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Cliffy
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Who's got the earliest first hand Baja experience?
I'll start it off-
My Mother was born in Norway and worked for the "Casa Vega" restaurant on Olvera Street in downtown LA in 1945 (I came around the next year:-) The
owner, Mary Vega, was from TJ and had a home there and invited my Mother down. She went and forgot her Naturalization papers. When she tried to come
back she was stopped at the border, No papers, no entry.
The next day they snuck her back in in the trunk of a car!
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jimgrms
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In 1952 And the local police threw us in jail ,, ( a Went with a school friend his Dad and uncle on a fishing trip to San Felipe .where we were
left to entertain ourselves ,While the adults fished. We were 13 years old ,and the cantinas sold us cervaza , and we got real drunk, so we got
jailed the San Felipe jail in those days was a old panel truck with no windows or wheels .I learned early to not get smart with the law .
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Barry A.
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Around 1948, while living in Coronado, my Mom (a Navy widow) often took me and my sister to TJ to the Jai Lai games (Palace), and to Caliente Race
Track along with many of her friends. I have always loved TJ ever since.
Good and exciting times!
Barry
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Osprey
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Me and my rascal buddies went to TJ because we had heard about the charming ladies who would take small amounts of money from gringo teens. It was a
natural for me because back then (and now?) I would pay a dollar to see a monkey poop.
1953
[Edited on 5-18-2014 by Osprey]
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durrelllrobert
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When I was 15 in 1952 my dad worked with a Mexican man who's brother was a TJ policeman and we were invited to a beach party at Rosarito that included
roasting a whole steer.
My dads job was to bring down a trailer load of firewood and my mother and sister decided to sleep in the trailer under a tarp instead of on the
beach. During the night the were awakened by several Mexican men shaking the trailer and making comments in Spanish about them.
They both started screaming and the TJ policeman, who was sleeping in his car next to the trailer, woke up and shot one of them. Him and my dad put
the body in the trailer and drove down the road where they threw it over the cliff.
To me it was just like the wild west in the movies.
Bob Durrell
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Cliffy
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bob it'll be hard to top that one
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David K
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I was 7 in the summer of '65 and my dad bought a Jeep Wagoneer after hearing about the great fishing south of San Felipe and a Jeep was needed to get
there. Gonzaga Bay was the first of a lifetime of Baja destinations. We drove the peninsula road (Tijuana-Cabo San Lucas) in 1966 and took the new
ferry to Mazatlan from La Paz. Great memories and life changing events for me. When I got my license at 16, I took my first trip without parents... to
Gonzaga Bay with many side trips. Great times. Viva Baja!
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Cliffy
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Actually made my first trip south in about '74 when friends and I went to Gonzaga where one of them had a block house (room) on Papa's beach. Drove
the cut from Mex 1 and pulled into a Federal Police road block about half way there at 11 PM at night. Wasn't expecting that. Lucky they didn't find
the small handgun one of the idiots brought along.
Ate turtle dinner with Papa and family. Gave away balloons to all the kids running around Papa's that night.
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cliffy
bob it'll be hard to top that one |
Didn't mention that the next day was my first time to pass out from too much drinking. After several drinks of straight tequila from the bottle being
passed around I switch to warm beer from a keg and then went in the water to cool off. Swallowed a bunch of salt water, puked and passed out coming
back to the beach. Everyone thought it was funny and just left my lying there covered with sand and my own puke for several hours.
Bob Durrell
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by Cliffy
bob it'll be hard to top that one |
Didn't mention that the next day was my first time to pass out from too much drinking. After several drinks of straight tequila from the bottle being
passed around I switch to warm beer from a keg and then went in the water to cool off. Swallowed a bunch of salt water, puked and passed out coming
back to the beach. Everyone thought it was funny and just left my lying there covered with sand and my own puke for several hours. |
Jeeeeezo, that experience would tend to make one more 'self-sufficient' in later life I suspect!!! 
Barry
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David K
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Sounds like loads of fun Bob. 
Baja is where memories are made and troubles forgotten!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
Everyone thought it was funny and just left my lying there covered with sand and my own puke for several hours. |
And...you still wear that shirt. 
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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In high school, my buddies and I were into turning cars into hot rods or really spiffing them up with special paint jobs and interiors.
One of the best places in the world to get real leather tuck-and-roll interiors was TJ. We regularly went down there in 54-57 and I still remember
leaving the pavement at the border and following a dirt road and crossing the river on a flat trestle bridge. Great beer and food but we always went
back to the other side to spend the night in a cheap motel.
Never once suffered Moctazuma's Revenge.
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sancho
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Not the earliest by a long shot, but a surf trip to Cuatro
Casas, '70 -'71, close to Camalu, bought lobster for $.50
a piece, speaking drinking and puking, snoozing in my '68
Chevy Van at San Miguel mid day after a few, then was
a beer called 3XXX. a couple buddies in the back, when I heard this
unmistakeable sound. one had turned over and puked all
over the other, brings back momories
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Ateo
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Man, lots of puking stories. My first trip down was as a kid in 1983. Estero Beach. I saw my first female nipple/boob while I was peaking thru a
hole in the wall of our rental, into the shower. In that shower was my friends' friend, the daughter of our pastor.
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ateo
Man, lots of puking stories. My first trip down was as a kid in 1983. Estero Beach. I saw my first female nipple/boob while I was peaking thru a
hole in the wall of our rental, into the shower. In that shower was my friends' friend, the daughter of our pastor. |
holy nipple!
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noserider
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It was about 1970, My Mom and Dad took My brothers and I to San Felipe to camp with a group of Friends, I was about 8 years old and while all of us
Youngsters were wandering around We heard a lot of noise coming from the public shower area, We went in quietly and realized a Young couple were
having sex in one of the stalls and apparently He was pretty good at it, We stayed out of sight and enjoyed the show , the seventies were a great
time.
NoseRider
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DocRey
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ateo
Man, lots of puking stories. My first trip down was as a kid in 1983. Estero Beach. I saw my first female nipple/boob while I was peaking thru a
hole in the wall of our rental, into the shower. In that shower was my friends' friend, the daughter of our pastor. |
holy nipple! |
Cochino!
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by noserider
It was about 1970, My Mom and Dad took My brothers and I to San Felipe to camp with a group of Friends, I was about 8 years old and while all of us
Youngsters were wandering around We heard a lot of noise coming from the public shower area, We went in quietly and realized a Young couple were
having sex in one of the stalls and apparently He was pretty good at it, We stayed out of sight and enjoyed the show , the seventies were a great
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Luke from modern family. "whatever it was, looks like dad was winning!"
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by Cliffy
bob it'll be hard to top that one |
Didn't mention that the next day was my first time to pass out from too much drinking. After several drinks of straight tequila from the bottle being
passed around I switch to warm beer from a keg and then went in the water to cool off. Swallowed a bunch of salt water, puked and passed out coming
back to the beach. Everyone thought it was funny and just left my lying there covered with sand and my own puke for several hours. |
Jeeeeezo, that experience would tend to make one more 'self-sufficient' in later life I suspect!!!
Barry |
Yep, I learned that you should never drink (sea water that is) 
Bob Durrell
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