The Tijuana Story (1957) - feat. James Darren & Robert Blake
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- April 1956, Tijuana, Mexico, a den of sex and drugs, as schoolteacher Alberto Rodriguez (William Fawcett) stumbles into the office of El Sol newspaper, asking to see the paper's crusading editor, Manuel Acosta Mesa (Rodolfo Acosta). Alberto has been badly beaten by the local crime syndicate for telling the police that syndicate employee Miguel Fuentes (William Tannen) was selling drugs on school grounds.
After Alberto collapses and is rushed to the hospital, Manuel goes to confront Peron Diaz (Paul Newlan), the local crime lord who operates out of a nightclub fronted by American Eddie March (Robert McQueeney). When Manuel demands that Peron pay Alberto's hospital bill, the crime lord's thugs attack him. Eddie, his conscience shaken, helps the injured Manuel out of the club. To silence Manuel, Peron approaches Reuben Galindo (Michael Fox), the owner of ^El Sol , and offers to launch a lucrative ad campaign in the paper if Manuel will tone down his editorials.
After Galindo informs Peron that Manuel's contract allows him complete editorial control, Peron makes a sinister threat against Galindo's family. Soon after, a group of American teenage boys comes to Tijuana looking for a good time. When Mitch James Darren), one of the boys, sees Linda Alvarez (Joy Stoner), the young woman who works as Manuel's secretary, waiting for her bus, he makes a pass at her. Linda slaps him. Later, at Eddie's club, one of the bar girls lures Mitch into buying some marijuana. At home that night, Eddie begins to reevaluate his business relationship with Peron and confides to his pregnant wife Liz that he needs the gangster's financial backing.
Mitch returns to Tijuana to apologize to Linda and the two begin to date. When Mitch's drowned body washes up on some rocks, Manuel blames the syndicate for his and Alberto's deaths and vows to bring down Peron and his men. After Galindo buys out his contract at El Sol , Manuel uses the money to fund El Imparcial , a paper dedicated to reform, and appoints his son, Enrique Acosta Mesa (Robert Blake), as co-editor. When the syndicate uses violence to intimidate the paper's advertisers, the California papers rally behind Manuel.
Eddie and Liz speed toward the border, with Peron's thugs in pursuit. After Peron and his thugs force Eddie at gunpoint to pull over, Eddie tackles the criminals, sending one of the thug's pistol flying into the brush. As Peron and his men beat Eddie, Liz retrieves the weapon and orders Peron to leave. Vowing to tell Manuel all that he knows about the syndicate, Eddie returns to Tijuana with Liz. In the next issue of El Imparcial , Manuel reports that he has a complete list of syndicate members and will deliver it to the Legislative Hearing on Crime in Mexicali. Before he can testify, however, Manuel is slain while standing on his own front porch. At Manuel's funeral, Galindo rallies the mourners to rise against the syndicate and clean up Tijuana. In the next issue of El Imparcial , Enrique issues a call for reform.
A 1957 American low budget film-noir crime B-Movie directed by László Kardos, produced by Sam Katzman, written by Lou Morheim, cinematography by Benjamin H. Kline, starring Rodolfo Acosta, James Darren, Robert McQueeney, Jean Willes, and Robert Blake. Susan Seaforth Hayes's debut screen appearance.
Produced on the quick to take advantage of the news cycle, by producer Sam Katzman, which means poor production values, one-take performances and sensationalized dramatics. This marked character actor Rodolfo Acosta's only starring role.
James Darren, "Gidget" (1959), and Robert Blake, "Baretta", Mickey in "The Little Rascals & Our Gang" both appear in another lesser-known B-Noir, Fred F. Sears' "Rumble on the Docks" (1956).
This fifties semi-documentary style gritty crime thriller "ripped from the pages of todays headlines" purporting to expose the sin, crime, vice and corruption of some major city, was narrated by journalist Paul Coates, who broke the original story. The film opens with Coates offscreen describing Tijuana in 1956 as the "sin town of the world." He explains that the Tijuana newspaper man, Manuel Acosta Mesa, was the only person willing to wage war against the "vice lords." Coates, a television personality and reporter for the Los Angeles Mirror-News, then appears on screen and gives a brief history of Acosta Mesa's paper El Imparcial, and describes the paper's campaign against the forces of organized crime in Tijuana, a campaign that began in April 1956 and ended with Acosta Mesa's death on July 31, 1956.
