2008... A fish camp that just keeps growing!
Photo by Terry Hanson, pilot: Glenn Mitchell
1971... Notice the wave patterns in the above two photos? That much hasn't changed!
1974 2006
Springtime at second in 1975
These photos from 1972. Most of the photos on this page are courtesy of Jaime Adkins
who let Juan y Juan scan his old photo book. A very special "thank you"!
Old Fish processing Plant on Left and current site. Chino use to work here as a young boy and when the plant closed down, a lot of that material you see went to build his home.
Another view of the plant on the left and the current site on the right. Back then, they used the Amphibious "Ducks" to bring the catch to the processing area. Both photos of the plant were taken in 1961 and are from the Howard Gulick collection. They are used with permission. If you're interested in more of his very old photos from the Baja Peninsula , click here. There is a ton of great stuff!
Above dates unknown at this time. Photos by Jaime Adkins
Ensenada 1907 (left) and 1957 (right)...ok, it was a fish camp at some point!
San Felipe 1951 (left) and San Francisquito 1959 (right)
Tortugas Bay 1955 (left) and Camalu 1955 (right)
Bay Of Los Angeles 1952 (left) and Buena Vista 1957 (right)
La Paz 1949 (left) and in 1952 (right)
Loreto 1957
Cabo San Lucas 1953
Most of these photos are from the Howard Gulick collection. Used with permission.
South of the Border Fun in 1910
Traffic picked up in 1925
Back then, getting to our little town was quite a trip. Today's road trip from Tijuana can take 16 to 20 hours depending on which road you take. Just like back then, heading south was a lot more fun than coming back. For a look at the current border conditions and wait times click here.
No Border Fun in 2007. If you want a live action, webcam shot of this, simply click here
Click here for the "Last Stand In Tijuana". Pretty funny stuff!!!
Going south in 1961!!!
Besides the Church, Glenn Mitchell's house and Mark Atkinson's pad for his palapa were the only structures out on Gringo Hill. Building a home back then was a 3-5 year job as materials were extremely difficult to bring in (they still are, but the process isn't as hard).
Twenty two years later in 2007
Second Point before the Cantina was built (photo by Anonymous...thanks!)
Anyone with information about the date of the aboved photo, please let us know. Even the lighthouse at third was not installed.
2007
Low tide at zero point in 1974
We don't think so. The town was so hard to get to, that they use to land airplanes on the beach at low tide before the airstrip was built in town (now closed).
Low tide at zero point in 1997
It really doesn't seem like much has changed in almost thirty years later from the above picture thirty years later...
Mid-tide at zero point in 2002
2007
October 1975
"Nice shorts Juan!!!" This is a recently re-discovered classic photo of Juan y Juan checking out the Real Estate and Playa action in 1975. Notice the old station wagon below the cliff between dos Juan's... yes, it's a Rambler!
Juan y Juan: Just a couple of good guys with a few bad habits.
June 2006
"Goofy Hats Juan!!!" Same location, thirty one years later. Believe it or not, Club Juan y Juan is located thirty feet from this photo...who knew thirty-one years later that dos Juan's (who are now are a little older and wider...oops, wiser) would still be surfing, fishing and now, hanging with the kids at the same spot ... but in the "Bitchin Kitchen Garage"!!!!
Did you notice the same Rambler station wagon behind and below Juan's butt??? You can barely see the rusted top of the old classic...now that's true Mexican recycling!
"The Discovery" issue February/March 1976
Surfing Magazine article from 1976 when San Somewhere was first published and received national exposure.
Click here to read the whole story. Special thank you to Nick and Madeline who supplied the original magazine
that this was scanned from. Gosh, they even had a bar code on the cover back then. Very progressive!
1981. All the road cut-outs at second and third were scheduled to be access roads for homes.
Photo from Terry Hanson's collection.
Around 1984-1986
A clearer view of town taken in 1985 from Jaime's airplane. There are no homes on "Gringo Hill" and as usual, no swell from the south. A few more homes had been built in town, but it was still lacking vegetation. It seems that the fishermen had finally discovered the little fishing village as well, by the increasing number of boats by "Panga Beach"!