This Is How Los Cabos Looked Before and Now
This Is How Los Cabos Looked Before and Now
This is how Los Cabos looked before and now tells two completely different stories. One is raw, quiet, and almost unrecognizable. The other is the destination the world knows today. These photographs sit exactly on that line.
Land’s End Before the World Showed Up
The first image shows Land’s End from the air in the early era. The Arch is there. The sea stack formations are there. Lover’s Beach sits almost entirely empty behind them. A handful of sailboats. The raw Palmilla coastline stretching north. No towers. No marina. Just the tip of the Baja peninsula exactly as nature left it.
The Cannery That Built This Town
The second image shows the docks of Cia. de Productos Marinos in Cabo San Lucas. Workers load burlap sacks on a wooden pier. That pier stood exactly where the marina would eventually be built. For decades, this was Cabo’s economy. Not tourism. Not real estate. Fish. Most visitors arriving today have no idea this town ever existed in that form.
The Marina, Freshly Born
The third image was shot from the rocky hillside that would become Pedregal, one of Cabo’s most coveted addresses. The marina basin is freshly carved out. Construction equipment is still visible. The slips are barely filled. The town below is small and quiet. The Pacific opens up beyond it, and not a single resort tower is in sight.
Solmar Before Anyone Else Arrived
The fourth image looks out from the hills above toward Solmar Beach. The Solmar Hotel sits small and solitary at the base of the rocks, one of the very first hotels on this Pacific-facing stretch. The beach is enormous and almost entirely empty. No beach clubs. No crowds. Just that relentless Pacific surge and miles of open sand.
Anyone who knows Solmar today understands how dramatically that scene has changed.
Those Who Stayed
This is how Los Cabos looked before and now, and the distance between those two versions is the entire story. We are building one of the most extensive collections of vintage Los Cabos photography anywhere. These images are part of our upcoming book, Those Who Stayed, a narrative history of Los Cabos and the Baja peninsula unlike anything published before.
Do you have vintage Cabo photographs? The best of what we receive may find a place in the collection. Drop them in the comments or send us a message directly.
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