Let me start off by saying thank you for your service to our great country! Your videos are gold! Not only am I a Cold War era history buff but also I’m a life long new Englander born in 1981 and always vacationed in Seabrook NH in the summers growing up. Let me tell you boy do these videos really bring the nostalgia teary eyes effect up! So much has changed but so much has stayed the same in the seacoast area!
Thank you for that and it was my honor and privilege to serve and I'd do it again a thousand times over! In those days, I was but a few who had video equipment like that-per the expense at the time and I felt compelled to record history, as something inside of me thought it might be important someday. I had no idea that social media and such would exist some 30-plus years in the future, but God knew and he guided my hand. I'm 71-years young now and would love to revisit my beautiful New England before I leave this earth...some of my best memories there. My then wife-Barb-has since gone on to be with our Lord and proud to say that we created some good video memories together...thanx again my friend.
@@CHUCKHUFFMANPRODUCT my pleasure Chuck! What did you do in the Air Force/SAC? You really have done a service with the cataloging/recording of history of what some would call everyday life but it’s truly like a time capsule and tugs on your heart strings for sure! And will provide generations to come with visual and auditory multimedia to experience the places you visited thanks to your foresight to videotape them! I’m actually a pilot, have my private license and I’m instrument rated as well and have flown into Pease many times during my training. My home airport was/is in Beverly Airport in Danvers/Beverly, MA. I noticed you were stationed up in Loring as well, simply amazing the video footage from there as well! One of my longest flights was to that area up to Presque Isle! My condolences to you on your wife’s passing, it’s not easy, I lost my mom to breast cancer at a young age myself and you truly have to approach the way you do by having faith in our Lord and to put all anxiety and worry to the side with the comfort that He is always with us all and one day we all will be together again😊! What a great way to remember those good memories with your wife through these videos!
@@HayastAnFedayi Thank you and I served as a Security Policeman from 1978 to 2000-my entire career and couldn't see myself doing anything else. I spent most of my career in SAC-of course (LoL). Many of my fondest memories are my years spent in New England; and loved the great people there! If/when I'm blessed enough to head that way again-I'll let you know and I can shake the hand of a true patriot. Stay safe out there my friend!
@@CHUCKHUFFMANPRODUCT ditto my friend it would be an honor to shake your hand as well! My name is Craig btw def keep in touch! One of my aviation heroes/role models is General Curtis Lemay, even to this day it amazes me with how he created, developed, and ran SAC into the awesomely powerful shield of America and the free world as President Kennedy referred to it. On a side NH note you will be happy to know the Yoken’s Whale Sign is still up on RT 1 even though the restaurant is long gone🤪😂
@@HayastAnFedayi I hate that Yokem is not there anymore, as that should have been dubbed an historical landmark-but you can't fight progress. One person wrote back to me in the comments that the young man behind the counter in the Jug-a-lug store was his grandfather! He got to see his grandfather on video as a young man-how cool is that? Others have seen different loved ones from the past as they were back in 1984. It feels good to have been able to give them such a rare gift-God is good!
I didn't live in Portsmouth but in the Lake Sunapee area, but traveled the area on vacation. It's great seeing Yoken's again! I have a Pint Glass from the Gift Shop, just before they closed. It's wonderful seeing all the old Cars cruisin' around! Seems like traffic was crazier driving then than it is now. I especially chuckled when I saw the old 70s Thunderbird with the box on the roof. Talk about a blast from the past! Thanks for posting. It would be interesting doing a video retracing the steps of where you went in this one.
You are so welcome and it was indeed a labor of love filming it back then and posting it. Before I leave this earth, I would love to retrace my steps in that area, as well as northern Maine and share the video(s) with the rest of the world.
We lived there for 2 and a half years when I was stationed at Pease AFB and loved the area-even the cold weather in the winter time didn't bother us...great memories!
