A ego game
in which you can only lose, because the more time you have, the
older you are!
The first white
person to discover Zihuatanejo was:
A. Christopher
Columbus
B. Shawshank
Redemption
C. Owen Lee
D. Leigh Roth
E. Timothy
Leary and Ram Dass
F. Lorene Wingard,
author of After the Children Have Gone
G. Joe L.,
owner of Coconuts
H. Elena Krebs
(deceased) founder of the A.S.P.C.A. Her son Enrique is our leading
ecologist/activist
I. Laura Hutton,
Jefferson Starship, Javier Hollander, etc etc.
Answers:
A. Colon never actually came to Z., but he did give it its real
name, Lorolandia
B.
If the film had been accurate, the protaganist would have had
to have arrived circa 1945 by boat.
C.
Owen Lee no longer remembers when he arrived --he alleges 1967.
But we know he's had a great time ever since. To be perfectly accurate, Owen has never
seen Zihuatanejo...he 'discovered' Playa Las Gatas and hasn't moved since.
D.
I arrived vis a vis Frommer's Mexico on $5.0 a day in 1962, a
wandering hippie taking a break from annual summer vacations in
San Miguel de Allende. I returned in '63, '64. Elena Krebs had
already established herself selling coffee and homemade banana
bread and a lending library.
This
postcard is still for sale. When I first arrived, there were no
paved roads, and military macaws were $50.00
E.
The co-pilots of the "Zihuatanejo Project" were living
in the Sotovento late sixties. I imagine Leary and Alpert were
the ones to most "get into" Zihuatanejo.
F.
Arrived 1964
G.
He alleges "30 years" ago, but he doesn't look nearly
that old. Anyway he's top dog now.Let's see 2001 minus 30 = 1970?
I.
Ask Pepe owner of Casa Sol and Luna. He had THE disco back in
the roaring 70's.
MORE
Ted
Tate, an expat from texas, lived in a small house at the end of
La Ropa for about 20 years he wrote a column every sunday for
the Mexico City News.
In
1980 he was about 55.
J.
Albert Ewald, a German leader in hardware came to Veracruz to
hunt. He saw the need for hardware and became a leading importer,
especially machetes. (He gave a special price to Villa and Zapata)
He built, in 1959, a house in the Almacen, which is now Casa
Rigoletti.
He held a party in which came Botero, Marquez, Alvaro Mutis (prizewinning
poet from Columbia, if you don't know the other two, go back to
Google.com) At that time it took 25 hours to arrive from Mexico
City.
Mutis
said: "Petatlan should be called Putalandia because the women
are selling their asses behind the palm trees on the main street.
All
these notables suffered from anarchniophobia, and when they got
to the house, which was in the jungle, they found a 'mother' alacran
which was allegedly about 1.5' s 1.5. Albert had to kill it with
a machate before they would enter the house.
According
to a yearly visitor, Zane Grey was here by boat on a fishing trip
1924; he heard about Zihutanejo and tried three times to find
it and missed. On the 4th attempt he anchored in the bay and found
women walking around with water jugs from the best pozo -- in
the Alamacen.
He
stayed because of this pozo for a month and wrote a book called
Fishing the Virgin Sea
At
this time all the locals fished by net. but since he was a famous
deep sea fisherman he showed them, vis a vis his boat, how to
do deep sea fishing.
Use
of word "allege" used not pejoratively but in my typical
legalistic way.
