miss lumpy bumps - 2009-03-02 9:41 PM

Oh, also...I want to also thank you for bringing the "entertainment"...let me elaborate...if anyone was just watching the "Today Show",
it's "Australia Day", and they flew in 3 of the dancers from the Chippendale's show in Las Vegas called "Thunder from Down Under"...so,
"Good Day, Mate"...

Have a great time out there...and safe trip East.

Darrin - 2009-03-03 3:24 AM

...Welcome back Blue, wish that I could buy you that beverage of choice but I won't be able to attend Ron's celebration of life due to being in school and I cannot get out of it.

Darrin

TSpoon - 2009-03-04 11:47 AMActually SOB I dazzled her with West Pac trinkets, you know the $45 sets of Nortake Chine (service for 12), a set of shiny stainless flat ware, a string of Pearls from the vendor topside in that large exchange building, a set of crystal stem ware (which I broke most of by sitting on the box), a couple of genuine ruby and sapphire rings from Hong Kong, a couple of those Japanese dolls in a glass box, and one of those Japanese black lacquer jewelry boxes.The Ronquil returned on 22 Feb, 1967 and we married on 4 March 1967.That is 42 yers ago today.Still have the Nortake, the jewlery box, the string of pearls, and the wife.See you all on the 11th.T.Spoon, DBF

She (my ex) got the Noritake, the flatware, and the pearls; I got my clothes, and the oldest vehicle. LOL.
'Large exchange building'? The one outside the gate? Yokosuka? You must be talking about the Alliance Club.
$10 (in MPC, of course) would get you ~3,600 yen and a sailor could get a pretty good liberty out of that: dinner at the Alliance, the 'special' at one of the local hotsi bath places, then get a heat on at the Starlight and/or the Whitehat clubs. But keep your eye on the clock - Cinderella liberty, you know! If you didn't make it back to the base before midnight, the gate guards would make life difficult, to say the least.
Them were the daze oops - days.

Ric - 2009-03-04 6:26 PM
Ah yes! Cheap booze, cheap ciggie-butts, free coffee ... the Navy certainly started me down a path resembling a health-nut's nightmare. At least I've kicked the butts.
You'd take the bottle you bought and head for your boat's hangout, and hand the bottle over to the barkeep. S/he'd label it with your ID, and keep it back-bar for you until it was a dead soldier. All you did was pay for 'set-ups' (glass, bowl of ice, and your choice of mixer), and you 'poured your own' out of your private bottle. I was amazed when we stopped there 6 months later and my half-bottle was still there!
Oh yeah! The bowl of ice cubes came with chop sticks; picking up ice cubes and transferring them to my glass was how I acquired some deftness with those implements.
Look at the Alliance Club photo, and you'll see two small open windows just right of the tower ... those windows were in a head located above the 3rd floor. How do I know? A bunch of us were trapped in the Alliance Club when a massive protest demonstration was put one by people protesting a nuke boat that came in; it came down the boulevard that separated the A Club from the base main gate, so the SPs wouldn't let us attempt to make it back on base until the marchers were clear. I watched from one of those windows, looking down as tens of thousands angry chanting Nipponese, carrying torches and big indecipherable banners marched by.
I was impressed!