@@Skeletone914 Wow! What a small world!! It's like going back in a time machine to view the past. I'd had people write in who weren't even born yet telling me that this person or that person was their senior relative (parent/grandparent/aunt/uncle) and it makes me feel really good that I had the presence of mind on those days to shoot those video-who knew?!
Wow! Who could have known?! A lot of great memories there! I was stationed at Pease AFB from Sept-1978 to the end of Nov-80. When we first got there, because of my low rank, we couldn't get on base housing, so we had to live on the local economy and that was the only place my wife Barb (God rest her soul) could find at the time. By the time I got promoted to the rank wherein we could get base housing, it was time to get transferred to my overseas assignment! We lived in that tiny apt the whole time and no regrets...thanx for sharing.
Thank you brother and doing those videos was a labor of love. Who could have known all those videos would be so precious to so many people some 35-plus years in the future? So happy to hear from you and happy that you & yours are doing well.
Thanks so much and it was a labor of love. I'm so grateful now, that I had the presence of mind then, to get that precious video footage...who could have known that it would mean so much to so many people several decades in the future?!
Wow! That's something. What a beautiful area that was back in the day and I'm sure it still is. I'd love to get back there some day just to take it all in once more.
"What we're pulling onto now is called the Spaulding Turnpike, and you've got to be fast when you get on this because these people around here are crazy." Still true today
Thanks for posting this. I lived in this area my whole life and always wanted to see what Portsmouth and other surrounding towns looked like decades ago. All the places in Portsmouth now weren't even there 30 years ago. Starting with that wooden area next the Yokens Restaurant which is now Market Basket. Have you ever been back in Portsmouth in recent years?
I remember That Day that afternoon I was getting ready to attend my friend Wendy’s Graduation from St Thomas Aquinas which I had graduated from the previous year 1983
Wow! I did not know that! I'm happy that I had the presence of mind at the time to create that video tour of Portsmouth for future generations to see what we enjoyed during those good old days.
Thanks for this. I was a 9 year old kid in June 1984 living in Stratham NH when dad was stationed at Peace AFB. We moved to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana in 1985. I think I remember Yokens. I remember some Sunday mornings after church eating brunch at a restaurant with a whale on the sign, I'm guessing that's the one.
@@CHUCKHUFFMANPRODUCT I know its crazy your lucky if you could do the speed limit on 95 these days Friday evenings northbound and Sunday evenings southbound you can forget about it nothing but a parking lot
I enjoyed the tour of New Hampshire. I was stationed int he Transportation Squadron from June 1988 to August 89 and drove those roads in blue AF buses, staff cars, vans, pick ups as well as a tractor trailer. I think your video showed the round-about in the beginning, didn't it? Good times. Thanks
Let me start off by saying thank you for your service to our great country! Your videos are gold! Not only am I a Cold War era history buff but also I’m a life long new Englander born in 1981 and always vacationed in Seabrook NH in the summers growing up. Let me tell you boy do these videos really bring the nostalgia teary eyes effect up! So much has changed but so much has stayed the same in the seacoast area!
Thank you for that and it was my honor and privilege to serve and I'd do it again a thousand times over! In those days, I was but a few who had video equipment like that-per the expense at the time and I felt compelled to record history, as something inside of me thought it might be important someday. I had no idea that social media and such would exist some 30-plus years in the future, but God knew and he guided my hand. I'm 71-years young now and would love to revisit my beautiful New England before I leave this earth...some of my best memories there. My then wife-Barb-has since gone on to be with our Lord and proud to say that we created some good video memories together...thanx again my friend.
@@CHUCKHUFFMANPRODUCT my pleasure Chuck! What did you do in the Air Force/SAC? You really have done a service with the cataloging/recording of history of what some would call everyday life but it’s truly like a time capsule and tugs on your heart strings for sure! And will provide generations to come with visual and auditory multimedia to experience the places you visited thanks to your foresight to videotape them!
