40 years later

[Piggymon]

I did a little looking around in the drawers and I found a couple more pictures of when I came upon Sir Paul McCartney back before he was an MBE, and family on a remote section of Negril beach around 1974.

[Piggymon]

Canoe out on the water with a guy paddling



Negril Beach at sunset. Still a long way to go to get to Red Ground and a cold shower


Rasta going down the beach road on a motorbike


The old West Indian Sugar Building


Tree house on the beach


Getting his stash together

[captaind]

Here's my canoe

[johng]

captaind,

What ever happened to OK Sam? I know he used to run a boat off the beach

[Piggymon]

Dinner!

[vivnyc]

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1977 or '78 at Mirage, in the garden

[Mike_D]

Lovin' all these vintage pics!

1977 or '78 at Mirage, in the garden

When you say "in the garden", do you mean that the Mirage use to have some property across the road from their current cliffside location (e.g. garden side), or just that there was a garden area on the cliffside property? Obviously the property looks very different today, but I'm trying to place where the picture was taken.

[Piggymon]

Here's my canoe

Real cool, Capt'n. It looks like the real thing and that is also a good looking spear gun too. I went out with Knocky on his canoe one morning. My only regret now is that I did not give him more money for the great time I had. I did not have much money, but Knocky had a wife and a couple little kids so he could have used what little money I did have more than me.

[vivnyc]

This photo was taken at Mirage in 1978. The woman is Sophie (Grizzle?) who now owns Charela. She was french. The young man was a traveller. At the time, Sophie had just bought Mirage from Lauro and Michela Grandi. The Grandis were from Italy. They built Mirage in the 1970s. Michela would teach yoga and meditation. This was the first year there was electricity on the West End. The Grandis moved back to Europe and never returned to Jamaica. 1978 was my second year visiting Negril. I later returned and Mirage had a french restaurant on the cliff-side of the road.

[captaind]

Only 35 yrs ago

Dodds, Love I and me on Hobie race day. I'm the race committee




The race