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[*] posted on 12-8-2007 at 08:55 PM
La Perla in La Paz - status?


The facade was still intact in late November (see pic). Does anyone have insight on the plans?

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[*] posted on 12-9-2007 at 02:50 AM


One side ofLa Perla used to have a row of large arches that opened up, and across each opening there was a picket-type fence about a yardstick high made of lath, so you couldn't enter. Those years in La aPaz weren't very pleasant for me, but whenever I walked downtown it cheered me up to stand at one of the arches and ogle a big round coffee table with a marble top--a perfectly beautiful thing, put together with a few little spots of abalone here and there.

When a relative died and left me a little money, I bought the table for a bit less than $100 US in pesos, which I really couldn't afford. [The neighbors knew that--my children told me they called the table "Dona Emilia's porqueria" (spelling not guaranteed)].

In driving back to the states in '68 there was no room for a table four feet across, but Bill Callahan offered to find a place for it at La Posada until I could reclaim it. When I came back, he was surprised to find out that the table was from Oaxaca, and said that since the marble wasn't cut into little squares, and there weren't any sequins on it, he had been telling people it had been made in Italy.

Turned out to be a good investment--looking at the table still makes me happy, and I have good memories of those old La Perla arches.

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[*] posted on 12-9-2007 at 10:19 AM


La perla de La Paz was a historical building and will be reconstructed to look the way it was and of course they will be leaving some original structures that were saved.
Thanks lera for the memories of those arches and of the great days at La Posada "The inn in La Paz"with Bill and others.




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