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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- This video quickie offers great views of some of the special features of Clark Air Base that were available to many who enjoyed her comforts through what seemed the endless years prior to Mt. Pinatubo.
Many who view these scenes may have lived in homes picture here, or used services of facilies captured in view tape; or maybe you participated in the many activties enjoyed by staff and families alike.
In other video shorts to come, I hope to include more "PRE-PINATUBO" travel-log features of Subic Bay, Wallace Air Station, Camp John Hay/Baguio, San Fernando, LaUnion, Easter (holy week) flagalations near San Fernando, Pampanga, scenes of Manila, with the Embassy area and more.
Also, modern-day scenes of former US bases will surprise and delight you...
Stay tuned!
Virgil Hopper
Clark AFB was the BEST MILITARY BASE period! I was a SP on base and this place was pure PARADISE! But alas, I guess it was not meant to be because just as I was having my maximum fun, Mt. Pinatubo erupted! Even to this day I feel a special connection to Filipino's.
I concur with you fellow Air Force Security Police. I was there at Clark one month before Mount Pinatubo Explosion. I have never seen a base like that before. I thought Lackland was number one with Basic training and Security Police training school.
I came through Clark on my way home from Vietnam. Had the pleasure of dining at the Top Hat NCO Club probably the nicest and most opulent club anywhere. Had a few cold ones in the ball room at the bar accompanied by some fine cigars. I left Clark for home but will always remember that NCO Clib
Mr Dolye THANK YOU for calling me and telling me about my mother who I lost at 13 at Clark. The tears are rolling down my face as I write this comment. You are a WONDERFUL man to call me at tell me about my mom 40 years later. You are an ANGEL and cannot THANK you enough. I can't believe it my heart is smiling. I didnt even know my mom had a memorial at Clark. She spoke to me across time through you.... no words can express my feelings.
Thank you for this wonderful look back. I knew one of the girls at the mini-golf, we went to Wagner H.S. together. Thank you for the memories!!!
You will never appreciate this video unless it was a part of your life.
I'm glad i was one of them, i grew up in Angeles city and most of my life i was hanging around in Clark Air Base with my friends after working in Levin's Gym.
We use to hang around on Hill Area, where Wagner High is located, kelly Theater and Cafeteria, Burger King, Silver Wing.
We call our Friend in Korea in MAC Terminal,go to NCO Club for dancing. boy, those day are gone but there are still fresh in our memory.
Nat
My dad was stationed here 1958-1960. I was born in Clark's Air Force hospital. He took lots of photos. It's interesting to see later scenes of Clarks. Thanks for posting.
I just want to thank you for posting this "Before Mt. Pinatubo" video. I grew in the Philippines in Balibago Angeles City. It just breaks my heart how it changed after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. It's really wonderful to see it all again.
Thank you for this video.
My family in Angeles/Clark 65-66. I was American Red Cross working medevac flights from Nam at the Casualty Staging Unit at the base hospital. Pop was Cmdr Det 9, 315th AD. I think our Mom was the first woman to motorcycle from Mindanao to Apari. How we loved our Filipino friends and my UP buddies. Great memories. Mabuhay!
Clark Air Base, the Philippines was the most dynamic base on earth. From US American Air Force Security Police Military Veteran. GOD bless the Philippines and GOD bless our country America.
I was stationed there from 82-85, then again from 86-90, right before Pinatubo eruption. My youngest daughter was born in 13AF Hospital. The AF had just concluded a massive, years long renovation of the place right before Pinatubo. There was new base housing, new commissary, an additional runway, and a newly surfaced main runway, new fire station for base housing, new accounting center, new Airmans and NCO clubs, and God knows what else, but there was something new everywhere you looked. The people there were the best part of the place though, all of them knew that you should always, "be nice, eat rice". you couldn't pass by a Filipino at meal times, they were always ready to share a smile and whatever they had to eat. The place really was, Heaven On Earth, and I count my years there as the best of my life !
I miss this place please bring back the old Clark 😅
My family was stationed at Clark in the mid-1970's. We lived on Postal Street, I attended Lily Hill Middle School, my little friends and I took cabs all over base (10 cents a mile!), I walked to the hobby center for oil painting classes, joined the base chapter of the Girl Scouts, ate the best french fries and grilled cheese at the BX cafeteria, had a blast at HOG, attended many events at the parade grounds (only a block from our house), experienced a typhoon...ah, memories!
