Tj for dentist, Ensenada for lunches

then in 2006, we moved to La Bocana....our paradise. Loving life since !!

bajario - 10-18-2011 at 05:52 PM

I believe I was living in Barnwell South Carolina. Two years old. Many moons and sunrises from Baja.

Kalypso - 10-18-2011 at 06:00 PM

I was a junior at San Diego State, but being a native San Diegan I made several (though not routine) trips SOB growing up. Mostly we went to Ensenada because one of my dad's clients had a fishing boat and would dock there. We usually drove down and met him.

In 1980, or maybe it was' 81, I started dating a guy that was part owner of a funky beach house in Cantamar. When we broke up I missed the house but not him and made a few more trips SOB but then started traveling to the mainland. But now I'm back and Baja feels like a look lost friend

surfer jim - 10-18-2011 at 06:11 PM

I was hitting the beaches around Rosarito....K-39, K-42, Rauls, K-55 (a left!) 3 mmm's....and hearing stories of far off more exotic spots.....K-181 and Cuatro Casas.

Osprey - 10-18-2011 at 06:32 PM

My third or fourth wife and I were catching waaay too many dorado in Loreto, Mulege, Los Barriles. I think I died for a short time in 75 from Gusano Rojo and lovemakeing.

I have no real solid evidence of the event but a definite "Feeling".

akbear - 10-18-2011 at 06:33 PM

1975 was the 1st year working on the Trans Alaska Pipeline in Valdez. Also the 1st year of 32yrs of being a Boilermaker. Now I'm living the good life in Buena Vista, BCS.

Ateo - 10-18-2011 at 06:38 PM

I was being born in 1975.

Udo - 10-18-2011 at 06:47 PM

I had visited Baja since 1966

But in 1975 I had left Haight Ashbury district (San Francisco) for spending several months in Alaska. :yes:

bajabass - 10-18-2011 at 06:48 PM

High school in Placentia, Ca., first surf trip to K-55 in July. 10 kids and two YMCA twenty year old "counselors". :rolleyes:

Marine Corps a year later, where I learned all the "intimate" details of TJ, as a crazy 17 year-old.

Now married to Dra. Bajabass and kickin' it in La Paz! :biggrin:

Tano - 10-18-2011 at 07:02 PM

Oddly enough, in 1975 I found something at a swap meet that was published by a company from Danbury, CT--Grolier--that had a great influence in my life. Recently, I have been doing some research on it, trying to find out something about its origins, but the company that took over Grolier, Scolastic, has been completely uncooperative.

BajaWarrior - 10-18-2011 at 07:11 PM

1975?

Surfing in Baja of course (K55) on a ditch day with the older guys from my neighborhood in Mission Bay San Diego... Where else?

Woooosh - 10-18-2011 at 07:11 PM

By 1975 I had escaped Connecticut and was going to college and teaching skiing in Colorado.

[Edited on 10-19-2011 by Woooosh]

Skipjack Joe - 10-18-2011 at 07:15 PM

Working as a marine biologist for USC. Hauling up bottom critters from 2000' below with waves crashing over the stern. Mostly calm days, though. Laying on the bow watching porpoises below.

msawin - 10-18-2011 at 07:15 PM

Graduated from high school.

Made my first trip to Baja with
some friends I met in the motocross arena in 1977. Ensenada. Will never forget crossing the boarder north bound and had to stop to
empty the street cart clambs I ate.

1989 made my first trip to loerto with great friends and some how on that trip drove down to Tripui... Could never forget it.
Got our place down there in 2000... could not be better...

martin-o

Bob H - 10-18-2011 at 07:51 PM

I was living in Miami, Florida and working for the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Regional Office.

Later, moved to San Diego in 1984 and then shortly thereafter, discovered Baja!

Hook - 10-18-2011 at 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DENNIS
I was a bartender in San Juan Capistrano. Opened the Capistrano Depot, Cinco De Mayo, 1975.

Dennis, do you remember the Mexican restaurant that was about diagonal to the Depot at that time. Believe it was called Mexico Lindo? It bordered the street that went into the Los Rios District.

Or, what about the Mexican restaurant named Henry's that was along Coast Hwy, right across from Hole-in-the-Fence beach? It eventually became the first Olamendi's restaurant. Man, they had great food.

I spent a lot of the early 70s in those two places.

