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7 unusual facts about Tijuana


Baja Malibu

The beach is a popular tourist area in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan region and draws surfers from all over Southern California.

Caesar Cardini

Alessandro, who was called Alex in the USA, is reported to have been Caesar's partner in Tijuana, Mexico.

David ''D'' Barron

Barron Corona was killed on November 27, 1997 in Tijuana, Baja California during the attempted assassination of journalist Jesus Blancornelas.

Que viva la lucha

¡Que viva la lucha! is a 2007 film directed and produced by Gustavo Vazquez about Lucha libre in Tijuana, Mexico, considered to be a form of extreme lucha libre.

The production spanned two years as it followed emerging Tijuana wrestlers and their dual lives and encountered some obstacles.

Silvio Coucci

A New Yorker, in 1931 Silvio Coucci rode Thoroughbreds at Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico under contract with brothers John and George Coburn.

William B. Finnegan

Following its opening in December 1929, Finnegan was racing at Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico.


2003 Pan American Race Walking Cup

The men's 50 kilometres event was held one week earlier in Tijuana, Baja California, México, on 9 March.

Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright

Aidan Quinn as Charlie Wright: A U.S. banker who scams billions and flees to Tijuana

Alejandro Guido

Guido began playing for Club Tijuana's U-20 team on the 2012-13 season, but on August 22, 2012, Guido made his professional debut in a 2-1 victory over Celaya in a Copa MX match.

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Welterweight

The winner of those trials, Vanes Martirosyan (USA), qualified for the Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana.

California State Route 11

It will connect SR 905 and SR 125 to what is known as the Tijuana 2000 corridor that connects to Mexican Federal Highway 2D and Mexican Federal Highway 2 to Tecate, and Mexican Federal Highway 1D to Ensenada.

Colonia Buenos Aires

She first created a piece using a 1955 Ford Crown Victoria in Tijuana, then began to be interested in Buenos Aires after the 1997 incident.

Coronado Islands

in addition; The Coronado Islands correspond to the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Tijuana, which lie on the extremes of the municipality to the Pacific Ocean.

Dave Ekins

Dave Ekins (born 1932 in Los Angeles, California) is an American off-road racing pioneer having set the first Tijuana to La Paz timed run in under 40 hours aboard a Honda CL72 Scrambler in 1962.

FM broadcasting in the United States

In some "Twin city" markets close to the Canadian or Mexican border, such as Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, or San Diego, California and Tijuana, Baja California, commercial stations operating from those countries target U.S. audiences on "reserved band" channels, as neither Canada nor Mexico has such a reservation.

Francisco Ortiz Franco

Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco (1954 in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato – June 22, 2004 in Tijuana, Baja California) was a Mexican journalist, who was murdered after writing about drug trafficking.

Gerardo Yepiz

He describes Colosio—shot on live television in 1994, during a campaign rally in Tijuana--as the Mexican equivalent to John F. Kennedy.

Gilberto Landeros Briseño

General Landeros Briseño is second in command (under General Alfonso Duarte Múgica) of the second military region in Tijuana.

Herb Alpert's Ninth

None of Beethoven's Ninth actually appeared in the album tracks, but another classical work did - a medley of the tunes from the opera Carmen, centering on "Habanera", and also including "cameos" from some of the group's earlier hits - "Spanish Flea", "A Taste of Honey", "Whipped Cream", "What Now My Love", "Zorba The Greek" and "Tijuana Taxi" - worked into the track.

Howard J. Buss

As he neared high school graduation, Buss was recruited as a trombonist into the nationally known group, the Tijuana Brats. In the 3 years he performed with the band he appeared numerous times on national television programs including The Tonight Show, The Mike Douglas Show (multiple times), and The Jerry Lewis Telethon.

It's Gonna Work Out Fine

In the film, the song is dramatized after Ike Turner (played by Fishburne) proposes marriage to Tina (played by Angela Bassett) after Tina and their newborn was secretly carried out of the hospital by Ike and his band mates and the couple traveled to Tijuana, Mexico to get married, much to Tina's chagrin.

