Joe Nash
One hell of a ride
By Catherine Dunn Original Print Publication: November, 2006
Joe Nash has an ivy plant that is 45- or 46-years old. It hangs by a window in his house in the Coloinia Guerrero, where he lives just down the street from the National Library and everyone in the neighborhood calls him Señor Nash.
Image:Luz Montero
Joe Nash was a larger than life member of the Mexico City community until his death in February 2007, at age 93.
Over lunch at an Italian restaurant on Bal- deras, Joe ("Mr. Nash was my father") smoked Marlboro 100s and nursed Negra Modelo out of a mug. He mentioned that the "bingo gals" from the American Benevolent Society come to his house every three months to play the game.
Joe is 93. He moved to Mexico in 1938 and he arrived on a bicycle. The Rockford, Illinois native pedaled against headwinds from Chicago to San Antonio, Texas, then took a week to rest. He convinced the Mexican Automobile Association to sell him a membership in case of an accident before he biked the rest of the way to Mexico City.
He left Mexico when he enlisted in the US military in December, 1941, and returned in 1948 to study anthropology at Mexico City College. In 1951 he started working for the English-language daily The News, where he worked until 1990. In 1952 he co-founded Democrats Abroad, which now exists in more than 70 countries.
Joe set a precedent for the Society of American Travel Writers conventions when the head of Mexican tourism offered him carte blanche to organize the group's 1962 gathering in Mexico.
He arranged a meeting between the president of Mexico and a convention delegation, along with 19 days of travel and conferences for 268 writers. The provinces had never hosted groups of writers that big before, he said.
"We had the front page of the Chicago Tribune travel section for four weeks in a row," he added.
Joe also won a major award from the Mexican Association of Travel Agencies. John F. Kennedy was the recipient the year before.
Before moving to Mexico, Joe worked as an assistant cook in Yellowstone National Park, wrote a Hollywood column from Los Angeles that appeared in Catholic diocesan newspapers, and researched the Galena, Illinois guide for the Federal Writers Project.
One of Joe's latest missions has been editing the 680-page, two volume memoirs of the Mexican diplomat Dr. Luis Weckman, an effort hampered by an accident in a Vips restaurant
in June 2005, when a busgirl ran into the back of his head with a deep tub full of dishes. He will wear a neck brace for the rest of his life, his throat is crooked and sitting at a computer irritates his muscles.
Still, he makes his rounds.
"I play bingo on Saturday because it keeps me alert," Joe said, getting ready to hail a cab home before the afternoon cloudburst. "Otherwise you don't win."
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