Camp King, Oberursel

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  • @trumpmypresident4721
    @trumpmypresident4721 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank-you for getting back to me. Seeing Camp King brought back many "good" memories. Thank-you again.

  • @dariendeloatch4337
    @dariendeloatch4337 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Was stationed there from 90 to 93 thank you for the video. Looks very familiar and different at the same time. Like to see the barracks and the mess hall. Miss Camp King

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think those buildings have been torn down and replaced with new apts. now. I worked at the snack bar in the bowling alley until April 1990, and was very pregnant then.

  • @David-iu9pq
    @David-iu9pq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Building at. 8.30 was the 1st. TMCA Building. I used to work in the motor pool. From 88-92. I started with 4th Transcom and finished with 1st TMCA. Thanks for the video and the great memories!! Spc. DV.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much for sharing your memories. I worked in the bowling alley from 1987-1990. Did you go in there?

  • @GenPatton10
    @GenPatton10 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Was stationed there 85-86. Such a great place. Thank you for the walking tour. I saw a few buildings I remember.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for writing. A lot of the buildings are gone, but glad a few of them are still there.

    • @shaneyoung9739
      @shaneyoung9739 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey by chance did you know Pyle.

  • @brad81150
    @brad81150 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dad was an MP and worked in one of those small buildings 78-81 we lived in Edwards Kaserne on outside of Frankfurt. However, We spent a lot of time at the bowling ally and he also played fast-pitch softball so we were there for the games. Sad to see how much has changed.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  ปีที่แล้ว

      It looks so different to when I worked there from 86-90, but it is nice that it is a beautiful, livable neighborhood now. The Taunus mountain lodge was empty for a very long time.

  • @nelsoncolon174
    @nelsoncolon174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @11:38 that was my building. Upper floor all the way to left (bldg 983). The last building was not the daycare, but where I used to work, 570th MP PLT (Railway)...then again, yes you are right, it could have been considered a daycare...
    Awesome job! thank you!!!

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the information. Not sure how my memory could be failing after working here for almost 4 years.

    • @danorock8559
      @danorock8559 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember being station with you there Colon and you are correct that is tge 570th MP Plt. I remember when you found a nazi helmut up on a high ledge inside an abandoned nazi air raid bunker. Good to hear you alive brother. (Bort)

  • @LisaPerkins-g4l
    @LisaPerkins-g4l 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks so much for the memory jog. We were there in the mid 80s. Cary was an MP and I worked in Admin, but we lived on the economy in Bad Homburg. I still have the Becks Bier bottle opener from the bowling alley (sorry).

  • @gentlegto
    @gentlegto 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, I was stationed in Camp King From October 19,1974 thru Dec 1977. It was a Transportation post, Best years of my 22 years in the U.S Army. I Believe where the Eiz Cafe is use to be an Italian pizza joint, where I use to frequent .Best Pizzas in the world .I really miss Camp King.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks. Hope you can come back and visit sometime, though it looks very different now.

  • @Digephil
    @Digephil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just moved into an apartment here, it's nice to learn about some of the history of Camp King. It's a great place to live now, easy transport to town and my wife and I go hiking in the woods all the time.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The apartments up here are lovely. It must be nice to live so close to the Taunus mountains. The place has a fascinating history if you look it up.

  • @michelleshawgo6217
    @michelleshawgo6217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So cool to see my old stomping grounds! Lived there 81-85. Soooo many changes! My building is still there... the first one on the right, as you enter the post. I lived at the very far end on the 3rd floor. So crazy to see this after 36+ years. Thank you so much for taking us down memory lane!

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Happy to hear your building is still here! Glad you enjoyed the video.

    • @caryschroeder4514
      @caryschroeder4514 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first historic building you came upon way in on the left was a barracks while I was stationed there in 87-89. I lived there for a year of my time at Camp King. The following neighborhood you walked through was not all offices. It was housing for the officers and other higher enlisted. This is the neighborhood you walked through before the Taunus Mountain Lodge. The Lodge was already not in use in the late 80s. We just stored things in there.

    • @shaneyoung9739
      @shaneyoung9739 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @caryschroeder4514 I was there when you were. Did you play football on Sunday in the center field. I was in the new 36th AG DPU. My last name was Young.

  • @luvmy2cv
    @luvmy2cv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much for showing how much Camp King has changed from 1965! I use to work at IRCD the building just northeast of the main administrative building. My building was formerly the Nazi Commandant’s homeland office. I think they have saved it. My two years there were the most wonderful years of my life. I didn’t want to come back to the USA, but my father bribed me with a new VW if I would return to university. My biggest regret of my life!

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, thank you for the information about the use of the building. Was hoping to reach former residents and those who were posted here. So fascinating to hear this.

  • @karenhillisskipper
    @karenhillisskipper 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So cool. I was a child when my dad was stationed there between 1978-1982. Our apartment building was 1051 - farthest on the left if you stood at the original entrance. I am so grateful for that experience - it was truly formative. Germany will always be home to me. Thank you for the lovely, thoughtful tour!

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So pleased you enjoyed it and that you have good memories of living here. I worked here from 1986-1990.

  • @siskavard
    @siskavard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Memories! I used to sneak into the bar area & play pinball games. I remember also sneaking into one of the office buildings & running around & getting scolded by some officers, lol.

  • @nunyabidness9895
    @nunyabidness9895 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a lovely old neighborhood! I've heard of Camp King but never visited. I was in Hochst.

  • @afrtsfan
    @afrtsfan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the tour. It's funny how you (we) can spot military housing and buildings from a km away. Doesn't matter which post, you can just tell.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you liked the video. Military housing just has that certain look to it.

