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Baja Bernie
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Nomad Guys & Gals
Jaime has come up with something that is very interesting to me and I thought I would try and share it with all of you.
Go way back as far as you can remember and recall your first impression of Baja. For her it was when she was 7 years old and she remembers seeing the
difference in how she lived and how her Mexican friends lived. She became aware of the fact that her home had a roof, windows and carpet on the floor.
She knew that her friends, in some cases had none of these things. It was not poverty just a different way to live. That was when she began to take
some of her own toys to Baja to share with her little friends.
My first recollection of Baja was going to TJ to get a haircut because it was better, cheaper, and everyone was so friendly. No common language but
that never seemed to be a barrier.
Try going back yourself and consider sharing your first impressions with the rest of us.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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DENNIS
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In the 40's, my family and relatives would take trips out to Victorville to spend a few days in a shared cabin. At that time, Victorville wasn't much
other than a homestead shack here and there but it stuck in my mind.
First trip to Baja around '55 kinda reminded me of Victorville, but more of it. I wasn't shocked by either one. It was just the way it was.
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Dave
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Haircut?
| Quote: | Originally posted by Baja Bernie
My first recollection of Baja was going to TJ to get a haircut because it was better, cheaper, and everyone was so friendly. |
Is that what they called it back then? 
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Mexitron
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Ensenada 1964----six years old...I remember the taste of real Mexican food for the first time ( as opposed to Taco Treat in South Pasadena...).
Everyone seemed happy except for my 3 year-old brother who got tired of walking and sat down in the middle of of the crosswalk and cried and wouldn't
go any farther. Poor Mom.
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Oso
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Seventeen years old, The Blue Fox. Nuff said.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
Seventeen years old, The Blue Fox. Nuff said. |
What??? No Long Bar???
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Barry A.
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8 years old (1946) walking the streets of TJ with my Mom & her friends---------friendly people, food good, and exciting, noisy, and "different".
Loved it!!!
17 years old, TJ-----Long Bar, Jai Lai and Bull Fights, great food, and Hussong's in Ensenada --------and diving for bugs, HEAVEN.
17 years old and on until lately-------all over Baja for that "Baja Feeling"-------best "feeling" environment I ever experienced, in almost every way.
Barry
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
Seventeen years old, The Blue Fox. Nuff said. |
They made a movie:
Eat at the Blue Fox
Where Big Burritos And Hot Tacos Come Together!
Starring Kitten Natividad
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196522/
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Oso
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
Seventeen years old, The Blue Fox. Nuff said. |
They made a movie:
Eat at the Blue Fox
Where Big Burritos And Hot Tacos Come Together!
Starring Kitten Natividad
Thanks for the link, but you have to join to see it. I used to have a tee shirt with a cartoon Mexican holding a sign saying "Eat at the Blue Fox,
fine Mexican cuisine, Tijuana, BC"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196522/ |
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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DaliDali
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Some rancho near Tecate with a bunch of like minded buddies on some kind of retreat.
Eating roast pork, drinking beer and bad mouthing the black panthers.
Lapel pins were handed out.....a pig mounted up on a panther in classic "doggie style"
I may still have that pin in a drawer somewhere.....or not.
Unit 16 10-8
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shari
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Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
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great topic and memories!
My first baja magic moment was finally arriving at the edge of Ojo de Liebre and seeing a horizon filled with whale spouts in the sunset...I mean like
hundreds...thought I'd died and went to whale heaven.
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capn.sharky
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Been going since the early 50's---Tijuana and Ensenada. Just thought it was a different country with different customs. Loved the burros with the
zebra stripes on them. Got older and started visiting the cantinas with the dancing girls when I was 14 and decided I just loved Mexico. Club
Macombo.
If there is no fishing in heaven, I am not going
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BajaBlanca
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san felipe in 1988. could not believe the prices of hotels and 5 fish tacos for $1 and the warm shallow ocean seemingly going on forever ......
but it was not til we moved to la bocana in 2006 that I really got the baja bug in me !
now Les says his dream began when he was in his 20's, living in England and watching the jacques costeau tv programs on the sea of cortez. he scuba
dived at the time with a group of friends and dreamed about diving the sea of cortez. when a job offer came up in southern california - he figured it
was close enough ! from diving he went to fishing and he has been coming to baja, non-stop for over 20 years...now of course, he is living the dream
!!!
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Gypsy Jan
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I Was a Big Fan of Zorro
So, after we visited Balboa Park and the museums, we made a quick trip south of the border and she bought me a leather bullwhip so I could practice at
home.
I guess she was an early equal opportunity parent, since I also had Barbie dolls and all the other Barbie stuff and an EZ Bake Oven.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Ateo
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Ensenada 1983. Estero Beach. Looking thru a hole in the wall into the shower of our own rental to observe a girl that came down with us nude.
Sorry, I was 9.
A drunken Mexican trying to sell my parents zarapes on the beach.
Fireworks.
My dad swamping a zodiac trying to get thru the surf to go scuba dive Todos Santos.
The sweeping views on the too road near Salsipuedes.
My dad yelling at window washers to stop washing his window.
Memories of a nine years old......
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bajamedic
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San Felipe, 1965, I was 10 years old; enjoying my time with kids that had so little and yet had so much. Fire Works in the sand, switchblade knifes,
a braided leather whip, going into town and “the bar” for a warm Coke, beach combing, sunburns and that burning desire to return. JH
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MrBillM
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As a 5-year Old ............
I REALLY thought that was a ZEBRA that I was sitting on for the pic in TJ.
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Baja Bernie
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Gypsy Jan
"she bought me a leather bullwhip so I could practice at home."
Practice what?
The Splash is great...the owner used to work for Jaime's dad.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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mcfez
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Stumbled out of TJ and back to the Rosecrans barracks of the Navy..... the first shore leave given during bootcamp. I just remember that it was a
blast ...and the folks were great down there.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Gypsy Jan
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Hi Baja Bernie
Yes, I was a really big fan of the Zorro TV series - Guy something was the star and that was the only fan letter I ever wrote.
The bullwhip practice was to prevent harm.
[Edited on 1-5-2012 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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