Hello, it's Nelson Estupin here. Fil-Am geek, band nerd, but still a pretty much all-around nice guy. This is me and the family, my son Jacob and my wife Josephine. It was taken in San Francisco just this past December. We're living in San Jose.
Armando, how the hell did you get my 87-88 yearbook?
I often wonder how different the place is since I'd left. I even got to the point of getting Google Earth and checking the base out via satellite. Get this...I found my house! 58 L Street. It takes a little while to get used to using the software, but once you do you can pretty much find any place on Earth. Thew Gym's still there, so is Berkey Field, and the driving range.
Okay...some "Oh Yeah!"s for ya!
Remember the $1.50 movies...and how you had to stand for the national anthem before each movie? (Coming back stateside, the first 10 movies I saw I stood up like an idiot!)
It's stupid now, but remember during Friendship Day when they'd bring out the earthquake machine and you'd go and sit in it and just get rocked for a few minutes, sh*t flying everywhere?
How many of you remember that crazy rotating schedule:
Monday 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Tuesday 2,6,3,4,5,7,1
Wednesday 6,7,3,4,5,1,2
Thursday 7,1,3,4,5,2,6
Friday 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Video games from back in the day: SuperPunch Out, Xevious, Galaga, Gauntlet, Pole Position, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Popeye, Mario Bros., 1942 and where the hell can I find a copy these days of PacLand...all of which you would play at the Navy Lodge game room, at the Cafeteria, or at one of the clubs while you waited for your mom and/or dad to finish playing the slot machines...or, for those of you who actually remember...at BARRACKS "C"!
Where did you go to exchange your dollars for yen? The Seaside Club, the CPO Club, the Officers' Club or Club "A" of course!
Who didn't try to hurry off the base at dusk after parking on the hill, just to avoid having to stop as they lowered the flag?
The only place you could get an ICEE and a corndog? The basement of Seiyu.
100 Yen ice cream from a vending machine?
How about the video game area...at the top of Saikaya?
Here's a good one...how many of you can still peel a mikan in one peel?
Curry rice at the bowling alley?
How many of you have EVER had Thanksgiving at the galley? If you have...do you remember the candies they'd lay out all over the place? Wasn't it the sh*t?
Who had every color of Member's Only jackets Korea could produce? And who used to do that funky thing with the shoulder and neck straps so that it'd make a tail in the back?
For you who used to go to Sullivans'...who was THE BEST player you knew in teather ball?
Miss Yamamoto and her transparencies...and her fingers and tongue that changed colors with the markers she'd use?
Miss Haseley and her slides of wherever she'd been?
Saturday Mongolian barbecue at the Seaside club...and if you guessed the weight of your barbecue bowl you got it free.
In today's world of 500 channels of nothing on, how the hell did we survive with only ONE channel?
Yo-hi, Yokosuka...you've gotta miss the life we had there...and nobody...NOBODY can quite understand these memories unless you've been there, done that.
2 comments:
OMG Nelson, you brought back soooo many memories that I have forgotten!!! You also got me cracking up!!! This is good!!
I remember exchanging my dollar to yen at Saikaya...
BTW, was it Michelle Pontious the BEST teather ball player? I just remember her beating everyone in line... Who was it? Dang you got me thinking now!
Nelson,
How in the hell do you remember the schedule? Very Impressive! Give me your address and I will send your yearbook back to you.
I let Michelle Pontious beat me in teather ball, only because I thought she was hot stuff back in the day. Besides Dai Ramirez was the best boy teather ball player.
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