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Natalie Ann
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ok, Fernando... you've got my attention with that photo of the dulces in the market. So I could get the cacahuates garapiņados and also some more
Glorias to replace my dwindling stock. I think we're about ready to strike a deal....   
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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fdt
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Continuing historical research
I found this today in my digging thru historical stuff from Tijuana, turns out that back in the late 1800's early 1900's there was a tourist guide
named "Rueben the Guide" and I found reference of him on the San Diego Historical Society site.
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"THE CASE OF THE OLD SPANISH LIGHTHOUSE" is one of the more puzzling whodunnits in local history: why should a lighthouse built in 1854-55 by the U.
S. government be called "Spanish" when Spanish rule ended in 1822? Around the turn of the century, San Diegans called it merely "The Old Lighthouse."
Efforts to identify the source of the fiction of "The Old Spanish Lighthouse" have not been too succesful, but the best available information points
to a jovial old negro who was widely known, half a century ago, as "Reuben the Guide." Reuben - today no one can even recall his last name - conducted
tourist parties around San Diego and Tijuana. And Reuben was never one to let historical facts get in the way of giving the tourists a good time.
Anything with "Spanish" in it was sure-fire stuff. Calling the building "Spanish" made the visitors happy, and kindly old Reuben believed in
happiness.
This is a picture of Reuben in his sombrero in 1897
This man had a good sense of humor, here is another note I found on him:
The early 1900s produced a number of colorful personalities. For example Reuben Williams (a.k.a. Reuben the Guide), who wore a Mexican sombrero, a
serape, and a sheriff's star on his vest when he gave his guided tours. It was said that he always got top price for his tour of Tijuana because when
he approached the Tijuana River he would stop his mules and tell his passengers: "Dollar tickets keep your seats, 75-cent tickets walk and 50-cent
tickets push."
Here is an old post card with Reuben
And another
Gonna be one tough act to follow.
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Bob H
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Wow, great stuff, I want to go on this tour. It would be a great Nomad get-together for something like this.
Nice meeting you at the book signing event.
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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BAJACAT
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Let's go! lets do a all nomad,Tijuana history walkatoon...
Ferna have you thought about aguacaliente for you tour.
I don't know know how much is left,but a while back they where trying to collect $ to rebuild the AC swiming pool..
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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DENNIS
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FDT ------
Interesting cards. I notice that Tia Juana hadn't yet morphed into the contraction, Tijuana,............. at least not on the cards. Wonder when
that happened?
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tripledigitken
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FDT,
All the best in your new venture. Many will be surprized of the gems that do exist in Tijuana from Museums to fine dining.
Ken and Paula
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
FDT ------
Interesting cards. I notice that Tia Juana hadn't yet morphed into the contraction, Tijuana,............. at least not on the cards. Wonder when
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There are several theories as for the name and you've probably heard a few; Tia Juana (Aunt Jane), Tijuan, Ticuan.
It is also thought that the first settlers did'nt undrestand the indians language and they called it Tia Juana. The first official documents that say
Tijuana are in reference to a judicial agreement between Santiago Arguello and Agustin Olvera in wich the basis for the future development of Tijuana
were set. That was on July 11 1889, date that is considered the official founding date for Tijuana.
Something I learned on the last Viva Baja Cactus Baja Nomad gettogether was at the Tijuana Historical Society, were I met Mr. Gilberto Rios, who told
us that Tia Juana was what is now San Ysidro, this is Mr. Rios that day
[img]http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?action=attachment&tid=20656&pid=182981[/img]
He has been learning about Tijuana's history since 1929, and he showed us a picture of a trolley that whent from San Diego to national City and to Tia
Juana, but that train never came to Tijuana, just to San Ysidro and it was advertised as Tia Juana. Here is something I found, it's called "Let's
Ride the Dam Train!"
A sketch from the pen of Hiram H. Bice, Editor of the National City Record, edition of May 5, 1892, with technical interfusions by Richard V. Dodge.
Sweetwater Dam that is! The steam motor road, named National City & Otay Railway, began operating 60-Mile Excursions for a fare of One Dollar over
its entire system in 1888 and they became very popular attractions for many years.
"One of the pleasantest jaunts I ever enjoyed in Southern California was a trip to the sleepy old Mexican town of Tia Juana (now spelled Tijuana). The
day was bright and cloudless."
"We left at 9 o'clock in the morning on the excursion train which was filled with sightseers."
The train probably backed to the Junction and headed for Tia Juana, "the last town in Southern California (18.5 miles). The boundary line passes
through it and cuts it in two, the American half consisting of a single street of frame buildings and a few scattered houses. The American part has a
live air but the Mexican part is the deadest place imaginable." (Note: Probably the California town would have looked just as dead except that, due to
the floods in 1891, the old town was washed out and the remaining buildings were moved to higher ground near the border.)
"We join a file of tourists and put ourselves in a foreign country as soon as possible. The houses here are made of mud and most of the residents look
as if they were. The only respectable persons seem to be the Custom Officers and the proprietor of a curio shop, who we fancy, must live on the
American side and go down to the town when he knows the tourists are coming."
Here is another picture of Mr. Rios during our Baja Nomad toy drive on Dia de Reyes talkin to us about some historical facts 
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DENNIS
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Thanks fdt ----
A well appreciated history lesson.
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bajamigo
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Nice work, fdt. Really interesting.
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meme
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You Trip looks Great Ferna. We might just have an interested group(one or more) right here in San Felipe? There are many many of us never even been to
TJ. I will help get the word out.
meme
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sylens
from ensenada, would love to join a walking tour with you. we could drive up on the abc and meet at the frontera terminal and you could take us from
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| Quote: | Originally posted by meme
You Trip looks Great Ferna. We might just have an interested group(one or more) right here in San Felipe? There are many many of us never even been to
TJ. I will help get the word out.
meme |
For those that do not need transportation back to the USA there would be a $5 dollar discount
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fdt
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I changed the title of this thread
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jeans
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fdt
Gonna be one tough act to follow. |
Ya gotta get the hat!
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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