J. D. Hayworth

On March 8, 2013, it was announced that Hayworth would become the new co-host for the morning talk show on XEPRS-AM 1090 in Tijuana/San Diego.

John Valby

He also had a small role as a piano player in a Tijuana brothel in the 1983 film Losin' It, which featured an early performance by Tom Cruise.

Julius Wechter

He began his long and successful association with Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass when he played percussion on the Tijuana Brass's first hit, "The Lonely Bull", in 1962.

KVMD

It also reaches a good portion of Los Angeles, Orange and part of San Diego counties, but XETV-TV Tijuana/San Diego, which also broadcast digitally on channel 23, blocked KVMD's signal.

Los Dug Dug's

In 1964 Xippos Rock began a road trip from Durango to Tijuana and halfway through the trip,in the city of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, the name was changed to Los Dug Dug's, an abbreviation of the band's native city and state.

Millonarios Fútbol Club

As the 2012 Finalización champion, Millonarios qualified to 2013 Copa Libertadores, where it will play the second stage against Bolivian San José, Mexican Tijuana, and Brazilian Corinthians.

Mobile phone signal

This phenomenon, which is also common in other VHF radio bands including FM broadcasting, may also cause other anomalies, such as a person in San Diego "roaming" on a Mexican tower from just over the border in Tijuana, or someone in Detroit "roaming" on a Canadian tower located within sight across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.

National Off-Road Racing Association

The first event, the Mexican 1000 (1967), began in Tijuana, went through Ensenada, and finished in La Paz.

Nortec Collective

The song "Tijuana Makes Me Happy" is one of the soundtracks in 2006 FIFA World Cup video game and the title song of the feature film by the same name.

Pablo Aguilar

Pablo César Aguilar (born 1987), Paraguayan football defender who plays for Club Tijuana in the Liga MX (Mexican Primera División)

Panoptica

Roberto A. Mendoza , known as Panoptica, has been one of the figures in the Mexican electronic scene since the late 80s, founding bands like electro pos-industrial outfit Artefakto and in the late 90’s being part of the Tijuana based norteña-meets-techno Nortec Collective.

Roberta McCain

On January 21, 1933, she eloped to Tijuana, Mexico with a naval ensign, later to become four-star Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. in Caesar's Bar.

San Diego and Arizona Railway

In 1979 San Diego's Metropolitan Development Board (MTDB) purchased three portions of the SD&AE: from Plaster City to the border, from San Diego south of the border between San Ysidro. California, and Tijuana, Baja California, and from San Diego east to El Cajon.

Second Battle of Tijuana

At Mexicali the rebels split their forces in two, half of which marched for Tijuana under General Caryl ap Rhys Pryce.

The Donkey Show

Donkey show, a semi-fictitious sex show found in Tijuana, Mexico

The Face Is Familiar

Its theme song was a slightly-modified version of Brasilia, performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

Tijuana Crime Scene

Tijuana Crime Scene was a short-lived supergroup featuring members of Spoon, Hot Rod Circuit, The Golden Republic, The Anniversary and The Appleseed Cast.

Tijuana metropolitan area

The Tijuana metropolitan area, and in Spanish the Zona Metropolitana de Tijuana, is located on the Pacific Ocean in Mexico.

The census bureau defined metropolitan area comprises two municipalities: Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.

Tijuana Toads

Tijuana Toads is a series of 17 theatrical cartoons produced by DePatie-Freleng and released through United Artists.

Virtual crime

In 2002, a company called Blacksnow Interactive, a game currency exchange, admitted to using workers in a "virtual sweatshop" in Tijuana, Mexico to farm money and items from Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot.

XHBC-TV

Some of XHBC's resources and news reports are shared with sister stations XEWT-TV in Tijuana and XHS-TV in Ensenada; this is especially evident during the evening Notivisa newscasts.

Zona Río

The Río Zone is within the Delegación Centro, or Central borough, of Tijuana.


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