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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Bailout for Insurance companies, now
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:55:34 -0700 (PDT)

You are a man with a 'worldly' past. You could have bumped into one of my
uncles or cousins over there. Of course, they all claimed they never went to
any hoochie places or bars or such :-) ....bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Homestead] Bailout for Insurance companies, now
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 6:41 PM
> > No, I was still a kid when Vietnam ended. I did find
> this site about what
> > people like you were doing in thast city back then.
> See if anything is
> > familiar. I didn't see an "east Inn"
> ....bobford
> >
> > http://www.filipinawives.com/memorial.html
>
> Who ever wrote that was there long after I was. We were
> not allowed to wear
> civies at the time and did not use the local currency. The
> pictures look
> the same though. I was there several times in 1967 and
> 1968 as part of the
> air group on the USS Kearsage CVS-33. I was a electronics
> tech for the
> dipping SONAR on helicopters. I was at the EM club on
> Grande Island when
> word came that the Pueblo was captured.
>
> The East Inn was at the east end of town right at the
> limits of where you
> could go. Most of the town was off limits. The East Inn
> was a large second
> floor bar. A bar stretched along one wall and tables in
> the center. The
> other three walls had little curtained booths where for a
> price you and one
> of the girls could have a little privacy or pull back the
> curtain and give a
> show. Girls danced all over the place and were eager to
> get you and your
> money into one of the booths. A very raunchy place with a
> very bad
> reputation. You never went there alone and you always made
> sure all of your
> party left together. Long ago and far away.
>
> One of the things that always stuck with me. My
> compartment was aft and one
> route took me past sick bay. As we left Pearl and the
> flesh pots of Hotel
> street there would be a few sailors lined up outside for
> the necessary
> shots. The line would be about the same as we pulled out
> of Yokuska Japan
> and Sasabo Japan. But when we pulled out of the PI the
> passageway was
> packed and I had to take an alternate route. Hong Kong was
> even worse.
>
> Don Bowen KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html







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