Manuel Acosta Mesa was a journalist and editor of the newspaper El Imparcial who was shot to death on July 26, 1956 at his home in Tijuana. A year later Manuel Duenas was given a six year sentence for his involvement. No other suspect in the case had been publicly named by authorities.
The anti-drug stuff is unintentionally comical. Far from a great film, it is entertaining and well made for a low-budget film and worth seeing.
Im from Tijuana,when i went to New York City .I was also very sick from the bad food i ate!
Did you go to a Manhattan restaurant? Not talking not talking about chip places.
A very good lesson in how corruption takes hold when good men are afraid to fight back.
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@@DonaldPBorchersOG Thanks for posting this movie! I never knew it existed.
U.S. corruptions reaches all over the world Hippocrates
I agree. But he wasn't up against a syndicate of "unarmed ambassadors", he should have had a gun or a personal body guard (if not for him, at least for the safety of his family).
Bad men fight back..
When you see the newspaper printing press rolling at the beginning of a movie, you know it’s going to be a good.
you got that right....
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When I saw 10 cent goof balls I knew it would be good.
@@UQRXDlol😂
@@UQRXDthey have the best dope in Tijuana.
I like watching this old movies. Alot of nostalgia. How times have changed so much and not so much 😃
Yes a lot has changed but the 2 lane border crossing hasn't. Not long ago I saw that it was reduced to a single Lane and you must plan for an all day venture just to cross to usa.
In 1956 my friend had a '51 Mercury full tuck & roll interior installed over night in Tijuana. The shop was basically a back alley garage. The upholsters sewed Naugahyde while we sowed oats. Picked up the car in the morning then drove back to Pendleton. I can't remember what it cost but couldn't haven't been more than a Cpl. could afford. Thanks for the time machine memories.
What a great movie! The Syndicate was pre-Cartel and through the years many Journalists have been murdered.
Both worlds coming together, & putting together a piece of jewel of a movie!
Where is James Darren or Robert Blake for that matter
I was 5 yrs. old in 1957, when my father took me to Tijuana. I can still remember how sick I was for days after.
😂
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Don't drink the water! Ooops! Too late!
Don't drink the water.
Dont eat tacos ha ha ha !!!!
I always enjoy films about writers. This one is very good.
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What a cast, americans & next door neighbors mexicans some of the best actors of the golden era, Manuel Acosta acting real name Rodolfo Acosta. Quality Classic Movie!
Varreta😂❤🎉
Really enjoyed this old movie. I visited Tijuana in the late 90's and it wasn't much different than in the movie. Good seeing William Fawcett, he was a veteran actor and was in the TV Western series FURY. Thanks.
The good old days in Mexico. Now everyone is on the take. Good movie 👍
I'm sorry I see James Darren is in this
I have a souvenir photo of my grandparents, sitting on that same souvenir burro and cart thing, in around the time this film was made. He was still in the Navy after WW1 WW2 and Korea.
All those classic cars, could be Cuba today.
So true. Welcome.
Or Wilmington calif
I visted tj last week. No homeless downtown revolution. I think downtown San Diego more dangerous. Homeless everywhere.
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They are there I've seen them over by the autobuses. People from other countries mostly that get stuck in Mexico
Tj is a dump
@@cornstar1253 full shit hole. Saved $2500 on a bogis crown a san Diego dentist said I needed. Worth the shit show.
You don’t have to go to Tijuana to see this anymore. Just go to Los Angeles instead. Luv the movie it’s more of a documentary
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At this point, LA is worse
@@johnnyx9892 wont argue with that
or any major u.s city .
@@reubenblanco3021 oh no 😰
The way they pronounced "angeles" in the name Los Angeles is enough to make me shout "STOP MISPRONOUNCING that city name! You're butchering it! It sounds horrible."
I used to go to Tijuana a lot in 1965 when I was a Marine stationed in San Diego. We had to go down there at night with a half dozen guys to keep from getting arrested for stupid things like J-walking. There was safety in numbers.
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Description: goes into detail of movie action and then includes the Wikipedia information of the murder of Mexican journalist Manuel Acosta Mesa that inspired the movie. YIKES, and I think South Florida sucks, and it sure does, also yikes.
