Coco's New Corner... HELP NEEDED!

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Dear All - I should have posted this sooner... it’s about Coco / Coco Corner... he needs help!

The move is going VERY SLOWLY. These photos were a week ago Monday... all smiles... but fact is Coco is living in half the space he had before... must stay put so he doesn’t get robbed while the new place is being built. Says he feels like a prisoner. His good friend, Nacho, was working on it while we were there, but he was all alone except for his wife who waited in the truck while he installed a roof panel (old used plywood).

Very slow going. Coco will also need some concrete poured... right now there is no proper foundation for his new place, just some post holes filled with concrete, and it is very difficult for him to wheel himself around in the dirt... so he needs an exterior slab, too. Would be great if we could somehow organize a construction crew to go down and get it done for him. Seemed that was the plan when I visited him back in December, but it never materialized.

Please... if you have ideas and/or resources... COME FORWARD... we can do better to support this Baja icon!

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Coco"s construction

He is at the old place until the new is ready to move in, since thieves can take his few possessions if he is not there.
The new place is where the older road forked away from the highway at Km. 179.5, a place known as Las Arrastras.

On my map, see Las Arrastras (by K-179) and the original Coco's Corner:

Quote: Originally posted by David K

The new place is where the older road forked away from the highway at Km. 179.5, a place known as Las Arrastras. On my map, see Las Arrastras (by K-179) and the original Coco's Corner:

Quote: Originally posted by RnR

Quote: Originally posted by David K   The new place is where the older road forked away from the highway at Km. 179.5, a place known as Las Arrastras. On my map, see Las Arrastras (by K-179) and the original Coco's Corner: Just drove by Coco's new place yesterday. Nobody around. The building is very visible from Mex 5 when heading north. It is located directly above the old mill ruins at Las Arrastras and is maybe 200 yards off of the highway. The only problem is that it is a totally non-descript plywood shack that looks like every other semi-abandoned shack along Mex 1 and Mex 5. You simply whiz by it at 65+ mph without giving it a second thought! I think that one of DK's 'stock photos' shows the building site. The photo shows the circular mill ruin in the bottom of the arroyo and an old stone tower on the bank of the arroyo directly above the circular milling site. Coco's building is very near to the stone tower. [Edited on 3-31-2021 by RnR]

Here are my Las Arrastras photos:

2018, taken from the long bridge at Km. 180 looking northeastward at the Las Arrastras ruins:









August 2017 from the old road looking south:







Jan. 2017:















July 2015:

















Looking north from the cement pad from the old 1970s and earlier rancho here.




[Edited on 3-31-2021 by David K]

[Edited on 3-31-2021 by David K]

Photo #1 Whatever the structure is in this photo, it is now gone. The stone tower is still there.

Coco's building would be behind this structure at the edge of the level area and just in front of the brush line.

Photo #2 Coco's building would be just to left of DK's truck.