Posted on 06/06/2006 9:53:53 AM PDT by atomic_dog
RANDOM SEARCH ON GOOGLE REVEALS SURPRISE TREASURE By Mike Cassidy Mercury News Tony Gellepis remembers the last time he saw his Navy-issue peacoat. More or less remembers. See, he'd had a drink. OK, a few. And it was 65 years ago. March 1941. Shore leave. San Francisco. ``San Francisco was a great liberty port,'' Gellepis, 85, says, sitting in his Santa Clara duplex. ``That called for hoisting a few. I mean, you didn't want to go to the library.''
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Drink enough, ANY coat becomes a pee coat.
Hell,that can happen when you go drinkin' at the PX.Even with 3.2 beer.
P.S.,can anyone tell me if PX's still serve 3.2 beer.It's been 30+ years since I've been inside of one.
No. U can now get "regular' beer and wine in some PX's.
3.2 beer? I thought only Utah had that! LOL!
That was 'Frisco's hot spot in the 40s...if you go drinking in the Tenderloin today your loins will indeed end up tender!
Back in the late 60's/early 70's Army PX's only sold 3.2 beer.
Not in the late 80's/early 90's. I had regular bottle MGD, Bud, Coors light, etc.
Aaaah,progress!
Just like a squid, can't hold his liquor, can't hold his gear. Ha, Semper Fi.
No sentimentalist, the old sailor.
"What? You don't want it back, I ask?"
"I haven't had it for 65 years. What the hell am I going to do with it?"
Ditto here. I used to go the EM Club at NTC Great Lakes circa 74-75 and they'd had that weird rule where at 19 you could drink 3.2 beer but was 21 for regular beer, wine and booze. I recall getting plenty wasted listening to low rent bands cover Bachman-Turner Overdrive while drinking lots of 3.2 beer. Now that I think of it it's a wonder I didn't lose some gear there.
I couldn't get them on anymore...
Colorado had 3.2% only in the late '50's and early '60's; any thing stronger and I would have probably severely damaged myself before completing my 6 years at the University of Colorado.
Yup, we get you jarheads to hold our gear while we go get the gals...
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