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Master and Commander
Posts: 1893
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: Boomer Liberty
Holy Loch and Dunoon were always fun. The local Scotish girls loved American sailors. Rota was a bar town also; but, seemed to have more "working girls". Then of course we had Groton/New London and Charleston which we called home port; but there were fun places to go.
After I got married, we lived in both Charleston and then Rota. I was assigned to the tender so it was like a day job. But my perceptions of these towns changed when you had to live there; now it was not a liberty port. |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 781
Location: Port Orchard WA | Subject: RE: Boomer Liberty
Oooooooooooooh How did you miss Andrew's Chateau by the Sea (Andy's Hut for those of you not familiar) and beautiful Guam, on your list of Boomer liberty. Got my nickname at the EM Club there. (Find the movie, Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, with Paul Newman, which was making the rounds on the boats then in 76-77 and you should figger out the rest of the story, besides it is a funny movie)
Edited by Bear 2007-07-13 2:50 PM
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: Boomer Liberty
Aaaaaah, yes. Chateau Andre sur le Mer. Where the beer was almost as warm as the water in the swimmin' cove out back.
But it was still open at 2000 when the non-quals and the nukes got liberty on the Broke-dragon.
In Dunoon, Ferry's Fish Bar, and then either the Dolphin Club or this little hole-in-the-wall place whose name I ferget, but they played '40's big-band jazz on the juke box, and the locals didn't mind an occasional Yank who was respectful and willing to listen to their stories. Lost my taste for Budweiser there, drinking MacEwan's and Black & Tans. One of these days, I'm goin' back for a visit.
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Boomer Liberty
