Negril Guides

The cover of the 1997 guide is of the Royal Palm Reserve. I believe that the plan to harvest peat from the morass for energy was put to rest permanently and the environment was protected as manifested in the Reserve.Attachment 21170.

Between when the 96 guide went to press and when the 97 guide went to press the Pickled Parrot advertisement dropped mention of the beach location.
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And the most interesting milestone I would think for boardies is the first mention of the internet in the guides. It had already become much easier to get a phone call out by 1997 but a new era was just beginning for Negril. URL's were so unfamiliar to the publishers that a typo was not picked up. You all will recognize the domain. Would love to here about this early era from Rob on this thread.
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Great stuff! I'm really enjoying this thread. I love reading about places that existed before my time.

I'm guessing that this free guide is different than hardcover guides found in hotel rooms that say "PROPERTY OF HOTEL - DO NOT REMOVE". (I once got billed $50 because my wife took a Puerto Rico guide book from a hotel in San Juan.) I'm surprised I haven't seen these free guides around.

i booked my trip for feb 26 through Negrilonestop.com and i posted a photo of myself standing in front of Jennie Westmoreland's "Jennie's Favourite Cakes" in 1981. That was the first time i had been to Negril and was the first time I had sampled the "Special Cake " for 50 cents US

Many thanks to Scant for posting an earlier guide then I have ever seen. If anyone else out there has any guides that havnt been posted yet, particularly the ones I listed earlier in the thread as not part of my collection PLEASE post. I will be continuing to post from my collection...I just havnt gotten around to it yet.

To Mike D...these are free and not like the hard cover books in some hotels. I havnt seen anything newer then 2008. There was a sighting mentioned of a guide in Rooms, but no date was mentioned. Here's a few more scans and brief commentary.

The 2001 guide:color photo on the cover of a fairly wide depth of beachAttachment 22128

From this guide I also copied some non-advertising infoAttachment 22129Attachment 22130

The 2002 guide cover is a color photo enhanced with paint credits to Janos Beyer and Roberta Raigh Pryor
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Here is a photo of the Pickled Parrot bar
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If anybody wants to make a fun T-shirt for boardies I would be happy to share a high res scan of the Picked Parrot Logo
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The most recent one I have is from 2011