I’m actually a pilot, have my private license and I’m instrument rated as well and have flown into Pease many times during my training. My home airport was/is in Beverly Airport in Danvers/Beverly, MA. I noticed you were stationed up in Loring as well, simply amazing the video footage from there as well! One of my longest flights was to that area up to Presque Isle!
My condolences to you on your wife’s passing, it’s not easy, I lost my mom to breast cancer at a young age myself and you truly have to approach the way you do by having faith in our Lord and to put all anxiety and worry to the side with the comfort that He is always with us all and one day we all will be together again😊! What a great way to remember those good memories with your wife through these videos!
@@HayastAnFedayi Thank you and I served as a Security Policeman from 1978 to 2000-my entire career and couldn't see myself doing anything else. I spent most of my career in SAC-of course (LoL). Many of my fondest memories are my years spent in New England; and loved the great people there! If/when I'm blessed enough to head that way again-I'll let you know and I can shake the hand of a true patriot. Stay safe out there my friend!
@@CHUCKHUFFMANPRODUCT ditto my friend it would be an honor to shake your hand as well! My name is Craig btw def keep in touch! One of my aviation heroes/role models is General Curtis Lemay, even to this day it amazes me with how he created, developed, and ran SAC into the awesomely powerful shield of America and the free world as President Kennedy referred to it.
On a side NH note you will be happy to know the Yoken’s Whale Sign is still up on RT 1 even though the restaurant is long gone🤪😂
@@HayastAnFedayi I hate that Yokem is not there anymore, as that should have been dubbed an historical landmark-but you can't fight progress. One person wrote back to me in the comments that the young man behind the counter in the Jug-a-lug store was his grandfather! He got to see his grandfather on video as a young man-how cool is that? Others have seen different loved ones from the past as they were back in 1984. It feels good to have been able to give them such a rare gift-God is good!
I didn't live in Portsmouth but in the Lake Sunapee area, but traveled the area on vacation. It's great seeing Yoken's again! I have a Pint Glass from the Gift Shop, just before they closed. It's wonderful seeing all the old Cars cruisin' around! Seems like traffic was crazier driving then than it is now. I especially chuckled when I saw the old 70s Thunderbird with the box on the roof. Talk about a blast from the past! Thanks for posting. It would be interesting doing a video retracing the steps of where you went in this one.
You are so welcome and it was indeed a labor of love filming it back then and posting it. Before I leave this earth, I would love to retrace my steps in that area, as well as northern Maine and share the video(s) with the rest of the world.
We lived there for 2 and a half years when I was stationed at Pease AFB and loved the area-even the cold weather in the winter time didn't bother us...great memories!
that is actually my grandfather who was at chug a lug in your video
@@Skeletone914 Wow! What a small world!! It's like going back in a time machine to view the past. I'd had people write in who weren't even born yet telling me that this person or that person was their senior relative (parent/grandparent/aunt/uncle) and it makes me feel really good that I had the presence of mind on those days to shoot those video-who knew?!
That was my apartment above the Chug-A-Lug from maybe 2007 to 2011. It was a vets office then.
Wow! Who could have known?! A lot of great memories there! I was stationed at Pease AFB from Sept-1978 to the end of Nov-80. When we first got there, because of my low rank, we couldn't get on base housing, so we had to live on the local economy and that was the only place my wife Barb (God rest her soul) could find at the time. By the time I got promoted to the rank wherein we could get base housing, it was time to get transferred to my overseas assignment! We lived in that tiny apt the whole time and no regrets...thanx for sharing.
Msgt. Huffman glad to see your videos. I was one of yours with the 42nd SPS at Loring. 86-89. Remember you well.
Thank you brother and doing those videos was a labor of love. Who could have known all those videos would be so precious to so many people some 35-plus years in the future? So happy to hear from you and happy that you & yours are doing well.
You can tell who lives there and who **moved** there with these golden words:
**Thar’ She Blows!**
LoL I hear you my friend! I look fondly back on those old memories of that place and even kind of miss it. Thanx for the shout out.
