tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post4300125967537648753..comments2024-03-19T14:51:21.425-04:00Comments on The Trad: Ft. Monroe Officer's Club - The Deep Endtintinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13652066200071703445noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-65402896880976969202014-03-02T08:44:39.168-05:002014-03-02T08:44:39.168-05:00CJ - Congrats on making field grade. I remember be...CJ - Congrats on making field grade. I remember being allowed a small glass of red wine when the old man made major. He was still in Vietnam and my mother and I sat at the kitchen table with the Army Times and the old man's name underlined on the promotion list. A big memory that will last forever. tintinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13652066200071703445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-48049658353491585272014-03-01T20:59:19.744-05:002014-03-01T20:59:19.744-05:00Good stuff. AF brat myself. Grew up in the 70'...Good stuff. AF brat myself. Grew up in the 70's. Your post was a nice little slice of nostalgia. Now that I'm an FGO raising a couple of kids I wonder what memories will stick with them.<br />- CJ CJ in NYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-27265999343703733302010-08-02T09:38:21.673-04:002010-08-02T09:38:21.673-04:00Funny, I had an O Club flashback just yesterday wh...Funny, I had an O Club flashback just yesterday when I caught some vibraphone jazz on the radio. Same idea, only Germany and the wives were shimmying on the postage sized dance floor after a few bloodies. It was brunch after all.Easy and Elegant Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09951907004091808223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-5042155390104358102010-08-01T13:13:10.781-04:002010-08-01T13:13:10.781-04:00i remember the id tags we had to wear with our mem...i remember the id tags we had to wear with our membership numbers...i think. they had the black strap for our wrists that turned white by the end of the summer because of all the chlorine in the pool. <br /><br />oh yes, and burying jellyfish alive in the hot sand.<br /><br />@chico- i don't think the old fort is being turned over to the city of Hampton, just the outlying areas such as the old PX, commissary, helipad, and motorpool...and the quarters where my family lived. :( i read the Chamberlain Hotel had to shut down because no one could get to it after 9/11 and the base was no longer an open access military establishment.The Sardonicisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10613335243397436645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-52668088252477785162010-07-30T13:07:45.290-04:002010-07-30T13:07:45.290-04:00Chico - thanks for the info. That's where I&#...Chico - thanks for the info. That's where I'm headed fo sho.~Tessa~Scoffshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14026251653030390293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-27154361038918873222010-07-30T09:06:40.701-04:002010-07-30T09:06:40.701-04:00Ft. Monroe is about to be turned over to the city ...Ft. Monroe is about to be turned over to the city of Hampton. I got married at the Chamberlain. It's now a retirement complex. Life marches on.Mateohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18431655780641400774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-65193830514434458502010-07-30T07:11:17.523-04:002010-07-30T07:11:17.523-04:00Other than the "everyone looks Italian when t...Other than the "everyone looks Italian when they're dead" bit, this is my fave.GSV JRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05151693998976927921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-81211786848996645772010-07-30T03:48:50.201-04:002010-07-30T03:48:50.201-04:00Reminds me of a line from a James Salter short sto...Reminds me of a line from a James Salter short story: ""She was a woman who lived a certain life. She knew how to give dinner parties, take care of dogs, enter restaurants . . . . She was a woman who had read books, played golf, gone to weddings, whose legs were good, who had weathered storms, a fine woman whom no one now wanted."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-91497808510698265482010-07-29T23:56:02.632-04:002010-07-29T23:56:02.632-04:00"like""like"those trickshttp://thosetricks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-54251243797206855892010-07-29T20:38:40.324-04:002010-07-29T20:38:40.324-04:00I grew up around the corner from the Hampton Yacht...I grew up around the corner from the Hampton Yacht Club. I remember visiting Fort Monroe. This really jogged some memories. Thank you.<br /><br />If you ever find yourself in the NOVA/DC area please look me up as I owe you a drink.<br /><br />~HiltonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-33482922590704494452010-07-29T20:21:21.487-04:002010-07-29T20:21:21.487-04:00Paging Dr. Freud...Paging Dr. Sigmund Freud...
Pa...Paging Dr. Freud...Paging Dr. Sigmund Freud...<br /><br />Patient exhibits severe Oedipal phase entrapment of the libidinal and ego development. Multiple posts on maternal end elderly figures exhibited. Could be described as "mommy fixated". Could be super-ego trying to internalize and identify with strong but distant father figure. <br /><br />Harmless diagnosis really. Enjoyable post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-65277377708627574672010-07-29T16:12:33.955-04:002010-07-29T16:12:33.955-04:00Change your description to an R&R resort near ...Change your description to an R&R resort near Pattaya Beach on the Gulf of Siam in 1968 and one of those bikini clad babes would have been my mother smoking her menthol cigarettes and reading a Cosmopolitan magazine. I would have been the totally sunburned little blond girl playing with the other kids.Belle de Villehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14045827018848979761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-74593995504159190322010-07-29T14:21:51.839-04:002010-07-29T14:21:51.839-04:00Splendidly captures a moment of youthful Summer......Splendidly captures a moment of youthful Summer...Main Line Sportsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11303248738216839079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-80597230377972338792010-07-29T11:42:28.717-04:002010-07-29T11:42:28.717-04:00Lovely. I remember the jelly fish too.Lovely. I remember the jelly fish too.~Tessa~Scoffshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14026251653030390293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-87192424439064265562010-07-29T11:07:32.100-04:002010-07-29T11:07:32.100-04:00Beautiful, baby. Beautiful. I totally get the pict...Beautiful, baby. Beautiful. I totally get the picture. The deep end, indeed. That photo is wonderful. But how come the 4th woman from the right reminds me of the Queen? Just sayin.' <br /><br />I'm so sick of giant baggy swim shorts, I wish those closer-fitting shorts like that guy (okay, officer, probably) is wearing would make a come-back.<br /><br />My wife's family was stationed at Ft. Monroe 3 or 4 years after your time there. She was about 8.<br /><br />-DBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-43288727989398404402010-07-29T09:58:51.524-04:002010-07-29T09:58:51.524-04:00Just a great post. Perfect.
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mlanesepic.blogspo...Just a great post. Perfect.<br /><br />ML<br />mlanesepic.blogspot.comM.Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02898845239082082494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-51315327661092872192010-07-29T09:47:17.503-04:002010-07-29T09:47:17.503-04:00"off the coke bottles" as they used to s..."off the coke bottles" as they used to say at fenway. brilliant.james at 10engineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957344808503607428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1349290550527925310.post-3630868609330718262010-07-29T08:26:09.080-04:002010-07-29T08:26:09.080-04:00Sounds like you have a Betty Draper complex Tintin...Sounds like you have a Betty Draper complex Tintin.Brummagem Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00998868549766033751noreply@blogger.com