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Marlin & Mariachis. Ten years ago the only way to get to Vallarta (the In name for it was by boat or on burro-back over the Sierra Madre mountains...
Acapulco is beginning to look like Miami Beach; Cuernavaca is more for the old folks. Where is the In place for tourists in Mexico this year? It is Puerto Vallarta, a remote little fishing village midway up the Pacific Coast, where everyone is going to warm his bones and taste what the travel folders call the "real, unspoiled Mexico...
...dugout canoes; farmers marketed vegetables in the central plaza. A couple of temperamental diesel engines generated electricity to light the four-block bay-front promenade, and the townsfolk got along fine without a proper bridge across the Cuale River that split the town. Pedestrians took a swinging footbridge, and Vallarta's five taxis just sloshed across the shallow stream...
...fishing was great-leaping sailfish and 400-lb. black marlin. The daytime temperature was in the 70s; in the evening, cooling breezes blew down from the mountains, and the mariachi music lasted far into the night. In the early 1950s a dozen or so Americans went to live in Vallarta. Friends came to visit-and hurried back on their own. Before long, Mexicana Airlines started flying in DC-3s, then DC-6s daily from Mexico City and Los Angeles. The boom...
...Vallarta, a 140-room luxury hotel will be open soon, and there is even a Dairy Queen abuilding...