Boyles Backyard is on Nebraska Ave just east of alt 19.

I'm glad to see that this fires more people up than just me. I am afraid to think about where our customs and courtesies are heading. All I could think about sitting in the "Liberty Lounge", watching ten plus future petty officers wear hats in the building, was how they will be our future CG and have never been taught the respect that should be shown to tradition. I guess liberal thoughts don't end with politics.

Master Chief, I was at the Catapiller 6.25 bore school, and no I didn't put it in my critques. Just thought it would probably fall upon deaf ears. Should have done it anyway!!!

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I'm glad to see that this fires more people up than just me. I am afraid to think about where our customs and courtesies are heading. All I could think about sitting in the "Liberty Lounge", watching ten plus future petty officers wear hats in the building, was how they will be our future CG and have never been taught the respect that should be shown to tradition. I guess liberal thoughts don't end with politics.

Master Chief, I was at the Catapiller 6.25 bore school, and no I didn't put it in my critques. Just thought it would probably fall upon deaf ears. Should have done it anyway!!!

Criminy - please - it isn't "liberals" that changed the policy. It isn't "liberals" that changed the policy. It isn't "liberals" that changed the policy. Nor was it "conservatives" that changed the policy. See a pattern developing here? Good. Policy changes are neither "liberal" nor "conservative." They are changes - for better or worse. And, in this case, for the worse.

As others have pointed out, there are many changes that have been brought about for one reason or another. I would, if going to the club, ask WHY the policy was changed and then get hold of whoever is in charge of the club and let them know your thoughts and move up the chain - and I would put thoughts into the written word.

Please, please, please, please, get beyond the "liberal"/"conservative" blame game.

nickap
retired and still having fun

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Please, please, please, please, get beyond the "liberal"/"conservative" blame game.

Right! It was those damn Knee Jerk Moderates that did it!

...gjd

Hey we don't even have to worry about hats or no hats in mobile al e-club. Because they tore ours down. but don't worry they build a command building where the e-club used to be. I guess you can go drink with the collage kids.

college mb

It is a disgrace that so many of the traditions of yesteryear are gone. Hats in clubs,hats in buildings and at meals and hat worn backward or sideways. The E789 club here in .south Portland could get enough participation from . the base personnel to open the Rusty Scupper up for Super Bowl Sunday I know thats off subject but it seems the Coast Guard is a job now and not the proud traditional career the I knew

It went down hill when they started collecting piss. I'm glad I was out by then!

I went to CPOA New London. One of the things that troubled me was the progressive ideals that were taught. Told straight up they can hold the outfit and you back. Traditions prevent new ideas and progress it doesn't allow you to move forward.

The Chief's club a thing of the past E-club next. Rank does separate us or should to a certain degree even in a recreational atmosphere. It promotes good order and discipline.

Its traditions I believe that bind us together giving us a common ground regardless of rank. A flag we all can rally around.

Anyways thats my story and Im stickin' to it

We had a nice club in Sitka when I was there, but I here its gone now!

Thats crazy. I have had many good times in e-clubs. Brass Buckle in Charleston,(Where I learned the hard way about wearing a hat), Club-14 in Hawaii, I can't remember the names of the ones in Yorktown, Portsmouth, and Petaluma, but many fond memories just the same.

I liked the fact that back when I was single I could get off of work and have a beer, watch a ballgame, or play a little pool or darts and never wory about getting in a car to drive anywhere. The ship or the barracks was just a short walk away.

I am planning on going back to visit Hawaii next year and really wanted to go have a beer in Club-14 for old times. I hope its not gone.

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Its traditions I believe that bind us together giving us a common ground regardless of rank. A flag we all can rally around.

Sorry, but if you can't have a name the rest of that is pretty meaningless.... oh, you didn't go to the CPOA in New London, you went to the CPO Academy..

Wray...
P.S. Do you know Frank Tupa up there in Green Cove?

Anyone know of an EClub where the no hats tradition is still practiced? Just curious.

Does anyone remember the NCO club that burnt down on Annette Island, I believe everyone finished thier beer before exiting the building?

A subject that is near and dear to my heart! I am curently one of the bartenders at the "All Hands Club" in Boston. This subject is brought up at least once a night... So here are some facts as known to me. We do have a sign in the foyer as you enter the club. But we dont have a bell. All of our bartenders will tell you to remove your cover, or any other head gear. We will give them the chance and remind them that they have to buy a round. In the last six months I have had three patrons get caught and all have paid the price. Two were good sports, a Third, and a First. The other was an O type who paid for a round, but opted to leave. In all three cases no one was harrassed, no one was hurt, and no one went broke! At $2.00 for a domestic bottle of beer, a round dosent cost that much. Especially considering that the patronage of our beloved e-clubs has drasticly dwindled. I have worked in three clubs throughout my career, two of which are closed, and it baffels me why our young sailors dont take advantage of the clubs. We have had tons of differant promos to try and bring back the customers. It just seems that the new Coast Guard dosent look to the club as a place for relaxation, networking, or a good cheap drunk!!! So yes our Club is a Coffee shop during the day and a Bar by night. We are open Wed - Sat 1500 to at least 2100. So if you are around stop in for a beer, just dont wear your cover!

PS... Don, the thursday night social dance that was sponsored by the fine ladies of the USO is no longer!!! Greatly missed by those in the know! I started at the club in the heyday of hoggers nightand loved every one of them!!!

The Canteen at Base San Juan had one of the best views ever. Beers, 50 cents. Don Q and coke, 70 cents. Hamburger con papas were very good, and the bartender, Orlando, was a fruitcake but took care of the weekend "get liquored up" cheap crowd before we headed into the city.

And, alas, it is long gone. I don't remember if we could wear a hat in there.

Hardly anyone goes to E-clubs any more. Maybe it's time to shut 'em down if they are operating at a loss. The Canteen was making money but Captain Csyntain (spelling) shut the damn thing down, circa early 80s.

As of a few months agao the Eclub in Cape May was "hats off" and the Chiefs club next door over was by invite only if you are uninitiated.

First the strippers and now the bell!! Whats left?

BillD
Pensacola FL

At my current location... if you didn't stop and salute for morning colors..... god help you. Granted its due more to that ever seeing Staff, Gunny or Master Sergent that I always hear ripping into someone from over 500 yds away... but the E-club is still the E-club here! Thanks to some very dedicated Marines... all 88,000 stationed here! Thankfully, we get along with them very well.... as for the Navy... lol I think its a mutual understanding that they are what they are.

-Nasty

Nickap2000,

relax a little, I was only trying to make a point, not start a political battle with you.

I was thinking that maybe one reason that E-clubs are not so popular anymore is because of the lack of larger bases with CG housing. Alot of our larger bases don't have family housing anymore and just have a barracks, therefore everyone lives and hangs out off base. I don't blame them, no reason to hang around a place that only offers work and no overtime, lol.