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desertcpl
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rzitren
Some quick answers to questions about San Francisquitos
Jack Devine was a used car dealer and a bounty hunter from Tijuana and has passed away.
Ed Studley " Eduardo " who had the little jewelery shop and lived over in the port has also passed away.
The original owners were Rudy Vallodolid and Leonard Martinez and their picture used to hang on the wall in the bar looking like old time banditos.
The Vallodolid family sold the property off in 2007 to some group out of Mexico City. We were told that they planned on buying up all the land around
that area and making it a private resort. My partner and I had a house there for 25 years and got to know the whole cast of characters that visited
there. It is a time in my life I will never forget. |
thanks for the update,, I bet you miss those times, when I was there with Jack, it was full of life and fun alot of good vibes
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The story I heard about Ed Studley was that he was wanted in the US and everytime we were there I noticed he always avoided being in the picture. We
thought we had pictures of him at the bar or somewhere else but when we came back home we could not find one photo. One of the Mexican fisherman I
met there told me he was waiting out the statute of limitations before he could go back. He did cover sea horses and small starfish with gold and I
still have a set of the small starfish.
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that's what i heard too - Ed was hiding out for 17 years. saw him often and one day they said he just picked up and left!
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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i hated it when they cleaned out the bar and took down all the cool pics and memoriabilia. Many pics of free divers showing off large kills from San
Lorenzo isla.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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Ah...great history. Seems there were quite a few 'wanted men' hiding out in Baja before the highway made it less desirable for lawbreakers.
San Francisquito's 'Ed' sounds a little like another shady character knick-named, 'Chicken Bones'... from another Baja hole-in-the-wall episode.
Good old time stuff and sure makes me smile.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Ed was a World War Two Fighter pilot that was shot down in the pacific the same day as Pappy Boyington. He sat in a raft waiting to die when ships
from the US Navy came out of every direction. They were looking for Boyington but found Ed. After the war he became a logger out of Redding
California. He cut down a stand of trees on federal property without permission and they came looking for him. His parting words to the feds were " I
am going to take the money, buy a boat, and go to Mexico". When we first met him he was living in the port and his 35 foot boat was sitting on the
beach full of water and the money was gone.
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desertcpl
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Ah...great history. Seems there were quite a few 'wanted men' hiding out in Baja before the highway made it less desirable for lawbreakers.
San Francisquito's 'Ed' sounds a little like another shady character knick-named, 'Chicken Bones'... from another Baja hole-in-the-wall episode.
Good old time stuff and sure makes me smile. |
well come on Roger, you got me hanging here, tell us the story please about Chicken bones
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Ah...great history. Seems there were quite a few 'wanted men' hiding out in Baja before the highway made it less desirable for lawbreakers.
San Francisquito's 'Ed' sounds a little like another shady character knick-named, 'Chicken Bones'... from another Baja hole-in-the-wall episode.
Good old time stuff and sure makes me smile. |
well come on Roger, you got me hanging here, tell us the story please about Chicken bones |
Okay will do, amigo...as I see this thread about San Francisquito kind of attracts it.
From another thread in 2006..
"Yes, I miss JR's style, too ...especially for this thread.
Thinking about adventurers, I wish I could find some photos of a certain day long ago when I met a young guy hiking by BOLA. He was on a trek, too,
but seems his supplies were rather poor and some were lost in shipment, so we gave him boots and foodstuffs. Told me he was walking the entire length
of Baja...both coasts. That was just a few years after the pavement was built. He made it..I hope. Was doing it all for donations to the Brittle Bone
Cancer Society of London.
Then there was another youngster from England who was paddled the shoreline perimeter of Baja for donations to another cancer fund sponsored by the
London Daily Mirror. Believe that was in 1980 or so..
Of course there were the odd nuts who: would backpack back and forth fairly often from Coyote Bay to the Pacific and howl at the moon...fly
ultralights the entire length of the Baja Road from Ensenada to Cabo. Take a few two week burro trips into the San Francisquito Mts. and the Gigantas
out of Loreto. A boating kook who took a 16' Lund with a 20hp Johnson from San Carlos to Ille Tiburon to San Marcos to Aqua Verde to Mag Bay.
That amazingl Chicken Bones....A survivalist who outfoxed the Mexican Army from the mountains south of La Paz to the US
border...then disappeared. Another island dweller at Ille del Fonzo who survived on that bare rock for almost a year...but had a ball
doing it. Nice guy, Lorenzo...too bad he was asked to tear down his palapa and vacate.
Way back then, the desert and beaches were crowded with all sorts of adventurers doing all sorts of things. We met Graham for the first of many times
around 1987-88, I think. My memory is a little cloudy from pounding waves for so many years. He gave talks on my patio, at NOLS next door, and in the
Jungle Bar in Mulege. Always had an interesting slide-show.
Then who can forget the infamous...SILVIA!! Anybody out there know her/him? A very familiar figure on the old Baja Road from the 70's to the early
90's. Ah..the truckers knew THAT sight well! Guess he/she must be muerte now...cuz I quit having nightmares a while back. I last saw of 'Silvia' was
coming back from Muluge late one afternoon...there was Silvia, laying on his/her back on the side of the road..torso out on the highway, clutching a
bunch of plastic roses in her/his hands. A sobering sight.
Walkers, hikers, riders, paddlers, flyers, hot air ballonists, boaters, hermits, survivalists, and crawlers (rest in peace, Silvia) all have
frequented and enjoyed the special mystic of Baja over the years...and more power to them. Wish I was a few years spryer..I would join them...hmmmm,
who has some plastic flowers? "
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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These memories and stories are the true wealth of this beautiful part of Baja....simple and enduring "truths". 
Don't believe everything you think....
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Silvia was a site one can never forget.
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any one have any pixs of he/she
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Didn't take any because I did not want to remember that shadow under the makeup. I'll ask next time I am in GN if anyone remembers it.
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Now its too bad David didn't frequent the road then, he could have "preserved" it.
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any one have any pixs of he/she |
Unfortunately, the only image I have of ..ugh..Silvia is forever etched/ground into my memory banks. I surely wish I could give it to you.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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any one have any pixs of he/she |
Unfortunately, the only image I have of ..ugh..Silvia is forever etched/ground into my memory banks. I surely wish I could give it to you.
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Roger, I do hope that after a hard night of partying in the bay
you didnt wake up the next morning with whisker burns
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any one have any pixs of he/she |
Unfortunately, the only image I have of ..ugh..Silvia is forever etched/ground into my memory banks. I surely wish I could give it to you.
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Roger, I do hope that after a hard night of partying in the bay
you didnt wake up the next morning with whisker burns
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My Gawd! I thought that was the carpet!!
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your safe with the secret,, we will not tell
but I am sure that there must be alot of secrets from way back when, not talking just about you, but from alot of old timers its part of the old Baja
memories
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"My Gawd! I thought that was the carpet!!
Maybe it was the carpet.....which means you must have been belly-down.....
And the other burning wasn't habaneros
Don't believe everything you think....
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Here's the picture of Leonard and Rudy that hung in the bar for many years:
carpe diem!
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