Ok-here is one for the boys in the back room- flashback to 1979 (yes 79) The SNCOs of my unit decide to have a ugly girl contest-we all go out in Alongapo and get the uglest one we can find and bring them back for a vote-ohh man we found women who would stop a clock----------if i remember rightly winner got free drinks-if i could i would get the winner and bring her along on a bus ride-we could scare the camels as we passed by them.(i know the younger bus riders dont remember alongapo (subic bay)
-at the time it was the best kept secret in the Corps and Navy-------stay safe whitewolf i kuwait
Whitewolf,
I remember Alongapo very well, Cross shit river, Take a right down Gordon... Villa's tacos... and more!!
If you were scared to eat the monkey on a stick on the street, you could hit Joe's American food for a ham and cheese, or go to Rock Tracks ( or whatever they were calling it based on the year ) and get a square pizza and dance with the girls on the warped wood floor... LOL...
You didn't know if you were drunk, or if you were on a bowed piece of dance floor.. That was the 1st club right out the gate on the left with the crankin rock and roll going...
Straight down Mac Sai Sai and catch the Jeepnee to the Bario or Subic city... Sweet 16's.... Playing Smiles.... You name it we gave it a shot... I used to stay at hotel Montemar right downtown by the brown fox.... Had good A/C and the shower worked!!
The last time I was there was in about 89.. You could still run out to white rock for some low grade fun, but all the good times happened after dark in downtown Alongapo...
Plus we never usually made it past subic city before we had to head back before dark.... Lotsa bad boys in the hills back then.... Midnite gate curfews and all that.
One of the only places where an E5 paycheck allowed you to party like a rock star..

Adult disneyland..
Many a trip to the fair Islands in the USN....
Good Times...

Dean