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Part 2: Desert Magazine Baja Pics: 1946
Here Walter Henderson and others travel across Laguna Salada in the August, 1946 issue! They were trying to find Palomar canyon, but couldn't find the
trail so they went north to Cantu Palms.
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Henderson drew the greatest maps!
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San Felipe, May 1948
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AAA Road Sign, 1948
This one says San Felipe: 53 mi./ Mexicali: 82 mi./ El Mayor: 35 mi. The old road was longer than today's Hwy. 5 (finished around 1954).
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David, Do you have any history or knowledge of why the Southern California Auto Club did the early mapping and exploration of Baja?
The pics are GREAT! Keep coming.
[Edited on 1-10-2005 by PabloS]
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Part of the map showing the old and new roads to San Felipe, 1948...
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1948 Road to San Felipe
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June, 1965
Here was a map highlighting the Rancho La Puerta Health Spa and triangle trip in northwest Baja...
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October, 1966
An ad for a Baja tour...
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Quote: | Originally posted by PabloS
David, Do you have any history or knowledge of why the Southern California Auto Club did the early mapping and exploration of Baja?
The pics are GREAT! Keep coming.
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Pablo, take a look at the second and third post in this thread: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=7028
I am going to say that as a club, they wanted to present automotive adventures to their members. They made maps and guides to Baja for over 80 years
and put up those historic diamond road signs all over the peninsula. I can remember them, even.
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Wow! I did not know the guides went that far back (1927). Thanks again DK
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You are welcome!
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David, really like the old maps of San Felipe area. I noticed one of them shows the Sierra Pinta along the road going down there. On the way back
from the Matomi run last February I stopped and shot this photo of the Sierra Pinta landscape... a beautiful area indeed.
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