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Current status of Virgin of Guadalupe shrine/art? (near Cataviña)
I'm going thru old Baja photos and found this one.
Not sure what category to post this in. Does 25 years make it "historic"?
The photo was taken in 1993.
I'm wondering if anyone knows the status of this shrine/artwork of the Virgin, and/or could post a current photo of the area.
Is still in place the boulders?
Over the years I think it has been defaced with graffiti.
Maybe a fence was finally put up around it?
Thanks for any updates.
[Edited on 2-9-2019 by Whale-ista]
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MMc
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It was fine a couple of months ago. the shrine has been improved (maybe?). There was a bit of glass from the candles on the ground, mostly the same.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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Quote: Originally posted by MMc  | | It was fine a couple of months ago. the shrine has been improved (maybe?). There was a bit of glass from the candles on the ground, mostly the same.
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Thank you. The graffiti was getting pretty bad several years ago.
Hopefully it's been removed and the site is being maintained better.
\"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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Is this the original La Virgen along the old road or the moved to Hwy. 1 (a mile away) one?
I have many photos at the original taken over that past 60 years.
Here is Neal Johns' photo from Feb. 2003 at the original:
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what's the location of the new one?
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I took this photo a short distance off Hwy. 1, north of Cataviña, in the boulder field area.
The original image was likely on a transparency that I converted to a .jpg file. This was in the early/mid 90s, pre-digital camera era so the quality
is not great.
You can see the difference with photo quality with these images of vehicles from those days- a 4WD Mitsubishi wagon, circa 1994 (scanned from a
slide):
Replaced it with a 4WD Ranger in 1999 (image from digital camera)
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Km. 166.5
See the listings in my road log for the old and new La Virgin shrines... The Part 3 Log is posted in the Road Conditions forum.
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http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=55668&got...
For John Hiltons story about his visit to the shrine
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K |
Km. 166.5
See the listings in my road log for the old and new La Virgin shrines... The Part 3 Log is posted in the Road Conditions forum.
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how about a link?
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I will bump it up in that forum and of course, Today's Posts. I'm on my cell and copy and paste on my phone is not something I do.
Edit, on my PC so here's the link: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=91898
[Edited on 2-10-2019 by David K]
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MMc
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It's there, just off the road like its been for the last 10 plus years. If those that don't know where it is might not need to know. They ain't
looking around.
[Edited on 2-10-2019 by MMc]
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