Where did you live? In town? DP?

redmesa - 10-18-2011 at 08:12 PM

Immigrating to Canada after living my early life on the Texas gulf coast
Getting married to a California/Canadian
Moving to Kitimat (northern BC) to run a science program at a school

My husband has been dreaming of Baja most of his life. I now share that dream as a reality.

krafty - 10-18-2011 at 08:59 PM

Flight attendant out of JFK for Capitol Int.l. Airways, living on Long Island

BajaBruno - 10-18-2011 at 10:52 PM

There are some great memories here from you veteran Nomads.

In '75 I was oceans away from here, getting ready to be discharged from the Air Force.

I didn't really discover Baja until ten years later when a roguish friend talked me into driving solo down Baja during my ten day vacation from work. I made it to BOLA and Bahia Conception, but no further. I fell in love with more than the landscape.

Lots of Baja in 1975...

David K - 10-18-2011 at 11:47 PM

Baja was BIG in my life that year as I was 17-18 years old in '75.

Easter Vacation was a repeat of the big Baja loop trip/ tour of the previous year, in my dune buggy. This time, 2 other vehicles followed me. We went down the Pacific side to Mision San Fernando, El Marmol, Calamajue, and up the gulf to Alfonsina's, Nuevo Mazatlan and back home.

A lot of the main mission church was still standing in '75:

On the old road out of El Marmol, near La Virgen:

At the turquoise mine in La Turquesa Canyon (south of Gonzaga Bay):

Mike Clancy was my travel partner this trip.

That June, I went to the SCORE Baja Internacional (500) and watched at Valle de Trinidad. Mickey Thompson was racing his rear engined Chevy LUV with son Danny. They stopped right in front of me to try and make repairs.

In August I went to the (Baja Racing Association) Baja 300 at Santo Tomas and watched Ivan Stewart win in a buggy:

One racer that broke down, borrowed a horse from a ranch and rode back to Santo Tomas with his helmet and fire suit on!:

I also went to the first SCORE Baja 1000 that November. We watched from Valle de Trinidad and again at the Sulfur Mine. It was the first 1000 to use the loop format starting and finishing in Ensenada (Punta Prieta was near the southernmost point in the course, except for classes 6, 7, & 11. It was believed the route along the Seven Sisters was too tough with deep silt for them, so they ran Hwy. 1 from Guayaquil to El Crucero/Calamajue rd.). It was weird to see the first racers arriving at the Sulfur Mine that evening to be Class 7 mini trucks! (I hadn't heard of the special short coarse for them).

Here's Parnelli Jones pitting his new Blazer racer at Trinidad:

Thanks to dad, I had a new Jeep to do my Baja travels in. Here it is on the road to San Felipe from Diablo Dry Lake:

[Edited on 10-19-2011 by David K]

baitcast - 10-19-2011 at 06:56 AM

I was in my fifteenth year working for Robertshaw Controls in Long Bch and spending as much time as we could with our friends in Gonzaga Bay.

CortezBlue - 10-19-2011 at 07:03 AM

In 1975 I was a Senior in Scottsdale,

Baja, was on the bucket list, however, Rocky Point and Nogales were so much closer. The Baja, was just on the horizon in the future.

Tbone - 10-19-2011 at 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BajaWarrior
1975?

Surfing in Baja of course (K55) on a ditch day with the older guys from my neighborhood in Mission Bay San Diego... Where else?

I too surfed K55 back in the early 70s. I remember a friend of mine sitting on the last step of those ragged wooden bleachers, that stuck out of the cliff, smoking a fatty. After all this was the 70s. It cost $2.00 to park your car back then, just pay the guy in the shack with the machete. You didn't have to worry about your car, the parking guy would keep an eye on it for you. Good days.

bufeo - 10-19-2011 at 08:17 AM

We were in the Santa Ynez Valley (CA). I was in my 13th year on the faculty of a college-prep boarding school. By that year we'd made many trips to Baja California.

Quote:

Originally posted by bajario
I believe I was living in Barnwell South Carolina. Two years old. Many moons and sunrises from Baja.

BARNWELL!!!! Yikes! I might be one of the few on this forum who knows where Barnwell is. My parents lived in Allendale from 1957 - 1970.

Allen R

Curt63 - 10-19-2011 at 08:32 AM

Great pics David.

