In the 1970s, when the author of these modest pages arrived at Santa Catalina Park as just another artist of portraits and caricatures, one of the many who came here attracted by the wave of prosperity, he was surprised to see the variety and richness of the people who teemed there. Then, reading the novel "Catalina Park" by Orlando Hernández and "Historias del Puerto de la Luz" by Leandro Perdomo, which feature so many popular characters from the recent past, such as "El Ratón," "El Mandarria," "Maestro Pepe," "Luciano," and so many others, suggested to me the idea of writing, in a tone of humor-sometimes dark, sometimes yellow-the true stories-with a touch of satire and suspense-of certain characters who, for one reason or another, stood out among the anonymous mass of tourists, sailors, and locals.From the 1960s to the 1990s, Santa Catalina Park, in the Puerto de la Luz neighborhood of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, was a celebrated meeting place in all tourist destinations. The prosperity of this free port, with its variety of goods and bargain prices, coupled with the impracticality of the Suez Canal, which forced ships to be supplied at the Port of La Luz, the welfare state, the expansion of the hippie movement and the counterculture, May '68, the pill, and women's sexual liberation characterized an optimistic and joyful moment in the last century, reflected in an urban space of open-air terraces in the middle of winter by the sea. There, tourists and locals, bourgeois and rogues, African traders and sailors from all over the world, Scandinavian blondes and ebony Africans, playboys and homosexuals, hustlers, artists, musicians, and street painters met in playful harmony, all of whom could have a cultural reference similar to that of the legendary souk in Marrakech, the Rambla des Fleurs in Barcelona, or the old Montmartre in Paris. The author of these pages aims to capture and evoke the spirit of Catalina Park and the era, using Canarian idioms, chelis expressions from the era, and traditional street and slang terms.The author