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I thought the same thing. I hope is is well if he is still with us!
We met Skeet at the very first Pyramid Resort Book event in 2003... Here is is with Jimmy Smith:
Jimmy Smith (wearing the hat) and Skeet act like old chums!
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That a 2-year-old photo of them. I didn't find anything newer of Skeet. Thanks for the link.
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I cane across this place in 2002 - 2004... I saw it from the water and told my Mexican captain I wanted to take a look. We anchored my boat and swam
ashore (3 of us gringos) . we walked around for about an hour. a lot of money was spent here on a 6-8000 foot main house and 2 large guest houses
about 100 yards away.... none completed, and the main house had been destroyed before its completion... giant steel beams had been pushed over and
many cut with torches and hauled away. there were 2 giant patios with palapa post overlooking the sea of cortez. cinder block foundations and a sewer
systew were all in place....conduit for electrical had been run everywhere under huge slabs of cement.... it was very strange that so much work had
been done and nothing was there.
when we returned to the boat my captain told me a story that made it even more weird..... he said the home was bein built by an Italian doctor. The
doctor was in prison on the mainland for harvesting organs from kidinapped children and selling them worldwide. the captain said that after the
doctors arrest the mexican military were the ones that pushed over the structure and hauled off the steel.
How true? Ya got me. But my captain is a pretty straight guy and has lived in Loreto for 40+years.
you can see the circle patios... and the guest houses to the south on google earth.
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From what I saw the building looked as it had not been completed.... possibly it could have been... the guest homes were completed on the exterior ...
but no finishes on the inside.
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Quote: Originally posted by honda tom  | I cane across this place in 2002 - 2004... I saw it from the water and told my Mexican captain I wanted to take a look. We anchored my boat and swam
ashore (3 of us gringos) . we walked around for about an hour. a lot of money was spent here on a 6-8000 foot main house and 2 large guest houses
about 100 yards away.... none completed, and the main house had been destroyed before its completion... giant steel beams had been pushed over and
many cut with torches and hauled away. there were 2 giant patios with palapa post overlooking the sea of cortez. cinder block foundations and a sewer
systew were all in place....conduit for electrical had been run everywhere under huge slabs of cement.... it was very strange that so much work had
been done and nothing was there.
when we returned to the boat my captain told me a story that made it even more weird..... he said the home was bein built by an Italian doctor. The
doctor was in prison on the mainland for harvesting organs from kidinapped children and selling them worldwide. the captain said that after the
doctors arrest the mexican military were the ones that pushed over the structure and hauled off the steel.
How true? Ya got me. But my captain is a pretty straight guy and has lived in Loreto for 40+years.
you can see the circle patios... and the guest houses to the south on google earth. |
i heard the same organ harvesting rumor, spooky!
i wonder who owns the land now, its a beautiful spot and some damn good fishing right out your front door!
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I know the place fairly well. I have kayaked through a few times and camped on that beach. I have also fished with a guy=Roberto Romero RIP, who had
been there his whole life. He told me someone started it and planned for it to be some type of recovery house for alcoholics and addicts. Wanted it to
be remote enough where the residents wouldn't walk off. Didn't get all the funds that he needed, and apparently walked away from it.
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K |
I thought the same thing. I hope is is well if he is still with us!
We met Skeet at the very first Pyramid Resort Book event in 2003... Here is is with Jimmy Smith:
Jimmy Smith (wearing the hat) and Skeet act like old chums! |
Is that Jimmy “the grinning gargoyle”? He looks so much like someone called that who I remember from my childhood. He was friends with Dick Maugg
and we met at Dick’s house in Playa Colorada.
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| Quote: Originally posted by kylet | | Quote: Originally posted by David K |
I thought the same thing. I hope is is well if he is still with us!
We met Skeet at the very first Pyramid Resort Book event in 2003... Here is is with Jimmy Smith:
Jimmy Smith (wearing the hat) and Skeet act like old chums! |
Is that Jimmy “the grinning gargoyle”? He looks so much like someone called that who I remember from my childhood. He was friends with Dick Maugg
and we met at Dick’s house in Playa Colorada. |
Yes, Jimmy Smith was The Grinning Gargoyle of San Ignacio in the 1960s (a moniker bestowed upon him by Desert Magazine editor, Choral Pepper during
one of Erle Stanley Gardner's campfire gatherings). Jimmy adopted it with glee! Jimmy relocated to Los Barriles some years late, towing his love Lupe
along with him.
[Edited on 10-3-2020 by David K]
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David, thank you for the history lesson! I remember him fondly, though I was in elementary through high school when I got to hang out with him. I
wasn’t aware he was so well known. Did you know Dick Maugg as well? I was very sad I didn’t get to say goodbye when he passed a few years back. I
wish I had been older and more interested in these crusty characters when I was in the East cape a bunch as a kid. The world is a good deal less
crusty, and therefore far less interesting these days.
I found a picture of Jimmy I took in La Ribera in probably ‘88 or 90. Attached here.
Sorry for the thread jack everyone.
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Oh, that's great stuff... thanks for the photo addition. This is a 6-year-old thread, so you didn't hijack a thing.
I don't have a lot of good photos of Don Jimmy. His daughter Sara is a Nomad, maybe she will pop in with something?
I will add the few photos I have with Jimmy Smith in them once my website is back online Monday.
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