Well, I was in sixth grade so all I did was skateboard all afternoon on the long winding hills of Rolling Hills, Ca.

My only Baja connection was that Parnelli Jones lived about 4 houses away and we got to see a never ending supply of race vehicles (mostly Broncos) in his front yard. We used to go look at them but I had no idea what they were built for.

My baja trips started in 1978.

I envy you guys that were enjoying baja in those days.

durrelllrobert - 10-19-2011 at 09:19 AM

In '75 I was working for the Dept. of Navy at China Lake, Ca but because much of my work involved dealing with east coast contractors , including one in Middeltown, CT and another in Simsbury, CT I transfered to Wash. DC. I made one final trip to San Felipe before moving.

David K - 10-19-2011 at 09:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Curt63
Great pics David.

Well, I was in sixth grade so all I did was skateboard all afternoon on the long winding hills of Rolling Hills, Ca.

My only Baja connection was that Parnelli Jones lived about 4 houses away and we got to see a never ending supply of race vehicles (mostly Broncos) in his front yard. We used to go look at them but I had no idea what they were built for.

My baja trips started in 1978.

I envy you guys that were enjoying baja in those days.

Very cool Curt!

Here is a photo I took of Parnelli as he drove his Big Oly Bronco the day before the 1973 Baja 1000 started in Ensenada... He had just come back from 'warming up his tires' (he said) and was parking it on his trailer.

TMW - 10-19-2011 at 09:59 AM

I started out 1975 working in Paducah, Kentucky and got fired in Feb. Called my old boss up and got my old job back in Decatur, IL. Didn't move to CA until 1978.

sanquintinsince73 - 10-19-2011 at 10:24 AM

Gaspar De Portola Junior High in Tarzana, Ca. While all of the movie star's kid's went to St. Tropez, Paris, and Hawaii, we were doing Baja.

dizzyspots - 10-19-2011 at 10:39 AM

US Air Force....U-Tapoa Royal Thai Air Force Base...DC130 flightcrew...launching recon drones over VietNam

Martyman - 10-19-2011 at 10:41 AM

Graduated from high school in '75. Already had been on multiple trips to baja and Mexico with my family. Thanks Dad!

David K - 10-19-2011 at 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Martyman
Graduated from high school in '75. Already had been on multiple trips to baja and Mexico with my family. Thanks Dad!

Ditto... thanks to dad!

(dad and I on the road to the observatory, Oct. '72)

Dewey - 10-19-2011 at 11:44 AM

Started going to Baja to surf in 1962. In 1975 my brother, some friends and I were surfing the points of the 7 Sisters on a regular basis.

DENNIS - 10-19-2011 at 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dizzyspots
US Air Force....U-Tapoa Royal Thai Air Force Base...DC130 flightcrew...launching recon drones over VietNam

Before or after Apr. 30? :?:

Oso - 10-19-2011 at 01:25 PM

Grover City, CA, when they had a beach. Now it's Grover Beach and they have no beach. They sold it to the State. Now it costs $4.00 to get on the beach and you don't dare crack open a beer. Sux.

Took a few trips to San Felipe, once as far as Mulege.

Ken Bondy - 10-19-2011 at 01:27 PM

1975 was straddled by two big years in my life. In 1974 I made my first PIC flying trip to Baja (C177RG to Palmilla), which was to be followed by roughly 100 more Baja trips through 1993. In 1976 I founded my two companies, one a structural design firm, the other a construction firm, both specializing in post-tensioned concrete building structures. 1975 was a real crossroads year.

[Edited on 10-19-2011 by Ken Bondy]

bkbend - 10-19-2011 at 01:30 PM

Out of college in Oregon and not really working in 1975, a friend came back from Baja with lots of great tales so I packed up my van and girlfriend and took six weeks in Baja going to Cabo and back. Got pretty used to living out of the van so I went to Colorado (minus girlfriend) and lived out of the van while skiing.

htnfool - 10-19-2011 at 01:40 PM

1975...

1st grade for me, I don't think I knew Mexico even existed, never heard spanish and I had a canadian teacher named Mrs. Seabrooke.

Oh yea, broke my arm that spring on a last day of school field trip, :mad:

now my elbow is starting to itch.

I think I found my 1st playboy magazine in the gutter on the way home. You could knit a sweater with all that wool, WOW.