Great flick, they don't get any better then this😂
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I was surprised to here her say that her father worked in the copper mines in Sta. Rosalia where the Mine was going to be closed is now back in full operation and shipping the ore to the East to be processed. AND was in the news last week where hurricane Hildabeast took a dump on this thriving small mexican town & turned it into a River of bolders. VIDEO posted on Utube. WOW ! GOOD MOVIE VIVA LA TRUTH.
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Ha,ha,ha
70 years later, it’s now a Cartel.
Not just goof balls and junk. It’s fentanyl, also.
Wonderful. And partly made possible by our own government.
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All of the same things existed in the US I just love the way that they characterize Mexico and Mexicans if it wasn’t for the fact that Americans wanted all of this a lot of it would not even happen
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Yes, all the same things exist in the US & many movies have been made about crime/corruption in those cities.
But this movie is featuring Tijuana, not NYC, Chicago or New Jersey.
And it’s very apropos today, with all that’s going on in Tijuana & the whole of the Mexican republic.
Mexico is a mess today with all the cartels running rampant.
Especially in Tijuana. At least 20 deaths a day
James William Ercolani & Michael James Gubitosi.... 2 great actors
Thanks for posting this…
Look at it now. Those days seem like a fairy tale world, compared to todays.
Some things never change!
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Even in those days they exaggerated Mexico the same as they do today funny (Marihuana) the real name and spelling, pot is used much more in the U.S. then in Mexico
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I live on the oaxaca coast, everybody local smokes weed.
Exactly!!!!!
And in Mexico, they line up the chopped off heads of those who cross the cartel.
Don't give us that "it's worse in America " bullsht .
Mais um filme ótimo pra recomendar desse canal que não me arrependo de ter me inscrito! Obrigado pela postagem!
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Gusto Los piticulas de Mexicanos o ..😮
Mexico. The more things change, the more they remain the same
A very good movie and a very great cause. The entire world can use a Reboot of this Ideology in 2023.
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And now you know why we have no more drug syndicates operating today.
Thank you, this is great.
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In 1968, in Tijuana, a salesman whispered to me if I wanted to buy some firecrackers.
I was surprised around that time that deep in Latin America, away from the United States, many cars had Bobby Kennedy bumper stickers.
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Is that James Darren the singer?
Yes. He was both: www.imdb.com/name/nm0201626/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Or Jimmy Darrock as he was known back in the good "old" days of "THE FLINTSTONES".
You might be thinking of Bobby Darin.
@@eeddieedwards3890 I thought it was Dash Riprock
@@jimdep6542 he was a singer too. “Goodbye Cruel World.” Great voice. Lousy song
I love these old movies showing old days of ...wait TJ means Aunt Jane? What..😅...since I live in San Diego.
Si era la última posta,del viejo camino kumiai de la mina de oro EL ALAMO, al puerto de SAN DIEGO .
My Argentinian friend says it all. The people are savages. But nowadays you're not allowed to say it. Best thing he ever did was leave South America.
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The whole country? The whole continent? Everywhere south of the Rio Grande?? Trying comparing that to SanFran, Baltimore. Care to clarify?!
the USA is as savage as africa.
I guess the good people of Tijuana didn't have the will to finish traveling the path to decency as was predicted at the the end of the movie. Neither does California.
Border towns in every country are havens for criminal trafficking. Condescension is an ugly look.
Back when Marijuana was illegal !
He got so high off one joint that he crashed into cars and didn't remember it? 🍃🌿
History repeats itself....
The only thing that changes is the Faces and Names 🤔😢. ✌️🇲🇽💚🤍❤️
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"I need a couple of sticks" Hmmmm...that is what they called joints in the late 50's? Interesting
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"Reefer sticks"
2006 visited TJ . Had a smashing bar , were they knew I was not a Gringo . Got mugged once , and sleeping in a park got coppers to read my passport . They took me to hospital . 3 mths later gave my money to a kid in a cart over Rio Grande . Had 30 Dollars left to pay to for taxi from LA to airport . I am Welsh ! . Great flick . ❤ Thanks . Dave
10¢ for goofballs, cheap narcotics. I miss the '50s.
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WTF are Goofballs?
@@makevelicustoms Barbituates - downers.
Coke (a-cola) was only a nickel.
