Goodbye to the corner of Puerto Viejo in Olas Altas, know the history here

Mazatlán. – Of the place we knew as Puerto Viejo, only the memories and nostalgia of this corner with Paseo Olas Altas and Sixto Osuna will remain, because from this moment on you will only find rubble and machinery after its demolition.

There were more than three years of controversy, between dimes and diretes if it should collapse or not, if it had the permits, what will it become from this moment? What memories do we keep of this old restaurant?

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Enrique Vega Ayala, chronicler of Mazatlán, mentioned that, in itself, the famous “Puerto Viejo” has at least 30 years as a seafood restaurant-bar.

Its beginning was in the 90’s, and it was the main meeting point between the foreign community and the Mazatlán community.

From time to time, local rock bands were presented until mid-2021, when they closed permanently, after the announcement of their demolition to build a condominium tower.

“El Puerto Viejo was a restaurant in the area, which over time became popular, especially in the area, but also and even more so when they began with the demolition announcements… It must be from the 80’s or 90’s, it doesn’t have as much , but it was a space that became emblematic after the controversy,” he said.

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Ayala Vega remembers that before the “Puerto Viejo” there was another restaurant, but not for seafood, but for tacos, the one called “Salsas el General”, by Francisco Farriols, very crowded and that lasted other years longer than the one that millennials and intellectuals they met

Before these two restaurants, the corner of Paseo Olas Altas and Sixto Osuna has another story, it was a housing space, apartments, even, in old photographs it goes unnoticed, being just a vacant lot that was simple next to buildings like the Hotel Freeman or the Hotel Belmar.

“They were buildings, family houses, something common, it did not have, historically, relevance or a social or business sense, but yes, during the 80’s the high wall that overlooked the Old Port, was the space for a mural by the painter Carlos Bueno which was called ‘Las Lloronas’”, he said.

Carlos Bueno was a cartoonist, painter, and muralist who helped launch the Chicano art movement in the 1970s as the co-founder of Self-Help Graphics & Art.

He was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, he lived for a time in the United States, but, like all foreigners who set foot in Mazatlán, he stayed here until his death in 2001.

What did they sell in the Old Port?

In addition to beer, you could taste the traditional shrimp and saw ceviches; aguachile, oysters and also sitting on the sidewalk, watching the sunset from old Mazatlán.

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