Thanks for that memory :yes:

bajabass - 10-19-2011 at 02:28 PM

Buncha Youngins!!! :biggrin:

I thought I was the kid around here!

mooose29 - 10-19-2011 at 04:11 PM

I was 3 and living in Switzerland with my Mom and already skiing all over the place. Mom moved back to the states when we were 5 and we started going to Baja shortly thereafter. Been going up and down the peninsula ever sense

paranewbi - 10-19-2011 at 04:17 PM

Surfing Central America in VW van with my buddy Bruce. This is El Salvador (our Frisbee) I'm the white guy on the left / Back...Bruce is the not so white guy, no shirt on the right

[Edited on 10-19-2011 by paranewbi]

El Salvador.JPG - 41kB

mulegemichael - 10-19-2011 at 04:23 PM

spent 10 months of 1972 living in a driftwood shelter at punta banda...by 1975 i was a bouncer, bartender,fishing guide, newspaper columnist, student in bellingham washington living the good life.

woody with a view - 10-19-2011 at 04:59 PM

i was 10. living 4 blocks from the beach in OB. spent summers riding those blue and yellow rafts you could rent on the beach for $1/day. sunburnt ears led to scabs on the tops of my ears. i still have the ears, tho!

Von - 10-19-2011 at 07:29 PM

I was 3 living in La Barca, K30 soon after to move to Orange county and come back to Rosarito every other month~

DENNIS - 10-19-2011 at 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bajabass
Buncha Youngins!!! :biggrin:

I thought I was the kid around here!

Ohhhh...you are. :cool:

KurtG - 10-19-2011 at 08:20 PM

In 75 I was living in Mulege with my 3 year old daughter and 6 year old son. Great times for them and me.

BajaBlanca - 10-19-2011 at 08:34 PM

this really is a fun thread .... lots of experiences .... all of us now connected by Baja !!

[Edited on 10-20-2011 by BajaBlanca]

Barry A. - 10-19-2011 at 08:58 PM

1975--------BLM Chief Ranger (the first), El Centro, CA. Continued my many trips to the beaches below San Felipe to San Francisquito & El Barril started in about 1954. Loved it all, even El Centro!!! :lol:

Barry

BajaGringo - 10-19-2011 at 09:00 PM

In the Navy!

bacquito - 10-19-2011 at 09:06 PM

I was living in the Lower Rio Grand Valley near Brownsville Texas and working for a chemical mfg. (pesticides). It gave me a chance to travel the eastern and southern part of Mexico.

It ain't changed much

bacquito - 10-19-2011 at 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Barry A.
1975--------BLM Chief Ranger (the first), El Centro, CA. Continued my many trips to the beaches below San Felipe to San Francisquito & El Barril started in about 1954. Loved it all, even El Centro!!! :lol:

Barry

I live in Yuma and do some traveling to El Centro. I much prefer Yuma!!

Barry A. - 10-19-2011 at 10:09 PM

I liked Yuma too, Bacquito, and went over there pretty often. Heck, I like everyplace I have lived, and they are all different.

1975 was a long time ago, and I think that El Centro has changed a lot (left in '86)-------in fact I get lost there now. :rolleyes:

barry

paranewbi - 10-20-2011 at 03:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by woody with a view
i was 10. living 4 blocks from the beach in OB. spent summers riding those blue and yellow rafts you could rent on the beach for $1/day. sunburnt ears led to scabs on the tops of my ears. i still have the ears, tho!

OH YEA! Rented those rafts also in '63 (8 yrs old) before pier was built...loved riding on top of those little girls riding on their rented rafts.
Hey Woody, the sunburns were bad but I remember getting tit rash from those rafts so bad you could only ride every other day!

woody with a view - 10-20-2011 at 05:37 AM

i forgot about the rash! thanks for that!!! i would always dig thru the stack of rafts and find the hardest one. they seemed to ride so much better than those half full ones, duh!

anyone else ever had raft rash so bad your nipples scabbed over?

Marc - 10-20-2011 at 06:19 AM

Racing Marathons and doing well in my age group. Later on raced Triathlons. Quit racing in 1991 and got my life back.

beachbum1A - 10-20-2011 at 07:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Was Baja a part of your life in 1975??

