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mcfez
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Cool find on The Baja of yesteryears....
There's a world of old Baja photography that is at the Berkeley University on line library. Fantastic photos from the early 1900's. I have placed an
link for your viewing pleasures..........
http://tinyurl.com/bl5j7yf
Also.....if you go to the on site search engine....type in any Baja related word.....hundreds of more photos will come up: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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David K
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A million thanks. Old photos are time machines into the past!
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Ateo
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Thanks for the link mcfez. Gonna check some stuff right now.
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Correcamino
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iUn millón de gracias para esto, mcfez! Spectacular images.
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durrelllrobert
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Still looks the same TODAY
Bob Durrell
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mcfez
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David...............they must have old maps there. Thanks David.
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
A million thanks. Old photos are time machines into the past! |
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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chuckie
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great pics and great link..Thanks
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susanna
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My uncle use to farm in the San Telmo back in the 60's or 70's area in Baja i understand it is somewhere nearby San Quentin? Is anyone familiar with
that area.
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BornFisher
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Thanks for the link, great pics. And a special thanks to CC Lamb for taking these shots!!!
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Except this photo does not have the ugly electric wires that are there today.
Looking forward to sharing all of this with some local friends.
Thanks
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Nice to see that today the ficus trees in the park in the center of town are thriving and are now so much larger than in this photo. Really gives you
a sense of time passing to look at the changes in the trees.
Especially since, On the other hand, the mission hasn't changed very much at all in Hundreds of years.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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shari
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I was thinking the same thing....looks the same...but I am glad there is a little taco stand on the left there now that makes awesome tacos!
seeee....progress isnt all bad!
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Mexitron
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Looks like you have your work cut out for you David! Great link.
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Frank
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Great find. Anyone know when the Ficus trees were planted?
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San Ignacio Plaza Ficus Trees
Don't know how long ago they were planted but here's how they looked around Christmas of 2012:
Si sirve, sirve.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by susanna
My uncle use to farm in the San Telmo back in the 60's or 70's area in Baja i understand it is somewhere nearby San Quentin? Is anyone familiar with
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Hi Susanna,
San Telmo (San Telmo de Arriba) is on the now paved road from Highway One up to the observatories. The San Telmo/ Observatory side road is about 85
miles south of Ensenada and the village of San Telmo (de Arriba) is about 5 miles east. The settlement on Hwy. 1 at the turnoff is sometimes known as
San Telmo (de Abajo), so that is why the extra name ('upper' San Telmo).
The site of San Telmo began as a visita (visiting station) of the Spanish California Mission of Santo Domingo, in 1798. In 1769, Junipero Serra camped
two days at San Telmo during has walk from Loreto north to establish missions in San Diego and Carmel, Alta California.
Here is a map that shows the region and Observatory road, with 3 zoom levels to show you San Telmo:
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Looks like you have your work cut out for you David! Great link. |
Well, some of the captions are wrong... some of the photos are reversed... so I am looking at them with interest. The Mission San Fernando de Velicatá
one is interesting (mislabled in the index as San Ignacio)...
Here is my photo taken in April, 1974:
One year later, in 1975:
Jump ahead 27 years to 2002, (C) photo by Jack Swords:
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Certainly glad someone took a camera ...... cool "stuff" .... thanks
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
There's a world of old Baja photography that is at the Berkeley University on line library. Fantastic photos from the early 1900's. I have placed an
link for your viewing pleasures..........
http://tinyurl.com/bl5j7yf
Also.....if you go to the on site search engine....type in any Baja related word.....hundreds of more photos will come up: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/ |
Thanks for the info, McFez, I love seeing old photos of places I've known so I'll enjoy browsing through the link.
One Jesuit historian I came across in doing research bitterly complained that there was way more stuff recorded/written about Baja California than
such an uninviting place with such little going for it deserved. The photo record will likely fall in this category, too, as our countrymen long ago
adopted the peninsula as their playground and adventure land, documenting their trips as they went and continue to go. I fall in this category, too.
There most certainly is but one side to every story: the TRUTH. Variations of it are nothing but lies.
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mcfez
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajatripper
| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
There's a world of old Baja photography that is at the Berkeley University on line library. Fantastic photos from the early 1900's. I have placed an
link for your viewing pleasures..........
http://tinyurl.com/bl5j7yf
Also.....if you go to the on site search engine....type in any Baja related word.....hundreds of more photos will come up: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/ |
Thanks for the info, McFez, I love seeing old photos of places I've known so I'll enjoy browsing through the link.
One Jesuit historian I came across in doing research bitterly complained that there was way more stuff recorded/written about Baja California than
such an uninviting place with such little going for it deserved. The photo record will likely fall in this category, too, as our countrymen long ago
adopted the peninsula as their playground and adventure land, documenting their trips as they went and continue to go. I fall in this category, too.
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You are very welcomed. I got few other outlets of old Baja... that I will be sharing soon. Glad all is having a good time with the link.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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