A joy to see again a very important part of my life, my eighteenth year, in Angeles, me a foreigner, a Yank ['round eye', hee-hee], among the Filipinos.
What warm loving memories of these marvelous folks in Pampanga.
So glad to learn that Angeles has grown and improved her peoples' lives since this bad time.
My Dad, Muller L. Morel, was stationed there from 1987-91 when he was still Tech Sgt. in Air Force!!!!! Last time I was there I was 8 years old before we had to evacuate because of Mt. Pinatubo. We just moved to the base like for a couple months before we had to evacuate. I used to go to Wurtsmith Elementary School for kindergarten, 1st & 2nd Grade. I still remember Top Hat NCO Club, the Clark Air Force Base Hospital, Bowling Center, Kelly Theater & Cafeteria, BX, Toyland, the HOG, all brings back many memories for me!!!!! This video brings back many wonderful memories for me.Thanks for posting this video on TH-cam!!!!!😃😪
I was stationed there from September 1985-December 1989. Best base I was at hands down.
I knew your mother and saw her often, she was a friend and a beautiful lady. She was liked by everyone who knew her. I attended her memorial service at the base chapel and could not hold back the tears. There was not a dry eye in the entire chapel. You have every right to call yourself THEPROUNDSON.
Thanks for posting this.I was stationed there from 1981-87, 3 Combat Support Group (CBPO), . It's actually brought more memories than the first video I watched. Clark Air Base was a part of my life. Lots of good memories there.
I enlisted in the US Navy BECAUSE of Clark! My GF in the early 80s used to bring me to Clark where her Uncle was stationed. Her wonderful auntie (God rest her soul) used to treat us to Chicken Coop and The TopHat NCO Club. The US military left such a great impression on me that I enlisted at Subic a few years later.
I terribly miss the old Clark and Subic bases. We lost those bases by ONE, one solitary vote. 12 - against to 11 - for. SAD.
I was stationed there from 1968-69 as an SP. Did my time guarding those F4's on the flight line and watching the water rise up above my ankles when the monsoons struck in the afternoons. Great memories (except for the heat and humidity. lol)...
This video brings back good memories at Clark Air Base...
Thanks for the videos of Clark.
My wife and I lived at Clark from 1982 to 1987. I worked for the 6005th Air Postal Sq. and my wife worked for the JAG office. Keep the video coming!
I was one of the few navy personnel assigned to Clark. Our barracks were a short walk to the Coconut Grove. I used to eat at the restaurant, get my hair cut there, exchange pesos, and even go there on my lunch break to the Mirror Disco. I'll be returning to the Philippines in September. I hope to see some of the old clark. Good memories.
I know this was an old post for you but I was browsing old Clark videos and you say you were one of the few Navy assigned I was wondering if you were in the 6922SctyGp? I was AF but there was some Navy folks that had there own operations and secure area in the building but they never came out for anything until they left.... I was there from Sept 70 - Dec 71 then again Sept 72 - Sept 74......I had a good time and I remember the disco lounge at the airman's club but I stayed down town most of the time. I also noticed in these later videos there wasn't one taxi anywhere........I wonder if they got rid of them in the later years?
Excellent video. Brought back many fond memories of Clark A.B. when I was stationed there from 1976-1977. Kind of disappointed that there was no footage of the Medical Center though since it was my work area.
Mr Doyle My mother worked at the hospital during the same time you were at the hospital. Her name was Lucy Sprague and she was the head of the hospital appointment desk. We left the PI in 1971.
Thanks for the memories....
My wife worked with the 3rd CE on base.
hello..i want to say thanks to the person who posted this video here in youtube..i actualy live in this place up to now..since the americans left..filipino soldiers and their family live in clark..still remember coconut grove..me,my brother and other playmates go there to get some ruin things to play and i saw it burned down...can i ask what are the buildings beside the medical center...and there's no footage of the the school back then..
jade cruz hey jade were are you that time when its burned down? 1991 2001 my dad serve in that base..
Salamat po, pare.
those were the good old days when 13th air force was in clark air base..
Dang, I miss that time and that place
Thanks for the flash back. A1C DeWitt USAF Law Enforcement K-9 3rd SPS 79-80 D Flt.