I remember a weekend of duck hunting with (3) friends down at the Wister Reserve (near Niland). We had reservations for Saturday and hunted that day OK but on Sunday it had to be "space available" as we had no reservations.
Up early Sunday morning & checking in we were told there were no openings! What to do? One guy suggested a drive to Algodones, MX for breakfast and some shopping. That was my very first experience in a Mexico border town. Most memorable!

J.P. - 10-20-2011 at 09:16 AM

Living in Houston Texas Helping build the Gallerea Shoping complex and bought my new Bayliner Victoria a very good year.

DENNIS - 10-20-2011 at 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Marc
Racing Marathons and doing well in my age group. Later on raced Triathlons. Quit racing in 1991 and got my life back.

Jeeeezo....it should be against the law to look that healthy.

dtutko1 - 10-20-2011 at 12:45 PM

In 1975 I had just graduated from Cal Poly and lived in San Luis Obispo. My first surfing trip to Baja was 1963. We would attend the friday night dance at the Grand in Torrance and after the dance drive to TJ which was in full swing at about 1am. Have a few cold ones, then head to k-39,54, San Miguel for the morning glassoff. After the am session we'd get some breakfast then head for the beer warehouse for a case. Good times and memories.

805gregg - 10-20-2011 at 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BajaWarrior
1975?

Surfing in Baja of course (K55) on a ditch day with the older guys from my neighborhood in Mission Bay San Diego... Where else?

K-55 how cool, one of my Hawthorne High classmates's parents had a place at K-55 "Campo Lopez" His name was Bobby Gomen , they had a trailer right on the water at the point. A trailer and a bunk house for the surfers. I started going there in about 1966 or 67, great right point , and a good left off the rocks in the summer, plus good beach break all the time, if you could make it out, that place always had a swell, like La Mission. In 1975 I was living in OB and surfing Northern Baja, 3 times a week, when there was a swell, (I had a friend with a Dr dad and a house at San Antonio), (Baja Malibu). Great wave in the right conditions. And then carnitas at Las Flores De Michoacan after surfing best years ever, and best carnitas. Thanks for brining me back.

805gregg - 10-20-2011 at 08:17 PM

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I rented those same rafts at El Porto in El Segundo about 10 years earlier, I loved those rafts, where did they go? Usually blue with the yellow rubber ends, tougher than nails, I want one now. And I remember the tit rash too, but it didn't stop you, what fun.

[Edited on 10-21-2011 by 805gregg]

wiltonh - 10-20-2011 at 08:37 PM

In 1975 I had just graduated from electrical engineering and was working for Tektronix in Portland Oregon. We had been doing a trip to Mexico every other year since about 1958. My father was a doctor near Spokane Washington and we would pack up our stuff and drive either to the mainland or Baja.

1975 was our "stay up North year" but in 1974 we had driven a class "A" motor home pulling a car from Spokane to Lapaz and then took the car to Cabo. While down there we went diving at Cabo Pulmo.

Normally we got about 2 weeks off so that was a lot of miles to drive in two weeks. There was an issue with the carb on the motor home and it only got about 4 miles to the gallon. Gas was a lot cheaper then but that trip cost a lot more than what we expected.

People in Washington really had no idea about where Baja was at that time. We would tell them that we had gone as far below the border as Spokane was above the border. This seemed to put things into perspective.

BajaDanD - 10-20-2011 at 09:59 PM

In 1975 I was 16 and where ever it was I was, I was in trouble. Thats about all I can remember.

DENNIS - 10-21-2011 at 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BajaDanD
In 1975 I was 16 and where ever it was I was, I was in trouble. Thats about all I can remember.

Kinda like the Haight in the sixties......if you can remember it, you weren't there. :cool:

sanquintinsince73 - 10-21-2011 at 09:43 AM

I'm guessing this is around 1975 or maybe earlier. Excuse the photos, my scanner went t*ts up so I took a photo of the photos.

I am on the right on both photos. The old mare on the left was called "Satanas" by the locals, she would not let anyone ride her. The old boat on the right was towed to San Quintin by my dad and his brothers in the mid-fifties. They actually use to take her out in San Quintin Bay. We still have the old outboard engine at my dad's house in L.A. He had brought it back for repairs in the early sixties but it never made it back to San Quintin. Back in the late 50's one of my uncles decided to move to San Quintin and he was appointed a "Comisario", kinda like a sheriff. He had no uniform but was given a .38 to carry in his pocket.

Sorry about the size, I couldn't figure out how to re-size.

