As a tie-in to a recent post by our friend Peggy at Camera Go Camera of our old neighborhood (US Navy Area 2 Military Base Housing) in Japan. Here’s a picture of our house at 283-D Area 2 after a rare light snowfall.
Our US Navy base house in Honmoku, Naka-Ku, Yokohama from May 1977 to February 1980. We were the last Navy family to live there as the US Navy was in the process of turning over control of the land to the Japanese Government.
US Navy housing Area 2 looking east towards the bay. This part of Yokohama was still very industrial in the late 1970s. Our house is the blue two-story in the middle left. This shot was taken on a nice and steamy hot August day.
Camera: Canon F-1 on Kodachrome 25 color slide film
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Chris and Carol
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That looks very different, I would not have recognised it.
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I know, it took us a while to get our bearings but the retaining walls around the big hill are what clued us in. When the Japanese government took it over they did quite a bit of landscaping to transform what was once there into the pleasant neighborhood it is today. We had such big yards around our houses – the locals were always intrigued by how much space we had. I am surprised that there are as many grassy areas today.
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Thanks for posting this, I lived there as a kid, but didn’t know the city.
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Awesome! What years were you there? Chris
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i lived in area 1 from 75-78 brings back memories
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It was an awesome area to be stationed. We loved cruising around Yokohama and the surrounding areas. I wish we could go back.
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I lived there those same years, were you a kid then?
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Love these pics! I was trying to find a pic of the dispensary where I worked when stationed in Yokohama. Lived in the Navy Lodge. SO many memories of this area. Thanks for sharing
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Thanks! We were there between 1977 and early 1980. My wife was the manager of the Yokohama Navy Lodge.
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Small world! I was there from ‘77-‘79! We must have crossed paths! I was a hospital corpsman. Carried a drunk marine on a stretcher down several flights of stairs at the Lodge on more then one occasion!
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Yep. My wife remembers having to call the SPs on more than a few occasions when the Marines and Army guys blew into town on leave and liberty. My wife enjoyed showing people around Yoko and the surrounding area. Small world indeed.
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I remember living there in 1977. I was a child then. Even though it was a duplex style I remember the house being so big that we didn’t have enough furniture to fill the house.
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They were big. We got furniture from the housing office to try and fill some of the rooms. It was a great place to live.
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I lived in area1 76-78… 30-C
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