Back in the day

A foto I've never seen before. Hotel Melaque back in it's prime

Melaque Sunset

I originally posted this foto back in 2007 on this blog but hadn't thought about it lately until people started using it on Facebook ..... the latest being Canal 10. In 2007 I lived in Melaque so was on the beach a lot more than now. I also had a good Sony camera then.  ................ Just realized I've been using it on Facebook as my background ;)

A foto video from Jack Brock

A very nice video of about 200 fotos of the Melaque and Barra area

Casa Grande Hotel Melaque

Every now and then I search for info on the Casa Grande Hotel in Melaque that was destroyed in the 1995 earthquake. Just change your key-word on Google and you come up with a whole new set of info or pictures.

Anyway, a few days ago I came across the first foto below on enFotos.com. The caption says from the '60's but I've always heard it was built in the '70's. Then I remembered Blogger Steve sent me a foto dated 1970 and the hotel is considerably larger than the new picture.

I introduced the foto on TomZap and with many opinions (gotta love opinions), it was agreed it is the same building not long after it was constructed ... in the 1960's. We also found out that the hotel started out as Hotel Melaque, changed sometime in the '80's to the CoCo Club and ended it's life as the Casa Grande. I took the last foto today

1960's picture of the Hotel Melaque

1970 is still Hotel Melaque

Casa Grande bar bill

Current condition of the hotel

Melaque my home town

Nice little video from someone that lives here or used to ... not sure which. I am honored that they used some of my fotos.

Melaque Mirador

If you haven't been up to the Mirador lately you should give it a try. The road has been widened drastically but will get rough again with the summer rains. I assume widened for the large trucks heading up to the construction going on beyond the Mirador.

Very nice views from up top and as you can see it's still green which is rare this time of year. The Mirador is also a favorite 'Lovers Lane'

Mirador Road

View of Melaque

View of "Chicken Beach"

This is from TomZap's aerial Fotos of the coast
And the new construction