[Edited on 10-21-2011 by sanquintinsince73]

The Sculpin - 10-21-2011 at 10:00 AM

1975 was spent surfing my home breaks - indicators, avalanche, wally's and K&G's - along with some extended forrays in Big Sur - sand dollar, willow creek and fullers - and of course baja - but only the northern part. One memorable night we were sleeping at K-55's in a VW van when we were violently awoken by large rifles and flashlights. A thorough search was performed but to no avail as all consumables had been consumed the night before (but still raging through the bloodstream!). Unbeknownst to the rest of us, the owner of the bus reached into a "secret compartment" and pulled out a stack of playboys - a deal was struck - and as we watched the glow of tailights dimming in the distance we realized that we were the only ones on the bluff.....

[Edited on 10-21-2011 by The Sculpin]

[Edited on 10-21-2011 by The Sculpin]

BajaGeoff - 10-21-2011 at 10:38 AM

In diapers....living in San Diego.

pappy - 10-21-2011 at 12:22 PM

senior year, living in ventura, making runs to baja with friends and/or family. first trip 1968 with family. first w/out parents, 1972. (what an experience that was!)

David K - 10-21-2011 at 04:01 PM

The 60's and 70's were great times to discover Baja. There were far fewer campos so more of us may have been at the same place on any given holiday.

Nuevo Mazatlan (formerly Agua de Chale) south of San Felipe was one of the few places to access the beach from the old Puertecitos road, and it was always busy on the holidays. Even though it was over 25 dirt miles of driving from the pavement.

Nuevo Mazatlan, Labor Day, 1967

The beach near San Antonio del Mar, west of Colonet was also busy on the holidays. Both places we visited often... I wonder how many of you were also there at the same time as us? Seems like a lot of you were born in the 1950's like me, so maybe your parents or you as a teen drove to those places back then?

David K - 10-21-2011 at 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
I'm guessing this is around 1975 or maybe earlier. Excuse the photos, my scanner went t*ts up so I took a photo of the photos.

I am on the right on both photos. The old mare on the left was called "Satanas" by the locals, she would not let anyone ride her. The old boat on the right was towed to San Quintin by my dad and his brothers in the mid-fifties. They actually use to take her out in San Quintin Bay. We still have the old outboard engine at my dad's house in L.A. He had brought it back for repairs in the early sixties but it never made it back to San Quintin. Back in the late 50's one of my uncles decided to move to San Quintin and he was appointed a "Comisario", kinda like a sheriff. He had no uniform but was given a .38 to carry in his pocket.

Sorry about the size, I couldn't figure out how to re-size.

[Edited on 10-21-2011 by sanquintinsince73]

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Phil S - 10-21-2011 at 08:00 PM

I was running my own property/casualty insurance company in a small town in Oregon. Hadn't discovered Baja yet, and was about to start taking flying lessons. And ten years later, I did descover Rattlesnake Beach at Puerto Escondido where my brother & I flew down to see what the heck our cousin saw in Baja that he'd spend the winters down there on the beach in his airstream???? Wow!!!! We were hooked the minute we stepped off the airplane at Loreto. And 25 years later, I'm still driving to Loreto & Cabo. viva La Mexico

[Edited on 10-22-2011 by Phil S]

stimbo - 10-22-2011 at 09:50 AM

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Originally posted by David K
The 60's and 70's were great times to discover Baja. There were far fewer campos so more of us may have been at the same place on any given holiday.

Agreed, great times in Baja.... I finished up with college in 1975 but had about 10 years of Baja explorations under my belt by then. My dad loved to fish so I became a willing accomplice for his adventures south of the border. One of the highlights was our drive to Gonzaga Bay on the old road in the 60's. I still remember the sounds of our truck as it bounced and bottomed out on that road. Just imagine the grinding of metal to stone, the old Dodge screaming for mercy.

DK, I can almost guarantee we crossed paths many times down there. Good times back then, AND, good times now. My kids are seasoned Baja vets now, from their days of sandy diapers on the beach to now, college kids fishing for dorado on the Sea of Cortez. We've come full circle. Thanks dad!

David K - 10-22-2011 at 10:31 AM

I have a ton of slides of my first Baja trips (1965-1975)... and I need to get them on a disc or printed to share.