  • @fredschloss9517
    @fredschloss9517 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My family was stationed there from about, (ungefaehr" ) 1960 to July of 1964. My friends were Steve Downs RIP, Mike Thomson (RIP) and Tom Maguire, who's still with us. It was a grand time, with lots of Bier from Zum Weissen Ross (my computer will not give me an ess-tzet). We avoided soldiers and drank with the German farmers, etc. It was wonderful. Great times, only brief occasions left. For those of you who may have met him, Steve Downs is deceased, and, from our group, I'm all that's left. EAGLES UEBER ALLES.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for sharing your memories of Camp King.

    • @fredschloss9517
      @fredschloss9517 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@frankfurtonfoottours2361 My memories of CK and Oberursel are all very pleasant. I was ready to return to Oberursel a day or two after I left it.

    • @fredschloss9517
      @fredschloss9517 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@frankfurtonfoottours2361 Some of the best memories of my life. On the other hand, I have NO desire to return after seeing what's been done to it. How Boring. I realize it's not your fault, but to me, it's terrible. There was a time when I actually returned to Camp King with my wife and my mother in law. They held us at that gate until some scared to death E-6 came to show us around, something that he wasn't good enough to do. I showed them two or three times and told the E-Six that if he was that scared, he should find another profession. He was pitiful

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fredschloss9517 At least some of the old buildings are there. Lots of old posts in Frankfurt are completely gone. Nothing left at all.

  • @ScholarJones
    @ScholarJones 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Also, there in the mid-80s... Worked as a programmer/analyst for 4th TRANSCOM... I also ran the Camp King Theater in 1985.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for sharing some memories. I got there right at the end of 86, running the LRC for a few months and then switching to the snack bar in the bowling alley.

  • @varmintx
    @varmintx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hardly was able to recognize anything. I lived in the 2nd building to the right as you came through the gate. Even the lodge has changed from the old pictures. Lived there 1965 - 66.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The lodge saddened me, they changed the exterior so much. The last time I had seen it was in 2010 and it had been renovated, but was still unused.

  • @danorock8559
    @danorock8559 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The last building you showed used to be the 570th military police platoon railway guard

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much for the info. It had been too many years since I had worked up there to remember most of the buildings. Please share more.

  • @bradcolip7110
    @bradcolip7110 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The building at 8:30 held 1st TMCA Wartime Movements Branch on the first floor, the second floor was used as an operations center for REFORGER exercises. The top floor was my commo shop as well as equipment storage. This was during the 1988 to 1989 timeframe.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I managed the Snack bar in the Bowling Alley, so not sure if you remember me? Was there from 1986-1990

  • @thachuckster9375
    @thachuckster9375 ปีที่แล้ว

    Caught the U-3 to get to the main PX in Frankfurt from the Kupferhammer stop just outside of the base . Resided in BLDG 1012 (probably gone) from '85 to '87

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  ปีที่แล้ว

      I used to take that same U-bahn every day to go to work there in the Bowling alley.

    • @shaneyoung9739
      @shaneyoung9739 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was there when you were there my last name was Young and we always played football on the big center field of Camp King. Do you remember the Big American and German day back then.

  • @tonytaylor4545
    @tonytaylor4545 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was there from 1968-1971as a dependent...Mark Willingham was one of my best friends.. along with David Horton & Mike Murphy...God Bless you guys no matter where you are 50 years later. Boy, did we ever have fun back in those days on that Historic post. I pray all of you guys are still alive....

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for commenting. Hopefully, they will also see it and respond.

    • @Wiegee3112
      @Wiegee3112 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We were based there in 1961 prior to being transferred to Heidelberg. I was only six but have vivid memories of Camp King. Did you know that East German or Soviet snipers would occasionally shoot through the wire when there was an important defector?

  • @jimmyrichardson8133
    @jimmyrichardson8133 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used to sled down this hill in front of the lodge..

  • @carstenrupieper8574
    @carstenrupieper8574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who are you?-i grew up with American troups in Frankfurt. You're voice sounds familia, Carsten 😁

  • @trumpmypresident4721
    @trumpmypresident4721 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was stationed with the 570th Military Police Railway back in 1980 to 1981.
    I take it there's no more "Camp King" military post.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No, they closed in 1992 I believe. All the military left Frankfurt by 1995, and Rhein Main closed around 2005 I believe.

  • @shaneyoung9739
    @shaneyoung9739 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was there from 85 to 88 did you know Quinnones who worked with Joe in bowling alley? I can't believe this my barrack was right next too the theater.

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I knew Joe & Nate at the bowling alley cause I worked there too. 87-90.

    • @shaneyoung9739
      @shaneyoung9739 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @frankfurtonfoottours2361 I was the President of the bowling ABC league in 87. I remember Ltc. Sheldon nominated me cause we got are Licher bier mixed up. Did you know Hal Morgan and Eric Bufford possibly also. I have to know you also unbelievable. Excellent channel

    • @frankfurtonfoottours2361
      @frankfurtonfoottours2361  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shaneyoung9739 The names don’t sound familiar to me. I remember Pooler.
      I worked with a lady named Amma but quit right before I gave birth in May 1990

    • @RQJQQuin
      @RQJQQuin 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Shane this is Quinones from Camp King. How are you doing?

    • @josephcollier1342
      @josephcollier1342 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      How are you doing Shaney, still here in the Oberursel area. Every time i go by or into Camp King (it's still Camp King to me) I have one hell of a flash back. Those was the days my Friend.

  • @markusnoack8061
    @markusnoack8061 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Das kenne ich auch noch