Never heard him called "Willy" or "Willi" by anyone in TJ. It was always "Don William."

His store on Pasaje Rodriguez was called the "Foreign Club" after the famous prohibition era TJ nightclub of the same name. Nice place (no booze) but I would imagine it's long gone now.

He was diagnosed with diabetes and then Alzheimer's and moved to "Casa De Asistencia Mi Nuevo Hogar" on Calle Amacuzac. It was attached to the government but was privately managed by a Chinese company called "Specola." I swung by, he was asleep. It's a very depressing place. (see address: GUEST,AlmaRosa: 14 Jul 15 - 06:10 PM, above)

The rumor going around TJ was about a bio-documentary in the works. The production company? Specola! Never could track it down when I got back to the States. Might just be the usual politics.

An update would be nice though.