Ken Bondy
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Casa Diaz 1979
My pretty Bonanza:
Just kidding, it was rented from Sky Roamers.
carpe diem!
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captkw
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SWEET & A GREAT PLANE !!!
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Paulina
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I love to see old photos of Bahia, to look in the background of the shot and remember back when the town looked like that. Open spaces. Simple.
Thanks Ken.
P>*)))>{
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paulina
I love to see old photos of Bahia, to look in the background of the shot and remember back when the town looked like that. Open spaces. Simple.
Thanks Ken.
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Thank you Paulina. It sure is different, isn't it?? I love these old ones also. This was in January of 79. Back then every January Pam and I would
do a Baja runaway. We would usually start at Punta Pescadero or Las Arenas and work our way north with stops at Loreto, Mulege, San Francisquito,
Bahia and Meling (I forgot Meling )
[Edited on 8-28-2012 by Ken Bondy]
carpe diem!
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David K
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Nice!
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Nice! |
Thanks David. That's when the runway was the main street and you could taxi right up to your room at Casa Diaz.
carpe diem!
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Nice! |
Thanks David. That's when the runway was the main street and you could taxi right up to your room at Casa Diaz. |
Boy, I sure remember that. The trike in the photo was a nice homey touch, to. 
Tho I never flew in, I sure saw a lot planes there in the early and mid-70's, many being my friends--------you could taxi right up within 20 feet of
your motel room door-----that always was so cool!!!
Great shot, Ken.
Barry
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Not sure which way you landed but by the looks of that palm tree the wind was really blowing
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by dtbushpilot
Not sure which way you landed but by the looks of that palm tree the wind was really blowing |
Well, the plane IS tied down to avoid premature takeoff.
Si estás buscando la person que cambiará su vida, échale una mirada en el espejo.
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Pre-run in 1973 we drove down the main street (also the runway) parked in front of Diaz' and had a great turtle steak dinner.
Drove north just past the end of the runway and camped for the night in the sand,
up early and down toward SF and El Arco.
Great memories
especially the turtle steak!!!
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
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Thanks David. That's when the runway was the main street and you could taxi right up to your room at Casa Diaz. |
I remember those days before the Diaz runway was closed... In fact, on our first trip to L.A. Bay in 1967, there were more planes in front of the
cabins than automobiles. My next trip was in 1974, and the new road was built into town from Hwy. 1, but not yet paved. Papa Diaz was still going
strong... 1976 was our next time and stayed at the new government trailer park... road only had about 3 miles of asphalt then... The next three times
('82, '84, '85) the road had been paved, but so thin it was already full of pot holes.
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capt. mike
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Larry Hahn has a lot of diaz pics from his flights in the 50s too at his bajadreams website if it is still active.
His son Jerry had his 206 stolen from baja a few years ago.
haven't heard from Larry and his Aztec in a while, he used to post on BBP.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
Larry Hahn has a lot of diaz pics from his flights in the 50s too at his bajadreams website if it is still active.
His son Jerry had his 206 stolen from baja a few years ago.
haven't heard from Larry and his Aztec in a while, he used to post on BBP. |
His web site is still up http://www.bajadreams.com and the page with the old L.A. Bay photos is here: http://www.bajadreams.com/flybaja.htm
Larry Hahn and Capt. Mike were the two pilots who flew their planes to the airport here in Oceanside for my Viva Baja #3 party, in 2002.
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capt. mike
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yes and Larry got the prize for longest flight since he came in from El Paso!
great guy. i think he also runs the monaco coach club. Besides his fishing resort ops in sonora at the bass lakes.
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