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Originally posted by Echofixer:
Marilyn's II ??? That's where I played, and lost

It was in Subic City... It was either the Superhead bar or Blow Heaven.

Just curious, did you ever get a Marilyn's business card?

No, wasn't thinking clearly back then, too much Mojo & San Magu...wish I had.

I also found a great little place about half way around the bay. Open air bar with pool table, juke box, great food, beach within a few feet, bunch of little huts for sleep overs Can't remeber the name, but bet I could find it even today

Echofixer - if the place you mentioned was in the Barrio, it sounds similar to the Bamboo Inn.

All - this might help refresh some memories of adventures down Magsaysay "lane", and beyond... cheers!

http://www.subicbaypi.com/

Thanks Surfnturf....It was in Barrio Barreto, the name sort of rings a bell.

Great link! Man, what I wouldn't give to pull in to Subic for a 10 day R&R (let's just skip the at sea period (although I do miss flight ops too).

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Originally posted by 93Corvette:
Just curious, did you ever get a Marilyn's business card?

I had a Marilyn's business card for years, till my Filipina wife found it a couple years ago. It mysteriously disappeared soon thereafter. I had it laminated and everything...haha. Heard it burnt down in the early 90's?

I loved the Barrio and Subic City. Casablanca was good for bar girl boxing..funny as heck. They'd really get in there and swing away. I hung out alot at the Teddy Bear bar, it was owned by a co-worker. He loved sleeping on the pool table. Spent alot of peso's at the Midnight Rambler, G.B.U., Crazy Horse, White Rock resort, Marmont Hotel, among others. Spent more time in Subic City though, it was dog eat dog there. Superhead, Jupiter, Blue Diamond, and whatever other bar opened/changed names that week, pure paradise. Especially loved the "free samples"

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I hung out alot at the Teddy Bear bar, it was owned by a co-worker.

The orginal owner was a Inteligence Specialist (IS) that worked at COMUSNAVPHIL, forgot his name. His sister-in-law was named Dolly. Dolly was like a national park, everyone has to visit and explore.

O that's just wrong! (She told me I was her only one!)

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Originally posted by 93Corvette:

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Originally posted by contractor_usnret:
I hung out alot at the Teddy Bear bar, it was owned by a co-worker.

The orginal owner was a Inteligence Specialist (IS) that worked at COMUSNAVPHIL, forgot his name. His sister-in-law was named Dolly. Dolly was like a national park, everyone has to visit and explore.

Yep, that's IS1. Worked at COMUSNAVPHIL (N-2) shop. I worked in the back in the SPINTCOMM. I do remember ol' J.J. had orders to a ship or something like that. Then one night he "fell" into a ditch in the Barrio and broke his leg or ankle, not sure what happened after that, i transferred soon after. I do remember hearing about Dolly...never explored though...lol

Man o' man, the memories!

Small world. I was best friends with Ira F. who was an IS1 then ISC. I use to send wirenotes via the SPINTCOM to my wife while I was on deployment. You guys would pass them to Ira, would would bring them to my wife. Nothing like having your own Western Union (aka SI-Comms) that no one else could use.

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Small world. I was best friends with Ira F. who was an IS1 then ISC. I use to send wirenotes via the SPINTCOM to my wife while I was on deployment. You guys would pass them to Ira, would would bring them to my wife. Nothing like having your own Western Union (aka SI-Comms) that no one else could use.

Very small world! I remember Ira, he was married to a very nice Liberian lady. He was a good guy. He arrived there not long before i left.

Heck i probably passed some of your wirenotes to Ira. We'd do that quite a bit after ships had been OTC with us during portcalls. "Can you pls pass this to "so and so" at T's Tavern, or what ever bar..lol.

Those were the days...lol Boy, was it a blast!

Since this is an Olongapo thread, and since I was just talking about Ira F. above, I thought I’d add this one… It’s long, but I bet no one can top it….

This story is when I took on two SEAL team guys during a bar fight. I have attached the police report for your enjoyment. I’ve kept it all these years because everyone says the SEAL team is tough, but not at tough as a ticked off sailor with a scrapping background…

Background:
You should know this before I tell you the story… I was raised in a very rough neighborhood. My father should have been a founding member of a street gang. Here it was, in the 1960’s and my father raised me to stick up for my sisters and friends, and if necessary, fight to the bitter end. Even if you knew you’d get your butt kicked, you had to let whomever know that they were in a scrap too. If you didn’t, then you’d have to deal with the wrath of my father, which wasn’t a wise choice.

The Story:
My friend Ira and I, along with our wife’s were at a bar drinking. This bar had 3 levels. Each was at a 45 degree angle, so you could sit at the bottom floor and look all the way to level 3. On the top floor the SEAL team was having a party. From what I heard, they were partying since 3pm that day. It was now about 9pm.

