Bob H
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Old Light House
Can anyone guess where this is? Any info on this old light house?
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Al G
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No, but as soon as one of our super smart Nomads identifies it. It will be on my list of places to go.
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longlegsinlapaz
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Could you give a teensy weensy little more of a hint?? 
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OOPS.....pic didn't load on my first look! DUH!!!
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Phil C
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Primo Tapia! what do I win? Dinner at the Palm?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Phil C
Primo Tapia! what do I win? Dinner at the Palm? |
I know it is a dumb question, but where is Primo Tapia?
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Bob H
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Primo Tapia is correct. This is a suburb located just south of Rosarito. This lighthouse is located right next door, to the North, of the Pemex
station there. It would look great renovated, but needs quite a bit of work to get it done.
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Barry A.
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Now I will compound the "dumb question" syndrom-----
-------"Rosarito" being what I once knew as "Rosarito Beach"???? Correcto???
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Keri
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Maybe others know it as Cantamar
[Edited on 7-6-2006 by Keri]
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Bruce R Leech
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thanks Keri
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Phil C
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Also included, if you care to visit, is the original disel generator, housed in a building near there. I don't know about the lens though.
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Bob H
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Phil C, It looked to me that this lighthouse was being used as a body shop. But, it was closed the day I drove by there. The red brick building next
to it has no roof but part of it you can't see inside - maybe that is the diesel area. It looked to me that there was no lens up there, but it's hard
to tell. The lighthouse is in very bad condition. But it does look REALLY COOL on a nice clear day.
Barry A - Rosarito = Rosarito Beach
Here's the eight stages of the history of Rosarito. It's very interesting...
http://www.baja-web.com/rosarito/history-rb.html
Bob H
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Good stuff, Bob. Thank you.
-----I still like the name "Rosarito Beach" tho, as that is what we called it when I first visited there with my Mom in the late 1940's, and thru the
' 50's. I spent many an evening in my late teens in the bar at the Rosarito Beach Hotel in the late '50's-----we used to go down there at least twice
a month------------good times.
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Al G
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Barry, you gave it away ol' buddy. Your not as old as you led me to believe. Only a few years as I was in my mid/late teens in the late 50's.
Albert G
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Barry A.
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Al G
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counting!!!! How did this happen???
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
-----I still like the name "Rosarito Beach" tho, as that is what we called it when I first visited there with my Mom in the late 1940's, and thru the
' 50's. I spent many an evening in my late teens in the bar at the Rosarito Beach Hotel in the late '50's-----we used to go down there at least twice
a month------------good times. |
Rosarito Beach is the official name of the city, Playas de Rosarito or Rosarito Beaches. When I was a kid my dad used to take us to Tecate and would
say Tecate Beach
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Phil C
Also included, if you care to visit, is the original disel generator, housed in a building near there. I don't know about the lens though.
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The generator, housed in the palapa/pool area was never intended to power the light house. It provided power to the Cantamar complex before the
electric came through.
And the light house:
It was built by Alejandro Borja because he felt like it. Never intended or used
as a navigational aid.
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