NOW ...THE CARTELS WOULD KILL HIM ON VIDEO...
"You'll find all girls you want in a cabarette" and the guys saying "Los Angle-eez" cracked me up.
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I really liked this movie! Man, I wish it was in technicolor!
There is a lot in this movie than meets the average person’s eye.
There is more truth in fiction than in non-fiction.
A commodity is convertible into money and money becomes profit and a syndicate is just a sales organization that uses force.
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These days, downtown Tijuana is cleaner than downtown San Diego...
Bars around 1980 when I did some serious Navy boozing were open 24/7, selling liter bottles to anyone day or night, wasted or nearly so. You could go in at sunset, pass out at the tables, wake up and start drinking again, when it was dawn and time to get back to the boat at 32nd St. NS. The bar was called Corona -- and that was all they sold.
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Nunca se limpió Tijuana. Así sigue o peor.
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eres loco El EEUU es MAS peor porque parace cuba.
Club Adelita was the very best & reasonably priced
Always clean rooms & attractive gals💃🏾
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are you an oldtimer?
Those gangs seem mild compared to today's cartels.
Reality is usually different.
Movies & TV often portray females as caring, loyal and honorable beings...
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live in Mexico for 45 years, you don't see a bunch of Gangs in Mexico that's in gangland U.S.A. and I have never seen a cartel war, the U.S. pushes this hype, for general crime the U.S. is more dangerous then Mexico, don't you watch TH-cam or you just watch fake exaggerated $$$click video about the cartels, the cartels don't control are run Mexico a U.S. fairytale, must Mexicans as the thousands of American living in Mexico never came in contact with the cartel UNLESS your involved in that life and most drugs don't come from Mexico, there's 100s of illegal drug labs in the U.S. (look it up) Tijuana is not the most dangerous (coined by the U.S.) its the most visited city in the world (look that up to)
cartels keep bad americans out of mexico
Manuel's tie!
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How did this not get riffed by MST3K?
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I remember the Los Angeles Mirror.
1:00 Jai Alai still there. 1:05 Sans Souci and the infamous Bambi Club son No Mas. They were still around in the 90's. Oh wait, how do I know that? 🤪🤪🤪
Very Interesting. 🎥🎥🎥
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@@DonaldPBorchersOGAnd thank you for posting! I love the blacks and whites. 🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥🤍🎥
This movie is a hollywood fairytale. Tijuana is as bad today as it ever was.
THE TOURIST TRADE IN MEXICO HAS SUFFERD SO MUCH BECUZ OF CRIME THEY EVEN TELL YOU WHERE NOT TO GO A BIT LIKE SO LONG AS YOU DONT GO OUT OF THE HOTEL GROUNDS YOU WILL BE OK
LOL, tourism is not suffering its only growing and its nonsense you cant go of the hotel grounds, that the first thing I do becouse the better duals are in the local areas, lived in Tijuana for 45 years I go where I want, when I want anytime I want and Mexico is not going to die without tourist "its a worldwide tourist destination" American are invading Mexico to live a better economic life, go to the border and see all the U.S. plated cars crossing the border, during Covid many tourist spots restaurant ect. where closed, did Mexico dry up and blow away? no it didn't and crime and the cartels are way exaggerated, most of the murders in Mexico are for people involvement in that stuff, few American are murdered in Mexico and most believe for there involvement in criminal activities drugs and cartel stuff, if not involved your fine, an American has a better chance of being murdered in a U.S. dangerous city, then Mexico, there's a lot more to Mexico then tourist and stop blaming your American criminals and gang bangers on south of the border
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I've known people who have been kidnapped in Mexico.
They were families, scuba divers, and business people.
None were involved in any criminal behavior or heavy partying.
Yum , James Darren
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can u pls uplod full HD
No Place To Land 1958 mari blanchard
I'd love to, but sorry. I don't have the rights to that one. Thanks for the visit!
The film poster for it in the thumbnail looks like an Orrie Hitt book cover. Maybe the same artist.
Too much clothes for Orrie Hitt. I think Warren King was the name of his artist. Thanks for the visit!
Good Luck Baja California and Tijuana
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They have the best dope in all Ti -Juan-na . Grass Ass
I wasn't really aware James Darren was a thing before starring in the Time Tunnel series. But I knew he played in one of those dumb early 60s beach movies.