We sat there and watch as the SEAL member hugging each other and being friendly, then 5 minutes later, punching and physically scrapping. After someone broke up the fight, they would be friend again, and then another member of the SEAL team would say something and another fight would start. It was really cool. So I told Ira, let’s just stay here and watch as they beat the crap out of each other. This wasn’t one of my better ideas….

Three SEAL’s came down the stairs and told my friend Ira that he was a wimp, and smacked him. I stepped in and blocked them from hitting him. Bad move, the 1st guy came at me like a bull, his head was down, so I grab his head and push him to the ground. The next guy came at me and we started scrapping. He then tried to smack me with a chair, and I grabbed it, and kept him away from me. My wife started to beat the guy in the head with her umbrella and doing a good number on him. The guy on the ground tried to get up, and I knew if he did, then I’d be history. So I started to kick him in the face. Finally someone on the SEAL team looked at Ira’s wounds and recommend he should go to the hospital. He backed his guys off, and lucky for me, because the entire SEAL team was coming down the stairs.

We got Ira patched up at the hospital, and then went to the police station to make a report. Come to find out they already had the guys arrested. I guess they proceeded to tear up the bar after our fight.

The police wanted me to visually identify them, which I did. Then the head of the police took me aside and asked my why I was such good at fighter, he said “Man, look at these guys, they are completely torn up, I’ve never seen something like this in a long time, and here you don’t even have a scratch…” Little did he know, most of their damage was from them fighting among themselves all day long and not me kicking the crap out of them.

I think this was by best scrap in the Navy…. How can take on two SEAL members and still live to talk about it…. Olongapo, best place on earth!!!

Hope you all enjoy…

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Heaven , I'm remembering heaven----- My first time into Olongapo was when the Coral Sea first made port there on the 61 cruise. A bunch of us QM's went to the EM Club at Cubi Pt and then went to Olongapo (main gate) via taxi. Went to town and proceeded to get aquanited with San Maguiel and the lovely LBFM's. I was later to be stationed there for about two years. What a thing to do to a 19 year old Sailor. I have been on liberty in many places but Opo had it hands down, Loved Monkey on My Stick LOL Westpac Willie to the LBFM's When I complete my time machine I will be back.

"the EM Club at Cubi Pt"

By any chance, do you have or know where to find some pics of the inside of the Sky Club?
I have not been able to find any. There some of the out side after the volcano, and base closing.



Do you remember the cheap steak dinners, and the "rent a girls"?

Here is a view of the inside...pretty sad!

I can only imagine what it was like on the very last night in Olongapo before the last of the Navy and Marines departed for good. The partying must have been extraordinaire. I might have taken a piece of my favorite club for a souvenir, if I had been there.
Of course I would have offered top Peso for it, if I had any left. HA! But the memories are just as good. And I can always re-live them here too.

ah, the Sky Club. We used to get a taxi and go up there for our lunch break when working on the Cubi side, flying. since we couldn't drink beer during the day, we'd buy the quarter pitchers of iced tea and lemons. The old Sky club, what a shame!

Trying to remember a club on base, (69-70). Maybe The Sampaguita Club? There were slot machines in it and one night I won a ton of nickels. Pizza was good and you could buy beer in quart bottles too!

SMILES...that's gotta be the same as 'happy face' from my cruises there...with the long tablecloths.
ohhhh, the mammaries..oops memories.

my last WP cruise , 71-72...
HEY CHEEP, WHAT CHIP YOU ON...????

many SP duties there...with 5 kids, i 'earned a lil libs money by taking other chief's duties for my own libs. actually had fun on SP duty 'cept when a carrier was in.
got to know a lot of the LBFM's on my beats how to steer my troops to the better places.

Some great pics guys. Bring back a lot of memories. My first trip there was in 1963 aboard the USS Vernon County. The guys introduced me to the "Golden Peacock" bar and that became my "home port" every liberty call for the next five years. I was later transfered to an AC Division operating in the Nam. When ever we brought our boats back to Subic for repairs (and some R&R) it was back to the "GP". We'd sign out for "Overnight" passes by swearing we were going to Manila. Being on Tropical hours got us off base at 1300, we'd bar hop until the bars closed at 0200 then find a "Honey" to take to the hotel next door. Next morning we "Muster" at a bar just outside the gate for a quick beer then head back to the boats for muster at 0800. Grab a few hours of shut eye and get ready for 1300 Liberty call again. I look back on that and wonder how in the he** we did it. BTW, anyone remember the name of that bar just outside the gate? It was the only one open in the AM.

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BTW, anyone remember the name of that bar just outside the gate? It was the only one open in the AM.

was that the 'gateway'???

If you can remember your first night in 'Po City, you must have been on Shore Patrol duty.

