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Where is this?

BajaBlanca - 5-16-2013 at 05:52 PM

woody with a view - 5-16-2013 at 06:06 PM

if i hover my mouse pointer over the picture a name comes up! you gotta call it something else when you are going to post it if you want to make it harder!

i could answer but i don't want to spoil it!:biggrin:

[Edited on 5-17-2013 by woody with a view]

David K - 5-16-2013 at 08:28 PM

My casual guess is La Purisima, looking east... seems like the slope of El Pilon. My second guess is Mulege... if I get two! :lol:

I don't get anything putting my mouse over, but I am browsing with Chrome, not IE.

BajaBlanca - 5-16-2013 at 09:32 PM

Nope and nope.

Next time i will make it harder Woody ((((: Thanks for not spoiling it.

Ateo - 5-16-2013 at 09:41 PM

Old Santa Rosalia? =)

David K - 5-16-2013 at 09:53 PM

Well, just because the photo link says Santa Rosalia doesn't make it so... Old Santa Rosalia was a French mine town and had none of those Mexican style buildings, as that photo shows...

A couple of 1953 photos of Santa Rosalia from Howard Gulick:



chinolbz - 5-16-2013 at 10:18 PM

El Triunfo?

BajaBlanca - 5-17-2013 at 06:18 AM

Nope.

Geez, i got a good stumper!

Trust me, i bet almost every single nomader has been here at least once. If not more.

Spot on point David! And those photos of Santa Rosalia are great. Thanks for sharing.

Bajatripper - 5-17-2013 at 06:28 AM

My first reaction was La Paz, but then I noticed that the hills in the background seem too close to be from the plaza. Perhaps San Miguel de Comondu.

ElCap - 5-17-2013 at 07:38 AM

Isn't that the patron saint of San Ignacio, San Ignacio de Loyola, in the foreground? Then it must be San Ignacio!

David K - 5-17-2013 at 08:37 AM

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Originally posted by ElCap
Isn't that the patron saint of San Ignacio, San Ignacio de Loyola, in the foreground? Then it must be San Ignacio!


By golly, I think you got it... the photographer was on the steps of the San Ignacio mission, thus the elevation gain... and the plaza has yet to grow the giant trees we see today!!?? :light::?:

BajaBlanca - 5-17-2013 at 08:41 AM

correctomundo !

dated 1917 this photo sits in the restaurant at CAMPO RENE

aren't the trees amazingly not there LOL Shows you what a difference close to 100 years make

congrats ElCap !

[Edited on 5-17-2013 by BajaBlanca]

ElCap - 5-17-2013 at 08:49 AM

Nearly 100 years later, and all those buildings are still there. The building to the left is where Kuyima Ecotours is today. I bet those folks in the picture couldn't imagine that the Baja 1000 would someday race through that same plaza. Actually, I bet they didn't even imagine the Baja 1000. Heck, I bet they didn't even imagine cars!

Bob H - 5-17-2013 at 12:20 PM

What a fantastic old photo of that square!

willardguy - 5-17-2013 at 12:24 PM

I would have got it if the hot dog cart at the church steps wasn't out of the frame!:coolup:

Ateo - 5-17-2013 at 02:02 PM

Wow! It all makes sense now! That's an awesome photo. I'll be there in 1 month.

DENNIS - 5-17-2013 at 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by Ateo
I'll be there in 1 month.


I used to have a car like yours. Wouldn't the bus be faster? :lol:

toneart - 5-17-2013 at 02:29 PM

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Originally posted by BajaBlanca


Tie this thread to the one by Ligui titled There Back. If you did that, you would have to say "this is there". :light:

woody with a view - 5-17-2013 at 03:32 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
Quote:
Originally posted by Ateo
I'll be there in 1 month.


I used to have a car like yours. Wouldn't the bus be faster? :lol:


that's some funny chiite right there!

BajaBlanca - 5-18-2013 at 01:45 PM

:lol:

BajaBlanca - 5-18-2013 at 01:49 PM

It would be kinda neat if someone could take a pic from this exact spot for us to compare.....altho' it wd be mostly trees trees trees now!

David K - 5-18-2013 at 02:44 PM

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Originally posted by BajaBlanca
It would be kinda neat if someone could take a pic from this exact spot for us to compare.....altho' it wd be mostly trees trees trees now!


Well, here are a couple photos, the first is from the mission front door area, just to the side of the steps where the original photo was likely taken... then the next is close to the front of some buildings in San Ignacio (from July, 2007, following a downpour):



David K - 5-18-2013 at 02:46 PM

Okay, if you see the roof of the red brick building in my photo (just past the blue tarp)... it matches the roof of the building with three doors in the old photo!:light:

In re-examining, maybe it's another building next door, now with a metal roof or replaced... ???

[Edited on 5-18-2013 by David K]

David K - 5-18-2013 at 02:49 PM

1917:



2007:



There's a second old roof building past the two galvanized roof buildings in my 2007 photo that may be the one in the 1917 photo??

[Edited on 5-18-2013 by David K]

David K - 5-19-2013 at 04:40 AM

In this thread is a 1927 photo of San Ignacio, looking towards the mission from that building (the photo is printed reversed)... see the park tress growing: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=66803

BajaRat - 5-19-2013 at 10:17 AM

The Santa Rosalia pics show how much those Ficus can grow in fifty years. Their large shade trees out back next to the Municipal building now.

toneart - 5-19-2013 at 01:15 PM

I didn't want this thread to dissipate without me complimenting you, Blanca, for that wonderful photo. Of course (in hindsight ;D ) it is San Ignacio. David, your photos and text contributions are fantastic! :cool:

David K - 5-19-2013 at 08:15 PM

Thank you... keep the old (and new) photos coming everyone...

BajaBlanca - 5-21-2013 at 07:49 AM

Amazing to compare the 2 photos! That park is ever the more fantastic with the trees.

Where is this?

Skipjack Joe - 1-13-2014 at 09:53 AM

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Originally posted by BajaBlanca


A Sicilian wedding?