The club at Cubi (air side of Subic) was pretty darn nice back in the late 70s, early 80’s. Good food, entertainment. Of course going downtown was always a risk but there were some interesting clubs there...
Cubi was a great base of ops for the entire WESTPAC theater. Lots of ops to tainan Taiwan, cam rahn bay, et al. And best of all the aircrew BEQ on Cubi was about 158 steps at a dead run from olongapo (magsaisai (sp) street, if memory serves). Dropped a lot of quarters in the $?!t river coming and going.
All the plaques including only one Air Force plaque are there. My name is on it.
You know your old when your in a museum.
P.S. My first plane with my name on it is on a pedestal at Eglin AFB.
Did several visits and deployments from III MEF on Okinawa to Subic during the mid-1980s. We always asked to be billeted at the BOQ at Cubi Point if available. Very nice, as you said. Great views of the airfield and bay. This was good because I had no interest in Olongapo whatsoever and never did set foot in it except when I was traveling through by vehicle to some place else (like Clarke, Manila, or the comm station at San Miguel(?)).
The thing I remember best was Sunday champagne brunch at the Cubi Point Officer’s Club. Great spread and another great view of the flight line. (It was a special treat if the scenery included a capital ship tied up there vs mainside.).
But the main attraction was the show band. Always terrific musicians and singers with well rehearsed and performed Broadway songs. Used to take me two hours to eat breakfast because I’d sit there listening to full sets in between courses.
"My Place" unique bar went in just to have a coke, bar girl said "mama san say you good sailor, you buy ice cream for the girls" Told her I'm not that type of sailor! Quizzical expression on her face, reveled abject confusion, which brought Mama san to explain.... I bought ice cream twice a month for the girls for the next 8 months. 4 peso's, and no bar fine.
For your enjoyment, the New Cubi O Club was dismantled piece by piece, squadron plaque by squadron plaque and moved to the Naval Air Museum at Pensacola. You can visit the museum and lunch in the moved cobi O Club.
The museum is perhaps the best aviation museum in the country. Lunch in the Cubi O club is the cake icing
Prior to the construction of the “new” oclub, the old club was the best eating place at Subic Bay