"Jack Tyler" > wrote in message
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> the music is different from the standard mariachi's you see so much of
> around Mexico. The typical music there is called "banda" and includes
> big brass sections.... much faster... livelier. More oom pah pah. I
> didn't run across any food there that seemed to have a German
> influence, but I bet if I looked for it... it is there.
>
My mentor was an Early Bird of Aviation, a group founded by people who flew
before WWI like Beech, the Wright Brothers, Ely, etc. He took over a small
airliner in Mexico called LAMSA, Lineas Aereas Mineras S.A. which had been
started by flying to Toyotita, a mine some 15 days from Mazatlan by burro,
and only an hour away by Ford Trimotors. He stayed at a hotel that had been
converted from shipping warehouse to hotel and rat control were live boa
constrictors that roamed freely throughout the hotel. There is a lot of
history in Mazatlan. Plus the recurring theme that China traded with
Amerindians centuries before the Spanish conquest at a place called Aztlan,
which some people think is ancient Mazatlan. Could be.

Wayne