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Bob H
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I also cannot forget BART from Jungle Jims. He was a great guy and a friendly bartender. He is missed by many...
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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EdZeranski
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The Great One
Jackie Gleason??? 
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brewer
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J.L. Terry from San Francisquito. Retired San Diego firefighter.
Anyone ever meet him?
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chumlee57
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Great question, I would think everybody would have there own mentor. Mine would be Fred Hoctor, in the early 80's he described Baja about as good as
it was in the western outdoor news, not the typical TJ to Ensenada stuff, but the entire penninsula...got me going, never looked back, baja, haha.
Gene Kira for the Baja catch, butout of the gate it was Fred
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I hope I'm wrong with this, but I think Hose-A/Gene has joined the ranks of those to be missed.
I'll feel great if he responds to this to say I'm premature.
At any rate, I miss him here.
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He is still with us, Dennis.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I hope I'm wrong with this, but I think Hose-A/Gene has joined the ranks of those to be missed.
I'll feel great if he responds to this to say I'm premature.
At any rate, I miss him here.
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He is still with us, Dennis. |
Thanks, Igor. Last I heard [I think you remember], he was on shaky ground. Tough ol' buzzard..eh.
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woody with a view
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Catch One For Curt!
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Good news to hear. I have missed Gene's posts.
Thanks Igor.
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I hope I'm wrong with this, but I think Hose-A/Gene has joined the ranks of those to be missed.
I'll feel great if he responds to this to say I'm premature.
At any rate, I miss him here.
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Desertbull
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Don Jimmy ... I'm still learning from him!
DREAM IT! PLAN IT! LIVE IT!
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DENNIS
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OK....one I'm sad, but sure of.....
Chuy Arce.
Owner of Chuy's ...a bar in Ensenada. A gentleman of giant proportions.
Chuy was only one of the extensive Baja Arce clan well known throughout Baja California.
I'm sure some here remember the man.
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David K
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Choral Pepper, Frank Fischer, Erle Stanley Gardner, in San Ignacio
3 Baja Greats in one photo!
Erle Stanley Gardner wrote great books of adventure in Baja in 1948 and the 1960's. Income from Perry Mason financed the helicopters and off road
vehicles he used.
Choral Pepper's 1973 book on Baja's missions and mysteries really sparked my interest in history of Baja. Finding her lost mission of Santa Maria
Magdalena became a quest of mine, solved in 2009... 7 years after her death.
[Edited on 4-7-2020 by David K]
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majicparrot
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Smokey Dave Love you!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by majicparrot
Smokey Dave Love you!
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Not sure who Dave is, but he had good taste in beer. SALUD
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sancho
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chumlee57
Gene Kira for the Baja catch, butout of the gate it was Fred |
Fred was among the Legends, don't know of I missed
something, and you referred to mentors, past/current?
but isn't G Kira
around? I know the co author of the Baja Catch G Kelly
is not, hope I'm correct
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vacaenbaja
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Tom Miller really enjoyed his books and reports. He wrote a book on
fishing baja. Not very detailed butr it clued you in on spots.
I also enjoyed his Eating your way through Baja" Someone should pick
up where Tom left off and update it in online form.
I have met J L Terry if he was the guy that lived more or less full time in
that perfect little foul weather hide out of a cove along side the navy drug patrol. He had his
own floating dock there, if thats the same guy.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vacaenbaja
Tom Miller really enjoyed his books and reports. He wrote a book on
fishing baja. Not very detailed butr it clued you in on spots.
I also enjoyed his Eating your way through Baja" Someone should pick
up where Tom left off and update it in online form.
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Tom is best known for his W.O.N. articles (he replaced Ray Cannon) and his 1974 and later edition guidebooks...
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DanO
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I had the privilege of having breakfast once with Romulo Gomez of God and Mr. Gomez fame, who passed a couple of years later, in 1994. His son Pepe
cooked chorizo and eggs and the old man harangued me for not speaking Spanish. Anyway, this is one of my favorite passages from that book:
One day when I was climbing over the rocks below our house, I noticed signs of erosion. It must be that the runoff from the rain was inching closer to
the house. Every storm must carve its perch. Inexorably it advanced on our vain little pile of bricks. I wondered. Would the whole house fall?
That night at the store I asked Gomez about this unrelenting peril. "Someday, Romulo," I said, "our mansion is going to slide right into the Pacific
Ocean."
"Oh, yes," he said. "Someday. But five hundred years from now, Jack, you will still be living in that house."
"Maybe so," I said. "But isn't there something we can do about it now?"
"Well," Gomez said, "would you like to try a little tequila?"
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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Fang
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I would have to agree with Gypsy Jan's selection of Jack Smith. I discovered his weekend series, (Baja Diaries), in the L.A. Times in the 1960's and
never missed an installment. He did more to promote the area and it's people than anyone else I can think of.
He did it with compassion & insight, but more importantly, with humor. Most of the humor was self depreciating & it made all his
recollections more believable.
Baja was not unknown to me. My dad had vacationed & fished in Ensenada & San Felipe for years & started carting my brother Jim & I
with him starting in 1938-39.
He was in the US Army Air Force from 1941 to 1946 dropping bombs on the Japanese in Burma. When he returned home following the end of the war we
again spent our summers in Baja.
I have had the pleasure of meeting & knowing most of the others mentioned in this thread. Each has contributed in his / her own way and truly
deserve mention.
But Jack Smith, with his low key, insightfull & loving word pictures of the peoples and places of the peninsula earn him an award of greatness in
my mind.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
I had the privilege of having breakfast once with Romulo Gomez of God and Mr. Gomez fame, who passed a couple of years later, in 1994.
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As we have mentioned in the past, DanO, I too met Mr. Gomez in his store, but never had the honor to share his table as you did. In retrospect, it was
a great honor.....much more so for you than me.
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Mexitron
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
I had the privilege of having breakfast once with Romulo Gomez of God and Mr. Gomez fame, who passed a couple of years later, in 1994. His son Pepe
cooked chorizo and eggs and the old man harangued me for not speaking Spanish. Anyway, this is one of my favorite passages from that book:
One day when I was climbing over the rocks below our house, I noticed signs of erosion. It must be that the runoff from the rain was inching closer to
the house. Every storm must carve its perch. Inexorably it advanced on our vain little pile of bricks. I wondered. Would the whole house fall?
That night at the store I asked Gomez about this unrelenting peril. "Someday, Romulo," I said, "our mansion is going to slide right into the Pacific
Ocean."
"Oh, yes," he said. "Someday. But five hundred years from now, Jack, you will still be living in that house."
"Maybe so," I said. "But isn't there something we can do about it now?"
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Years ago we left for a weekend banzai trip to Baja---left Friday night and ended up near Punta Santo Thomas around 1am......woke up to the sound of a
van. Turned out we had camped right next door to Jack Smith's place...there had been a burglary and Gomez' son came to check us out. Fortunately
what had been stolen were some big appliances so it was pretty easy to see we couldn't be hiding anything. Ended up having a nice talk.
In 2005 my girlfriend's son was looking at houses in the L.A. area to buy. He said he found a neat place but had a couple questions that needed my
landscaping expertise. So went up to see the place and it was Jack Smith's house! His wife had just passed away and they were selling it, as
is----still had the dog yard for the Airedales.
A very nice man, Jack sent me an autographed copy of his book after I sent a comment about one of his Baja adventures.
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