DENNIS - 10-22-2011 at 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by David K
I have a ton of slides of my first Baja trips (1965-1975)... and I need to get them on a disc or printed to share.

Buy one of these:

http://tinyurl.com/42qcmkp

David K - 10-22-2011 at 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DENNIS

Quote:

Originally posted by David K
I have a ton of slides of my first Baja trips (1965-1975)... and I need to get them on a disc or printed to share.

Buy one of these:

http://tinyurl.com/42qcmkp

Thanks Dennis, I will ask Santa!

JZ - 5-17-2014 at 05:01 PM

1st or 2nd grade in Ohio. Had never seen a Mexican in my life, not in person anyway, and maybe not even on TV outside of Speedy Gonzalez....

First trip to MX was 1981 to TJ and Rosarito with my parents when we were visiting my sister who lived in Long Beach.

EnsenadaDr - 5-17-2014 at 05:18 PM

Freezing my sombrero off in Connecticut...thank God for the wonderful weather we have in Baja California!!

windgrrl - 5-17-2014 at 05:28 PM

Pump jockey at the Gulf highway station. Graduated from high school. Got married. Never looked back.

durrelllrobert - 5-17-2014 at 06:04 PM

'75 was the year I transferred from the NAWC at China Lake, in the dry Mojave desert, to NAVSEA in Washington DC with cold winters and humid summers.

durrelllrobert - 5-17-2014 at 06:13 PM

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Originally posted by JZ
1st or 2nd grade in Ohio. Had never seen a Mexican in my life, not in person anyway, and maybe not even on TV outside of Speedy Gonzalez....

how about the Cisco Kid and Poncho?

yellowklr - 5-17-2014 at 07:27 PM

Being a 2 yr old living by San Diego State

24baja - 5-17-2014 at 08:25 PM

I was a sophmore in high school taking a spanish class and baja was not even a blip on my horizon. My husband was in singapore in middle school.

monoloco - 5-17-2014 at 08:35 PM

Commercial fishing in Alaska in the summer and being a ski bum in Oregon all winter.

Heather - 5-17-2014 at 09:06 PM

Getting ready to celebrate the bicentennial in Boston...where my USMC dad had been on recruiting duty for 6 years...moved to O'side, CA the next year for junior high. My dad was afraid to cross the border, guess he'd heard too many stories about Marines doing stupid stuff and getting locked up down there.

Other than a couple of trips with high school and college friends in the 80's,
I didn't discover Baja until Alaska Airlines started flying to Cabo in the late 80's/ early 90's.

My sis and her Alaska Air buddies consider themselves the original Cabo Bimbos!

MMc - 5-17-2014 at 09:28 PM

This is a 2011 post!!!!! let's move on!!!!! I think I was doing the first trip of Europe, who care's it was a life time ago. Grow up and move past the BS of your life....... maps and gps points to follow.
This is like when I show up to a point or surf break and these guys are doing the little roster dance... I been coming here since 19?? and I am all that and a bag of chips.

[Edited on 5-18-2014 by MMc]

bajalearner - 5-17-2014 at 09:31 PM

In 75, my second year of college, I moved from San Francisco CA to San Diego because I liked the Mexican influence in SD. SF has many cultures of course, but the weather, architecture girls and other MX cultural influences were attractive to me. I occasionally visited south of the border for fun when my school and job allowed.

I grew up in San Francisco but went to high school in Casper WY.

BajaBoomerBabe - 5-18-2014 at 06:16 AM

I was building my house in Yelapa, Jalisco, Mexico. Sleepy, little fishing village of 300 people, no cars, no phones, no electricity! A few Californian ex-pats and a sprinkling of Canadians (me, being one). Fishing every day. Loved it! Still love Mexico but living in Los Cabos now.

volcano - 5-18-2014 at 06:26 AM

heading for Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua for 6 months with boyfriend after graduating from college............ all on $1200 between the 2 of us, and a small pickup with shell.....best thing we ever did for ourselves

Marc - 5-18-2014 at 06:47 AM

I was 34 and in the best shape of my life.

Barry A. - 5-18-2014 at 07:10 AM

In '75 I was the first Chief Ranger for BLM in El Centro, CA responsible for BLM lands in Imperial, San Diego, and Riverside Counties and the implementation of the new BLM "Desert Program" for the CA Desert.

I escaped to Baja many times during those years, before and after then.

Barry

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