DianaT
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Baja 1974--trip down the new highway
With the new highway completed, my in-laws took their camper down Baja in 1974----here are some scanned slides just for fun.
Campground at Santo Tomas
San Ignacio----looks not much different in these photos---I have one of the church from this year that looks almost the same---just a newer vehicle in
front.
Mulege---this place is still there, but I love the old motorcycle
Great Taxi in Mulege
Two more of Mulege---a little different today--on the wall, you can see Mulege, Arriba---John said the popular political slogan then was Arriba y
Adelante
Camping on the Bay of Conception
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[Edited on 12-6-2007 by jdtrotter]
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DianaT
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Some pix of Loreto---still 1974
Camping at Puerto Escondido ---they had 3 gas tanks on that truck
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DianaT
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La Paz in 1974 and Camping at El Cardon
San Pedro
El Trifuno
San Bartola
Don't know what happened to slide for the rest of the trip---they went all the way down----hope we find them and they did not find the shredder.
There were lots of cactus pictures, but they look the same, well the actual cactus has probably grown a little.
Wish they had taken a lot more pictures, but that is the beauty of digital today---can take all you want
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David K
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Thanks again for posting great photos frm the past!
Camping at Puerto Escondido on the water's edge was just great... that was lost with the development. They had built a slip for a ferry that was going
to run across the gulf to Topolobampo from there... that never happened.
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Natalie Ann
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What wonderful photos, Diane. You really struck it rich on this trip to visit the mother-in-law.
I see something which is especially interesting to me. The last photo in the San Bartolo photos shows an old building. That building was one of the
first (and largest) built in the San Bartolo area.
It belongs to the family of my friends Jesus and Guicha (see photo of Jesus in other thread).... began as an old adobe structure with palapa roof, as
in your picture. Over the years there was some actual brick applied, and the roof was replaced with tin. Although empty, it's still a beautiful
structure.
Here are some recent photos of it, taken from the road which now runs behind and in front of the casa.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Bob H
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Diane, these images are just simply fantastic! What a find.
Bob H
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DianaT
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Nena, that is really interesting about the house in San Bartola--
Pompano---here is the picture they took of the eagle at the border----thank you for yours. I was quite sure there was really nothing around it at
that time, but this picture does not show that----however, today it would be difficult to get this close. Also, I remember when the La Pintas were the
El Presidente Hotels---don't remember when they changed.
Some things never change---a 1974 sunset over Bahia de Conception
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Wow, what memories, that is what the Malecon looked like when I was going to school in La Paz, thanks.
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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Great shots--we're crossing our fingers that more escaped the shredder!
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Ahhhhhh .... Pt. Escondido!
Of all the changes that one hurts the most.
1978 Pt Escondido trip (1) - the journey
1978 Pt Escondido trip (2) - Feliciano
1978 Pt Escondido trip (3) - The Goat
1978 Pt Escondido trip (4) - Feliciano's confession
1978 Pt Escondido trip (5) - Homeward Bound
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Appreciate all the photos.
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David K
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High school girlfriend and Eagle Monument in 1976...
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David K
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Numero uno girlfriend and Eagle Monument, 2007:
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Packoderm
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Thanks everybody for sharing the photos. They're great.
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Paula
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Thanks, Diane and everyone for the pictures. I sure wish I had known to come down here back in the day!
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