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Table of Content The Solo Snowbird ........................................................... 5 M!Vol. 13, No. 1 Ghosts of Mazatlán ...........................................................6 M His life is changing the life of children ................................8 Publisher New Baseball Season is here! ............................................11 Guy Ismond Best Bets .......................................................................12 Copy Editor Business Directory ..........................................................15 Dana Lacy Amarisa Contributors Ana Fernandez While you are here… Olivia Guzón Simon Lynd You are going to notice some exciting changes while you are here. Like skyscrapers rising from the Malecón! And ex- citing new cultural events planned for the city. Even a new Photography futbol stadium. Everywhere you look, Mazatlán is changing. M! Magazine Staff But the ‘heart’ of a Mazatleco, that will never change. Proof is in the story of José and his wife Elizabeth. A couple Design whom have dedicated themselves for years to changing the Jorge Tirado lives of children in Centro Mazatlán. Olivia explains exactly what it was that changed the course of their lives to the Ad Sales benefit of so many. [email protected] You are going to notice exciting changes while you are here. But the one thing you will notice the most is that the kind, car- 669-240-7303 ing and compassionate heart of the Mazatleco never changes. Melchor Ocampo 1309 Centro, 82000 Mazatlán, Sin www.mmazatlan.com M! Magazine © is published monthly from October to April by Maz-Amor Media Group. On the cover All rights reserved 2019. Drones Mazatlán is a company created by combing the passion for technology with Total or partial reproduction of the contents the love of photography. Dedicated to is prohibited without publisher’s written video recording and aerial photography, permission. Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the publisher. Drones Mazatlán creates promotional videos for businesses and captures Printed by PB Press. memories of social events from a unique perspective. 2 M! Magazine October 2019 3 THE SOLO SNOWBIRD A Stranger in My Own Land How adapting well to living in another country By Ana Fernandez can have its drawbacks s I stepped out of the running while waving madly exit door, the blast of at them! (Yes, I really did that.) Ahot air quickly blanket- ed me completely, and imme- And it’s not just the rules diately I felt a joyous sense of up north that are frustrating having arrived home. But not to me, because many make home in the traditional sense sense and are for our safety; of the word, such as in the it’s that there are just too darn land where I was raised, but many of them, to the point more the kind of feeling that where nothing has been left one has in your heart when to common sense. It’s all been you feel at ease and complete. legislated! It’s the same sense as when On the flip side, it is rather one falls in love or at the birth nice, when sourcing out sup- of your child. Yes, that home. plies, that they are easily lo- Of course, this feeling cated and can be sent to you didn’t suddenly come over me in no time at all using depend- this year when I returned from able delivery and online re- two months visiting my family sources. Mexico is catching up up north. Not at all. Rather, it’s in that regard but it is a slow been growing exponentially process sometimes and my over the past eight years, be- techy side can get frustrated. coming stronger to the point So, knowing that you can rely where now, although I love on certain systems and pro- visiting my family and friends, cesses does have its value, I I don’t wish to spend any more won’t deny that. time away from Mazatlán than However, all in all, at the is necessary. moment I wouldn’t trade liv- Perhaps it’s that I have ing here for the conveniences adapted too well to my com- of up north. Of course, I’m still munity here. Learning to relatively “young” and who speak Spanish enough to con- knows what lies ahead as I verse with people certainly age (a common worry for the has helped. And I can truly majority of us foreigners living say that I enjoy the sounds here), but I am willing to take (some call them noises) of the my chances on a country and street. Traffic honking, people people that I have now come to love with all my heart. Viva announcing their goods for lawnmowers during the sum- that is exactly what I got when Mexico! • sale as they pass by, children mer; and the buzz of snow- I moved to Mexico. playing on the street, random blowers in winter. No dogs fireworks displays, Banda mu- barking, no children’s voices, Here I feel truly complete. sic till the wee hours and the no one having random parties And when I am in the north, Check Ana's web- occasional barking dog (ok, at their home. In some ways it I feel like a duck out of water. site at TheSoloS- maybe that one I don’t enjoy was an ideal neighborhood for When visiting, there are many nowbird.com”. so much). I live in the down- the many that enjoy absolute rules I have to remember. Like, Ana manages two town area, so it’s always alive peace and quiet. But for me, it only crossing streets at the very popular Face- with activity. felt like I was living in a ceme- lights because you can get book groups: Mazatlán Snowbird tery. I wanted to hear life going fined for jaywalking; or that Rentals (for landlords and tenants In my previous communi- the buses won’t let you board ty up north, the only sounds I on around me, even if I wasn’t to connect) and the Mazatlán Solo directly participating in it, and even if you are just ten feet Snowbird Activity Group ever heard were the whir of the away from the stop and are 4 M! Magazine October 2019 5 Finally, In 1921, the Sociedad Alemana de Beneficencia de Mazatlán that owned the land, donated it to the government with the sole purpose of creating a park. That’s right the ceme- tery, with all the abandoned bodies became what it’s known as Plazuela Ángel Flores, where an elementary school was also built. For many years, people who lived there didn’t know about the cemetery, until stories of ghosts walking through walls at night became more and more common. Eventually even some chil- dren at the Escuela Primaria Ángel Flores claimed to hear cries of abandonment in the halls. The Haunted Hotel One hotel in Mazatlan is well known for being the scene of the murder of Sinaloa’s governor, a place where people claimed to hear murmurs in the walls, a shotgun at night and a little girl crying. From 1920 to 1940, the Belmar Hotel was a spot for Hollywood stars who visited the port--John Wayne and Rita Hayward were just two of the many celebrities who stayed in what was at that point the first beachfront hotel in Mazatlan. No one would expect that in 1944, the governor Rodolfo T. Loaiza would be murdered during a carnival ball at the hand of a man called Rodolfo Valdés, better known as “El Gitano”. Since that fateful night, it was as if a curse had been set in the hotel: there are stories about a women drowning their children in the tub, two lovers who committed suicide, and many unexplained accidents. Even TripAdvisor has comments from people having hy- per-realistic nightmares, or hearing cries, screams and a shot- gun. ¿Do you dare check if this is true? By Olivia Guzón The Girl In the Taxi In 1996, a fatal accident took Mazatlan by surprise, when a ou might think you know Mazatlan quite well. Maybe bus with 34 passengers tried to get ahead of a train at the Santa you have been living here for years or visiting every year, Rosa Avenue railroad crossing. Legend has it that one of the vic- but believe me, when it comes to ghost stories the port tims was a student from Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, who Y took the bus that terrible night. doesn’t need to rely on traditional legends like “La Llorona” to give you chills. It has its own tales, and they are even more scary Many taxi drivers have claimed to be the one who pulled over than any other you might have heard before. ¿Why? Because in front of the university to give a ride to a young lady who tells they all happened here, in your town, your streets, and that them to take the Santa Rosa Avenue. According to the stories, means they might happen again… maybe to you. her face is pale with fear, and as the taxi gets closer to railroad crossing she gets more and more nervous. When the driver asks what’s wrong, she starts crying saying she wants to live, and just when the taxi crosses the railroad the woman screams and Dead People In the Park disappears. During the 19th century, the land located between Teniente These might be just stories, legends created for fun, no more Azueta street, Leandro Valle, Antonio Rosales and Genero Estrada than entertainment for a dark and spooky night. Or maybe, just street became a graveyard, known for being the last place of rest maybe, it might be that the dead are trying to tell us something… for non catholic people.

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