My name is DOYLE PAULEY< Ret. AF Msgt. I was assigned to the Hospital Apr. 1961 - Apr. 1963 also Aug. 1968-June 1973. I remember some of the first wounded from Vietnam coming to Clark in early 1961 and the POWs in 1973. From 1971-1973 I was weekend Tour Guide at the Sliver Wing , an experience I will never forget. We had tours to the Rice Terraces,Bagio, Taal Vocano, Pagsanjan Falls ( my favorite) Manila Shopping, Manila Historic, Corregidor, Long Beach, 100 Islands. I lived behind 13th AF Hq.
This is funny. I used to deliver bench stock to the guy in glasses that was in the arts and crafts place. I think he is the "Wells" that had some of his photography on display.
What an incredible place. The HOG in Feb, Bars - Murphys, For Your Eyes Only, Holy City Zoo, Third Eye, Hard Rock Cafe, Flying Machine, Port Orient, Red Baron, Earthquake Mcgoons, Eight Ball, Fire Empire, Smut Hut, Firestone Empire, Puppy Lounge, Old Rangoon, Big Apple, Star Wars, Hobo Bar, Mirrors, The DMZ, cont.
thanks for the memories. 85-89 3crs INS shop
I was there for Cope Thunder in August (I think?) 1986 from Kunsan AB S. Korea "Wolfpack" (Yellow Tails). I loved the 2 weeks I was there, wish I had been assigned to Clark AB!!
I was there also with Charlie Proctor,Rex Robinson,John Clark.My jet was 579 yellow tail.Please respond if you get this.David USAF RET..............Sept.85-Sept.86
More bars around Clark AB: Buccaneer, Ceasars Palace, The Viking, Tropicana, Music Box, Sky Trax, Little Wheel, LBFM, Night Moves, Owls Nest, Show Boat, The Dormitory (Downtown AC), Abbey Road,
DD's Pizza, cigarettes sold one at a time, pepsi from a sari sari store sold in a baggy, wet T-shirt contests on Thursday nights, kids going into your pocket on Fields Ave when they thought you were drunk. Pork sticks, lumpia, sigsig, roast pig. Smell of aftershave in the barracks and sweat on honeyko.
Good day! I'm Dionne Calosa. We are currently producing a documentary program about Clark Air Base. We would like to ask your permission if we can use this video. Due credits will be given to you as the owner of the footage. Thank you very much!
Hey Virgil! Any chance I could get permission to use some of this footage in an upcoming Clark Air Base documentary I'm working on? Thanks!
Roslyn, we worked together in General Therapy Clinic. Do you remember Ken Heckman, We found each other on facebook in 2010 and we met a year ago for the first time since 1972. he lives close to Atlanta and I live in Biloxi Ms.
I was there in 1980-1982. Whatever happened or how the cards failed to drive the americans out was a blessing and rescue from God. The Americans are never ever coming back there. That place was a hell hole for 99% of the americans.
My Place what are you talking about, you are back there.
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It's a lot different now, all you'll see are establishments and call center companies.
@skydreamerXIII Agreed!!
86-89? my dad was there in 87 does the name Glassmeyer ring a bell? if not its ok i just want to learn more about what he did since hes so closed on it
Clark air base and its military reservation together with the Naval base Subic Bay was like a little america in the phillipines.
thats pretty awesome.
i hope Noynoy Aquino will approve to open a new US base in Luzon and work togheter with Phillipine and Taiwanese army.
hell no
Does anyone know Gary Dale in Air Force in Clark Base? Im looking for my father and my mother name is Josephine if that rings a bell to someone who was with my mom in those days.. And my father name is Gary dale, thats what my mom told me. 1984 to 1988 he was station around there but I know in 1987 he was there. I was born in1988
What happened to clark airbase when Mt. Pinatubo exploded?
abandoned
I found another friend that knew your mother, his name is Ken Heckman, Gave him your phone#, he should be calling you soon. Ken left Clark in 1972 and we lost contact until 2010 on facebook.
they shud have kept President Marcos &the U.S. should have thawrted any up rising against the Marcos's so instead they brought them to hawaii, the Philippines has been stagnant since the Marcos's left power and the U.S. always wanted to re install the Marcos's with a smooth transistion if possible no wonder there were so many coup attempts during Corys term, If Marcos was allowed to run Philippines with U.S. coaching until 1990 Philippines today wud be alot different country with u.s bases still
Marcos was very cruel and the filipinos suffered greatly under him and they hated the site of him..he forced everybody to vote for him.
@@myplace9969 very cruel only to the communists who want to take over his government and the very rich economy of the philippines. too bad Marcos was victimized by communists and traitors of the country, the Aquinos