Spent some of my liberty time in the Gateway,Sometimes the Merchant marines would hang out there,That caused the price of tail to go up due to their bigger paycheck.

My first night in "Po City" hit several of the rock and roll clubs then went with some aquadron mates to The Astro Club. Got a honey-co there for the next several inport periods.
Early 70s.

I found a sad testimony from a motorcycle rider who rode from Angeles to Olongapo. I was there in the early 70's with Drifty Fifty (VRC50, Det DaNang) then again on Oklahoma City (CG5) and Blue Ridge (LCC19). My favorite bar was the Rufadora

http://www.gazette9.com/scg/olongapo.htm

I just recently wrapped up a port visit into the former Subic Bay base and thought I'd let everyone know what's going on nowadays.

First of all, E-4 and below with 7th Fleet blue cards were originally supposed to have overnight liberty (some people even booked their hotels in advance) but the day we pulled in and got the port brief from NCIS it was cancelled. Instead, now we would be allowed out into Olongapo which we weren't originally (the original liberty policy made us remain in SBMA) but we had to be back on the base by 1700.

There was like three clubs on the former base that everybody went to, they were way way more expensive than anything out in town. I still had a good time there, but going to Barrio Barretto or Subic City or any of these other places was completely out of the question.

Also I have never seen so many pushy vendors trying to sell me movies and cigarettes and anything else you can name. It was really annoying at first but eventually I did succumb to some of the ridiculously low prices.

-OSSN-

I remember one bar on Magsaysay that had a really good band and some great looking honeys. I would enjoy the music and drink San Migu while my honey worked the room for cherry drinks from the Marines and target sailors. They all thought she was treating them really special because the drinks were delivered without her chips (to be cashed in later as her take). What they didn't know was that the chips were being delivered to me. Because of that, they would buy her more cherry drinks and she made more money.

About 11:30 each night she would leave the bar with some Cinderella liberty guy and take the long way back to the gate to make them think they were going somewhere else. She then would drop them off and ziggy back to the bar. We would cash in all the chips and head up to her apartment which was about half a block awaya. I really felt bad for those other guys (not) who thought they were going home with her after buying all the cherry drinks.

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I remember one bar on Magsaysay that had a really good band and some great looking honeys. I would enjoy the music and drink San Migu while my honey worked the room for cherry drinks from the Marines and target sailors. They all thought she was treating them really special because the drinks were delivered without her chips (to be cashed in later as her take). What they didn't know was that the chips were being delivered to me. Because of that, they would buy her more cherry drinks and she made more money.

About 11:30 each night she would leave the bar with some Cinderella liberty guy and take the long way back to the gate to make them think they were going somewhere else. She then would drop them off and ziggy back to the bar. We would cash in all the chips and head up to her apartment which was about half a block awaya. I really felt bad for those other guys (not) who thought they were going home with her after buying all the cherry drinks.

Outstanding! LOL! What a crack up!..... I mean,.... your ethics are questionable!
Though I never got burned like that. At least I don't think so. Everything was, (lucky for me), pretty straight during my time there. Quality beer, smoke, and inexpensive but relatively healthy bar hostess companions. Nobody I knew got broke over night, sick, or ripped off. Lucky times for me I guess. Oh wait! There was some PI weed going 'round that was suppose to be Thai Stick. But you still got stoned on it. And Migu did go up ₱.25 toward my last months there. Say, you didn't have anything TO DO with THAT did you?

Unfortunately, if I had anything to do with the price going up then I didn't benefit from it.

I was a smokeboat sailor at that time and everybody told us we had no ethics anyway. The base SP actually gave up on trying to have any control over us. My house was just over the out-of-bounds line and they would markedly look the other direction when driving by because they knew that nothing would happen if they took me in.

Most of my time was actually spent in Subic City which, of course, was way beyond the out-of-bounds line. We liked it that way since Olongopo really got crowded when a carrier task force came into port.

Ah yes, we used to say "The Fleet's In" when a task force would arrive. Even just one carrier, (5000 guys), would take over the town. For us who were stationed there, well we'd just write off a week or so of not partying downtown HA!
As for us corpsmen, we would often be on call anyway. The ER and wards would fill up fast with drug, alcohol overdoses , and fight injuries. We got plenty of practice suturing up head and body lacerations. I remember the SP's and ambulances bringing in drunken and drugged out fleet sailors and marines.
Aw heck, they were just letting off a little steam. But the real crazies were marines coming back from 'NAM. Only marine mp's could handle those guys it seemed. And like, they brought 'em into the ER fighting! Shoot, we had to sedate them fast before we could even treat them HA!
"Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end. We'd sing and dance, forever and a day. "





Post Script: All treated Navy and Marine personnel were returned to full duty, as they slept it off or were healed of party injuries. Even the crazies.
For The War Continued.

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