Oh, he was a big name before that. Almost 2 dozen features & on TV he was already on THE FLINTSONES: www.imdb.com/name/nm0201626/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
@@DonaldPBorchersOG OK, I forgot "Guns of Navarone"
@@hhvictor2462 Let No Man Write My Epitaph [1960] as well.
Un gran lugar para hacer negocios, pero intenta conseguir una cebolla decente.
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Guess it didn't work out.
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In "Baretta" Robert Blake's character stakes out a place for WEEKS; that was receiving Crystal Meth from South of the Border.
You don't need Crystal meth from Mexico, there was illegal drug labs in the U.S. as there is today (look it up)
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o Whauuu and where still fating the corrupcion in T.J...Thanks fore the movie
Oh no! Not Acosta Mesa again!
He always gets his man!!
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Your so welcome,I enjoy these old films the best,in fact I was born in 57 lol
Today the USA is the border between Mexico and Canada.
Actor Robert McQeeney, who plays Eddie March, looks somewhat like a thinner, blond, Elon Musk. Robert Blake and James Darren as brothers is perfect casting. Jean Willes saves the day! Cool flick.
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Robert McQueeney co-starred in 'The Gallant Men.'
@@user-zy9yo8if5s Yes, I remember watching "COMBAT" growing up but never even heard of "THE GALLANT MEN" until recently. Being a big "COMBAT" fan I will seek out "THE GALLANT MEN".
@@eeddieedwards3890 Yes, Combat! was my favorite show when I was a young kid too.
STILL THE SAME HELL HOLD"
George e stone a great actor never got the attention
فليم رائع جميل جدا شكرا لك 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Oh lord. Three minutes in and they start with a lie. Tijuana doesn’t mean “aunt Jane”. “Tia Juana” would. It’s missing an “a”. Who wrote this script? Jeeze.
The name is derided from a similar Native American word from the regional tribes
Roger that.
Times changed but things, haven't. Tijuana the untamed.
Tijuana has always been a pit. I hated going there on vacation with my family. I always got sick.
Tijuana trot trots!
Me too
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Ditto.
is because you are NOT Welcome in Tijuana,
Great dialogue. Campy as Hell. Problem is…at 5.19., why would there by a map of the U.S. on the wall in a Mexican building?
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"Wooden Pajamas after sprinkling them with Lead" (? )
Those 54 Chevrolet make me remember seeing people frying eggs on the hoods . I guess they used butter.
I grow'd up in Tijuana from mid 60s early 70
There were no disturbances, no killings, no crimes to report, no house fires,
The happiest days of my life.
On the late 70s Colombian drug start moving north, and central Mexico investors, in the mid 80 after Mexico city earthquake, central Mexicans moved north.
But the old wild west were the Mexican territories stolen from Mexico.
Thats why Mexico still is the wild west 😂😂😂
Thank you for sharing that. Yes, it's a shame how drug dealers have ravaged society. Thanks for the visit!
2:28. 3 Stooges ..body hitting the ground sound effect.
Ha!
Eddie looks like Elon Musk 😂
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queremos norona y ya
As of 1993 or so FUZZYLAND (at 1:16) was still there. I was stationed at the naval base in SD and a friend dragged me in there. Seriously, I wouldn't have gone in there on my own if you paid me. A whorehouse straight out of a Rob Zombie movie and not in a good way.
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You'll get a surprise like the guy getting slugged and robbed. Or worse. 😂
@@redtobertshateshandles Roger that. Thanks for the visit!
an American video and American actors
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Goofballs 🤪 $.10 per capsule? I’ll take a 53 foot trailer load😃👍🏼
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Παρακαλώ υπότιτλους στα ελληνικα ευχαριστώ πολύ
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1:50 My kinda town...oh wait
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If Marijuana had stayed the only problem Tijuana had.
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Manuel could have carried a booom stick, but today he wouldn't have a choice.
Dammit Toshio!
I wish I would’ve had a couple sticks before I watched this!
Smoked two sticks while watching.
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Revaluation avenue ah yes beautiful
"Mary wanna "
Now if they could just bring an end to the donkey show.
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Tijuana yessss.....cheap weed, tequila, women, trinkets and firecrackers, ...and car re-upholstery yessss!!☺️
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Has anything changed?
Yes, for the worst.