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Re: Farid Parhad
Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Thursday, July 14 2005, 8:02:43 (CEST)
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"..you mean tey ADDEc cobblestones? Have you been to Mismaloya...the beach just a bit north? There's a big fancy hotel there now but the small beach had a very old hotel made of bungalows once...if you've ever seen the Burton Taylor film of Tennesssee William's...Night of The Iguana"...it's set at that old hotel...when I first visited back in 85...I drove a Jeep down through Baja to La Paz and took the ferry to Puerto Vallarta...first time there...everything was Liz y Dick...Burton and taylor who together with John Huston made that sleepy town famous...anyway, I stayed the night at the Hotel Rio...on what was then the outskirts of town heading south...the next morning I drove out but stopped at Mismaloya for a beer...at the palapa bar there they have a TV set playing that film in a continuous loop...I'd seen it before but had my beer AND camarones as I watched...and there, in the scene where the bus drives through the town on the way to Mismaloya...Burton turns around to look back and you can see the sign and the Hotel...Hotel Rio...they haven't changed and probably never will. At that time the ruins of the hotel Burton and Ava Gardner played out their relationship was still there...now it's a huge eyesore...ah well."

Yes, I know the place very well. I have it all on video. The whole legend of Mismaloya. It's nothing but a restaurant now. Ok food, but not great. The scenery is nice though. I have also seen the original house Burton bought for Lizzy, near the Guadaloupe church in down town Vallarta. I have also taken the tour of their house, where all Lizzy's stuff is still there, like a shrine. I like driving through to North beach and look at all the villas. I will look for the the Rio next time. I wanted to see an iguana, but there weren't any around. Very disappointing.

My sister and her husband are building a pent house now at the Shangrila. I stay at Porto Fino, their current condo, right next to the Marriott. It's called the Marina district, and it's gorgeous. I wanted to buy a house and live there permanently, but when I talked to the agents, they told me they are building new condos in Barra De Navidad, which is where I would rather be. That's what I was asking you about, not Vallarta.

when I'm in Vallarta, my sister and her husband always beg me to cook for their parties, and their friends go nuts over my food. They want me to open a place 'cause there's no Hummous, Tabouli, Falafel, kabobs, and hearts of palm salads, (my specialties.) But I don't know. Seems like it would be awfully expensive to import bulgar and tahini and all the other ingredients to Vallarta.

Have you been to Le Cliffe? It's an awsome place, but the food is not great. This place has six tears hanging over the cliff, and you feel suspended in the air. But my favorite place is La Palapa. Excellent fine dining, great music, always the same band. They set-up the tables with white tables cloths in the sand right on the beach. You can sit barefooted in the sand, and you can eat and watch the sunset. At dusk they light the lanterns on the beach and you feel like you are truly in paradise. That's my kind of place.


"..vvery little growth. The little sandbar is still cute...and the huge luxury hotel sits across the laggon entrance...they still have water taxis to take you around...seafood restaurants along the sand...I met a pal down there whose family owns their own island in the lagoon...great playground. Melaque, the twin city just a couple of kilometers up the coast isn't near as charming. But they're all too crowded for me."

That's what I was asking you about. What are the prices like in Barra De Navidad.

>"maybe we can all meet for drinks on a beach somewhere. The place is a federal tortoise preserve so NO heavy development...so far I'm the only one...with miles and miles of pristine beach as far as you can see...ask Jeff."

I'm ready whenever you guys are. By the way, who is Jeff?


"...I'm not there now...I'm close to San Luis Obispo finishing up an Assyrian sculpture, not Christian,"

Nice DIG!

"that I've been working on for over a year...brought it with me from Mexico...it's something they can't cast down there...way too delicate and detailed...so I have to be here till I can hand it over to the foundry for casting...then I'm OUTTA HERE."

Where near San Luis Obispo? That's my old stompin' grounds.

"Oh my GOD!!! You're in TURLOCK!!!! Greater love hath no Assyrian than to spend a summer in THAT place."

I left L.A. in 96 and moved to San Francisco. I lived on a house boat in Oyster Bay Marina, South City. After a year of waiting on a list, I still couldn't find a place. Zero housing available. I was forced to look elsewhere and went looking in Half Moon Bay. Then my agent told me about a house on the San Lorenzo River in Felton, (Santa Cruz Mountains). I fell in love with this 100 year old house hanging over the river, surrounded by the Redwoods. My house was all windows, and I couldn't move from the sofa because everywhere you looked out you saw a painting. But the long, cold winters got to me. I'm an L.A. girl, so my parents and brothers talked me into moving to Turlock instead of going back to L.A. My brother came to help me drive back to Turlock, and as we approached the city limits, I said, "brother, how can you stand the smell?" and he looked at me like I was a nut and said, "what smell?".

Now the cows are gone and Turlock is over-built, with more coming from the Bay area. It's a good thing I bought my house 5 years ago, 'cause the new homes they are constructing here start at $460,000. that's Turlock, hot and expensive, even though they grow the food right here. Food was cheaper in L.A.

"Bingo?"

I couldn't play bingo if my life depended on it. I go to San Francisco or Berkeley for the weekends. I have some good friends there. I love the theater, and my son got the bug. He is an actor, stydied acting all his life. He graduated from the High School for the Arts in L.A. I took him to Geary theater a few weeks to see Edward Alby's "The Goat Or Who's Sylvia". Have you seen it yet? It's hysterical. Great cast.
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