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Cool find on The Baja of yesteryears....

mcfez - 4-21-2013 at 08:26 AM




There's a world of old Baja photography that is at the Berkeley University on line library. Fantastic photos from the early 1900's. I have placed an link for your viewing pleasures..........

http://tinyurl.com/bl5j7yf

Also.....if you go to the on site search engine....type in any Baja related word.....hundreds of more photos will come up: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/

David K - 4-21-2013 at 08:34 AM

A million thanks. Old photos are time machines into the past!

Ateo - 4-21-2013 at 08:55 AM

Thanks for the link mcfez. Gonna check some stuff right now.

Correcamino - 4-21-2013 at 09:07 AM

iUn millón de gracias para esto, mcfez! Spectacular images.

Still looks the same TODAY

durrelllrobert - 4-21-2013 at 10:19 AM

mcfez - 4-21-2013 at 10:26 AM

David...............they must have old maps there. Thanks David.
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A million thanks. Old photos are time machines into the past!

chuckie - 4-21-2013 at 10:31 AM

great pics and great link..Thanks

susanna - 4-21-2013 at 02:00 PM

My uncle use to farm in the San Telmo back in the 60's or 70's area in Baja i understand it is somewhere nearby San Quentin? Is anyone familiar with that area.

BornFisher - 4-21-2013 at 04:29 PM

Thanks for the link, great pics. And a special thanks to CC Lamb for taking these shots!!!

DianaT - 4-21-2013 at 04:50 PM

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Except this photo does not have the ugly electric wires that are there today.

Looking forward to sharing all of this with some local friends.
Thanks

Whale-ista - 4-21-2013 at 05:06 PM

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Nice to see that today the ficus trees in the park in the center of town are thriving and are now so much larger than in this photo. Really gives you a sense of time passing to look at the changes in the trees.

Especially since, On the other hand, the mission hasn't changed very much at all in Hundreds of years.

shari - 4-21-2013 at 05:55 PM

I was thinking the same thing....looks the same...but I am glad there is a little taco stand on the left there now that makes awesome tacos! seeee....progress isnt all bad!

Mexitron - 4-21-2013 at 07:42 PM

Looks like you have your work cut out for you David! Great link.

Frank - 4-21-2013 at 09:45 PM

Great find. Anyone know when the Ficus trees were planted?

San Ignacio Plaza Ficus Trees

Correcamino - 4-22-2013 at 02:40 PM

Don't know how long ago they were planted but here's how they looked around Christmas of 2012:


David K - 4-22-2013 at 05:56 PM

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Originally posted by susanna
My uncle use to farm in the San Telmo back in the 60's or 70's area in Baja i understand it is somewhere nearby San Quentin? Is anyone familiar with that area.


Hi Susanna,

San Telmo (San Telmo de Arriba) is on the now paved road from Highway One up to the observatories. The San Telmo/ Observatory side road is about 85 miles south of Ensenada and the village of San Telmo (de Arriba) is about 5 miles east. The settlement on Hwy. 1 at the turnoff is sometimes known as San Telmo (de Abajo), so that is why the extra name ('upper' San Telmo).

The site of San Telmo began as a visita (visiting station) of the Spanish California Mission of Santo Domingo, in 1798. In 1769, Junipero Serra camped two days at San Telmo during has walk from Loreto north to establish missions in San Diego and Carmel, Alta California.

Here is a map that shows the region and Observatory road, with 3 zoom levels to show you San Telmo:





David K - 4-22-2013 at 10:23 PM

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Originally posted by Mexitron
Looks like you have your work cut out for you David! Great link.


Well, some of the captions are wrong... some of the photos are reversed... so I am looking at them with interest. The Mission San Fernando de Velicatá one is interesting (mislabled in the index as San Ignacio)...



Here is my photo taken in April, 1974:



One year later, in 1975:



Jump ahead 27 years to 2002, (C) photo by Jack Swords:

wessongroup - 4-22-2013 at 10:45 PM

Certainly glad someone took a camera ...... cool "stuff" .... thanks

Bajatripper - 4-23-2013 at 09:28 AM

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Originally posted by mcfez



There's a world of old Baja photography that is at the Berkeley University on line library. Fantastic photos from the early 1900's. I have placed an link for your viewing pleasures..........

http://tinyurl.com/bl5j7yf

Also.....if you go to the on site search engine....type in any Baja related word.....hundreds of more photos will come up: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/


Thanks for the info, McFez, I love seeing old photos of places I've known so I'll enjoy browsing through the link.

One Jesuit historian I came across in doing research bitterly complained that there was way more stuff recorded/written about Baja California than such an uninviting place with such little going for it deserved. The photo record will likely fall in this category, too, as our countrymen long ago adopted the peninsula as their playground and adventure land, documenting their trips as they went and continue to go. I fall in this category, too.

mcfez - 4-23-2013 at 10:48 AM

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Originally posted by mcfez



There's a world of old Baja photography that is at the Berkeley University on line library. Fantastic photos from the early 1900's. I have placed an link for your viewing pleasures..........

http://tinyurl.com/bl5j7yf

Also.....if you go to the on site search engine....type in any Baja related word.....hundreds of more photos will come up: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/


Thanks for the info, McFez, I love seeing old photos of places I've known so I'll enjoy browsing through the link.

One Jesuit historian I came across in doing research bitterly complained that there was way more stuff recorded/written about Baja California than such an uninviting place with such little going for it deserved. The photo record will likely fall in this category, too, as our countrymen long ago adopted the peninsula as their playground and adventure land, documenting their trips as they went and continue to go. I fall in this category, too.


You are very welcomed. I got few other outlets of old Baja... that I will be sharing soon. Glad all is having a good time with the link.

susanna - 4-23-2013 at 05:24 PM

Thank you David for the info about San Telmo.

susanna - 4-23-2013 at 05:34 PM

Same uncle farmed in Testeraso in the early 90's growing zuchinni until he was killed in a car crash on Mex 3. We use to visit him in Testeraso back when he living there, i remember we visited him over a weekend and there was a party in the village and the music went on all night i couldn't believe it.

David K - 4-23-2013 at 05:39 PM

My pleasure!

Baja Bucko's grandfather (as I recall) lived or was born in San Telmo... For such a tiny place, it may have a lot of Nomad connections?

BajaRat - 4-23-2013 at 08:07 PM

Fantastic Mcfez, Hours n hours of fun. :bounce: