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view from the San Felipe malecon
cloudy, calm day with a front rolling in.......
this food truck had a prior life
pack of beach dogs
while watching this panga along came a group of high school students launching crew/scull boats, or whatever they are called
they covered the length of the bay in short order
someone is taking on the task of repairing/restoring this beautiful old trawler
classic profile this old vessel has
[Edited on 1-31-2013 by tripledigitken]
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Love the photos Ken...
Also, thank you for sizing them to fit this forum width! It is so much nicer to read/ view without scrolling to the right to read captions or see the
whole photo...
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The boat in the sixth and 7th photos has been under repair since 1968.
Perhaps someone is finally getting serious about fixing it this time.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
The boat in the sixth and 7th photos has been under repair since 1968.
Perhaps someone is finally getting serious about fixing it this time. |
They should just turn it into a restaurant and be done with it. With all those dried seams to recaulk, it'll never float again.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
The boat in the sixth and 7th photos has been under repair since 1968.
Perhaps someone is finally getting serious about fixing it this time. |
1968, my first trip to Baja without the parents, and it was San Felipe.
That same beach had the carcases of totuava and turtle shells, and we ate turtle steak at a nearby restaurant.
got my VW stuck in sand south of town................................
back to your regular programing
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Great story! Do you also remember Arnold of Arnold's Del Mar Cafe and motel in San Felipe? A few years later, it was the 'Clam Man' who was the
colorful character of San Felipe! 1974 was my first trip without parents... we had been gouing through San Felipe since '65 to Gonzaga Bay or Agua de
Chale (Nuevo Mazatlan)... Arnold was always wanting to help with our adventures in Baja... He told us about the Matomi waterfalls and drew the
location on my dad's copy of the Lower California Guidebook. I finally got to see it about 1978, and it was far smaller than Arnold described!
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Boy, DK...
speaking of the "CLAM MAN"...that was a piece of history in San Felipe. As you know, he died of diabetes a few years back.
The other piece of history that most San Felipe tourists have never seen was the "TORTILLA LADY" who worked one street back from the main drag. Her
"shop" was an old shack near the end of the street (on the east side). She had horrible arthritis and used a piece of PVC tubing to flatten her
tortillas, which were cooked on a steel plate over an open flame.
Her son was always by her side helping her.
About 12 years ago i went back to SF, and as always my first stop was for a "COCO LOCO" at Ruben's Camp @ the north end of town.
I then went to visit the tortilla lady, and the building was boarded up.
I walked to a nearby taco stand and asked what happened to the tortilla lady.
The taco chef humbly told me that she had died the year earlier and was really glad that someone remembered her.
Tears rolled down my eyes for the next hour. They still roll down as I write this.
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I appreciate the photos and the shared memories. Thank you. 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
The other piece of history that most San Felipe tourists have never seen was the "TORTILLA LADY" who worked one street back from the main drag. Her
"shop" was an old shack near the end of the street (on the east side). She had horrible arthritis and used a piece of PVC tubing to flatten her
tortillas, which were cooked on a steel plate over an open flame.
Her son was always by her side helping her.
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It wasn't that long ago that the making of Flour Tortillas was a Cottage Industry. The stores had yet to start selling them and ladies would walk
through the big grocery store parking lots selling them by the dozen in plastic wrap.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
Boy, DK...
speaking of the "CLAM MAN"...that was a piece of history in San Felipe. As you know, he died of diabetes a few years back. ...
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I do remember Arnold's. Stayed there with some fishing buddies a long time ago. Had a bank robbery down the street and the robber was hauling a*s down
main street with the cops chasing him.
Caught the help at 4 in the morning filling the carafs of "good" water for the rooms with the garden hose.
Never had much luck fishing there, but plenty of fun.
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Maybe you guys can help me sharpen a dim memory from my youth. As a kid we went camping on a beach south of SF, and my only memory of the town was
just a couple of commercial buildings/shacks all by themselves.
This would have been the early to mid 1960's.
Is that an accurate picture of SF at the time?
Of could my memory be of a small store at a turn somewhere near SF?
As I remember it, there was a rumored nudist resort some undisclosed distance further south. My friend and I rode the wheels off my old Honda
step-through looking for it. 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Islandbuilder
Maybe you guys can help me sharpen a dim memory from my youth. As a kid we went camping on a beach south of SF, and my only memory of the town was
just a couple of commercial buildings/shacks all by themselves.
This would have been the early to mid 1960's.
Is that an accurate picture of SF at the time?
Of could my memory be of a small store at a turn somewhere near SF?
As I remember it, there was a rumored nudist resort some undisclosed distance further south. My friend and I rode the wheels off my old Honda
step-through looking for it. |
Before the chubasco of 1967, the pavement ended at the beach, and the main street that crossed right there was dirt. A gas station was at the end of
the highway on the left corner (NW)... The map from Cliff Cross's 1970 guide shows the region... and then the 1962 Gulick map... South of San Felipe
the graded road went to Puertecitos where a small gringo village was established. Between San Felipe and near Puertecitos was only 3 campos in the mid
60's: Percebu, Nuevo Mazatlan (Agua de Chale), and Coloradito. The main road was 5 miles west of Nuevo Mazatlan and went through the sulfur mine
valley.
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So it seems that my memories of SF are accurate?! The place sorta took off, didn't it?
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Here is San Felipe after the 1967 chubasco, as the main street is paved... in a 1970 Cliff Cross map:
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The 1974 Auto Club map (the last year of the large scale of northern Baja maps), San Felipe region:
[Edited on 2-1-2013 by David K]
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About 30 years ago
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Classic!
Thanks...
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