LOL! I went to that place many, many times! During the Special Services summer programs for kids, I always made sure to sign up for roller skating!
Boy, trip down memory lane there!
..I always made sure to sign up for roller skating!
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FROM the Publication ‘So you are coming to Japan’ by
US Fleet Activities, Yokosuka Japan
“Skateland” Roller Rink is in Building B-29, behind the Fleet Gym. The rink has a large floor, skating music, soda fountain and approximately 250 pair of clamp-on skates and 250 pairs of shoe skates available.
Also on base was Barracks C which housed the base library, all sorts of hobby shops, music listening room, 16 bowling alleys and many other assorted activities including the ‘Benny Decker Theater’.
Don’t forget Club Alliance, a Navy EM Club, located outside the main gate (about 3 blocks).
I ‘lived’ in Yokosuka (home ported) 1960-62 and was in and out between 1957-60 and looking at this map there are places I never ‘heard’ of.
Library, hobby shops etc etc.. and all other kinds of ‘normal’ things....didn’t sell booze, I really wasn’t interested...<: <: <:
It is really a shame, all the time in and Cities in the Far East and about all I ever saw of any of them was the waterfront and bars withing walking/crawling/short cab ride.
Hit Bangkok in 1959 & 1961, Hong Kong several times and never took a ‘tour’....oh well...