Love it I lived in Portsmouth for 26 years
I grew up in Elwyn Park near the Chug-a-lug and Yokens. Hard to believe this was shot over 30 years ago. Thanks for the memories.
+alxlan I have no idea where the time went! It was a labor of love video taping it.
I don't think the Chug a Lug is there anymore. Hmmmm maybe I'll take a ride down sometime and check it out.
I was 24 when this was filmed... And I worked at Pease AFB around then... Nice video....
Thanks so much and it was a labor of love. I'm so grateful now, that I had the presence of mind then, to get that precious video footage...who could have known that it would mean so much to so many people several decades in the future?!
A walk down memory lane. Thanks for sharing!
My grandmother lived at 209 Lafayette Rd. up until 1970. Huge house. It's still there. Seen it on line.
Wow! That's something. What a beautiful area that was back in the day and I'm sure it still is. I'd love to get back there some day just to take it all in once more.
"What we're pulling onto now is called the Spaulding Turnpike, and you've got to be fast when you get on this because these people around here are crazy."
Still true today
Yup, but at least the acceleration lane is long enough now so you can easily match speed!
I think it was worse then. People REALLY didn't know where they were going back then! No GPS.
I was stationed at Pease from 86-92' Great base- awesome memories !
Thanks for posting this. I lived in this area my whole life and always wanted to see what Portsmouth and other surrounding towns looked like decades ago. All the places in Portsmouth now weren't even there 30 years ago. Starting with that wooden area next the Yokens Restaurant which is now Market Basket. Have you ever been back in Portsmouth in recent years?
+John Monteiro Not yet, since 1988, but do plan to revisit before I leave this earth. Great memories.
@@CHUCKHUFFMANPRODUCT did you ever get to? the place where you lived is now a veterinary hospital. there's still a picnic table in the same spot!
I remember when they cut down those trees opposite Yokens they did it in 1991 and the market basket plaza opened in 1995
Kind of sad that Saint James Church which was next to the Chug a lug store has been torn down and replaced by over priced Condominiums
I remember That Day that afternoon I was getting ready to attend my friend Wendy’s Graduation from St Thomas Aquinas which I had graduated from the previous year 1983
Wow! I did not know that! I'm happy that I had the presence of mind at the time to create that video tour of Portsmouth for future generations to see what we enjoyed during those good old days.
Thanks for this. I was a 9 year old kid in June 1984 living in Stratham NH when dad was stationed at Peace AFB. We moved to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana in 1985. I think I remember Yokens. I remember some Sunday mornings after church eating brunch at a restaurant with a whale on the sign, I'm guessing that's the one.
the Traffic in video was nothing compared to what its like today that shot of I95 was the most dead I have ever seen
Wow! Who could have known back then?!
@@CHUCKHUFFMANPRODUCT I know its crazy your lucky if you could do the speed limit on 95 these days Friday evenings northbound and Sunday evenings southbound you can forget about it nothing but a parking lot
Nice video...I moved to Fl. right around this time....Good memories....
data general closed in 1990
I enjoyed the tour of New Hampshire. I was stationed int he Transportation Squadron from June 1988 to August 89 and drove those roads in blue AF buses, staff cars, vans, pick ups as well as a tractor trailer. I think your video showed the round-about in the beginning, didn't it? Good times. Thanks
+jharrington211 I'm with you in my love for New Hampshire and especially that area. Great people and great memories.
Woolworth when was the last time you saw a Woolworth
LoL I think they went the way of the dinosaurs. So many of my childhood memories are gone these days-sad.
I was stationed at Pease AFB from 4/82 thru 10/85 and drove those roads quite a bit, although I lived up in Dover, NH.
Thar She Blows!! ;-)
Great Memories of Yokens!
". . . that candle-pin crap" . . hohehahehhow! Famisin' Deideighdeugh!
Wow! Funny how people don't pronounce YOKEN'S the right way.....even when they are looking at the sign.
It's weird with out the eyesore of the werz tower
Damn. I was 3 years old.