And i came from georgia my dad had a branch at papa shot and im distilled into a major movie called back marketplace. 18 years old i decided. Just walking downtown to sell a sign says sam wants you to put me in aviation cos maybe a show back then i dont know but man he needed good grades a sack passed around but we dont have a bass and bass about this event that we have one really this is a demo on the beach so he gave me a check to town and an artist noticed thing and thats why i havent ever said. On october 14th 1953 i went into the countryside with a bicycle and some cattle and i saw a convoy of cars coming towards me. Hey stand back get off the road. Things were very authoritarian back then so i guess somebody important was coming 5 and i. Could tell a person i was working at my office in the castle. And suddenly i dont know. Franco is here so i said sister what are you talking about franco yes she said franco is here so we went up to the keep and there he was. Franco was looking around and suddenly said could you please tell me where the salado reverse. Commute and i said it was there behind those trees. Ok ok he said and that was it he looked around a while and then said ok very well. From the left and everyone was wondering what he was looking for and why he had come to wrote. What we had already read in the newspapers that spain had signed a treaty with the United States and what it was all about. Is spain was not in any condition to negotiate and this would become obvious in the agreements it signed because they did the country a lot of damage. Right. Coming up. Right. If a foreign country attacked the base would have to defend it and defend the americans. Get offended like but listen if you have the most impressive firepower in the world and aircraft and atomic bombs because there were atom bombs here what are we going to defend for you. Know im out of and then i was out there. Writing your template of. About anyone not of my father at a place on a plot of land near a computer. Used to store 4 or 5 girls of wine in their dissent every year my eyes were swollen from crying when they drove me off our land and i was 17 years old when i told us we had to go and we left the doors open and all our stuff there and nearly killed me let me play my part of me. With it was a huge upheaval and hit everyone hard some people took their own lives hang themselves and so on but the most remarkable thing was that nobody realised there were alternatives that only came later be no they put. Your book media i remember the day i saw the 1st american jeep when they started surveying the area. I was looking after my columns and watched the monster drive into a pond and sink me. Me and my friends used to catch mackerel for a living out of there one day we were at. The 5 of us and a big guy came into the bar and said hey guys do you know where we can find some workers around here do you want to work so we started building the jetty and after wed finished a dutch engineer id met ask me and tony oh do you want to join the navy. I didnt have any more work so i said i dont have any papers here he said it doesnt matter my uncle is the commander do you want to join that i said of course man who doesnt you know so i was assigned to a tanker shipping oil from wrote to the warships in codis. This was during the draft so the draft if you werent doing well in school you know theres a potential to be drafted theres a combination of the single girlfriend losing my job and its like in school so i said i have to do something and i dont want to go to vietnam so i was Walking Around Downtown Portland oregon and the recruiters had a place of the Old Post Office and the Staff Sergeant sort of from his desk he looked again he said you want to join the marine corps right son and i said i sure do he said and you want to join for 4 years right and i said sure again and it was one time all day care over London England in naples and here was really varies from spain are going to spain. So a 2 time so that i really. Did not have to go to vietnam during the sixtys. C army green. The name from the United States i was born in a small town of 5000 inhabitants in pennsylvania. Electronics was my hobby but my parents couldnt afford to send me to college so i enlisted in the navy for my view during the final training sessions into Spanish Air Force sergeants told me just go to spain which there are a lot of pretty girls there by news which im heavy bonython which of bonita so i said ok then ill go to spain will be as luck would have it us when i was assigned to kano post a submarine support ship because i was a specialist in measuring equipment calibration and there was a laboratory on board to service the submarines that said lisa. There were only 2 main streets that grand all the way downtown from the base and Everything Else we just think feels like. Special because it was like back home they remind me of. Primitive people only different and noticed that when i went to town back in america i would. Always back hamburgers but over here i could. Copy you look at all the see you couldnt say that it was very Old Fashioned if you can i prefer to just say that it was very different cultures the cars the way people dressed the way the streets and buildings looked like they were all made from concrete and i came from pennsylvania where the houses were all timber and there were forests and things like that possible space ecosystem see. And they were. 10000 american soldiers and civilians and i mean. I remember it like it was yesterday. We were kids playing in the street downtown and suddenly the jets flew over. We were all paralyzed by the noise what the hell was that. Took a base because they were small helicopters we called them little devils. My mother was outside doing the laundry as usual and fled into the house yelling i saw a flying saucer. When the americans arrived they were 1st met with rejection mainly because some locals had lost their homes and land and were in a very difficult situation. And any kind of on their end when the americans arrived they didnt waste any time they threw coins and other stuff into the waiting crowd. Almost all of us on the dock bent down and tried to grab Something Better i want. To get you on your arm those were difficult years in spain. It was the postwar period and there was a shortage of everything. So when we kids saw the americans in the street we ask them for money to set up a set. And they say. Theyd give us coins are gone more candy or something because i could imagine that this was the tactic the americans used to build good relations with the spanish people on the floor i mean. That was that more. Than all right you buy all the horses were what we could strike anytime. That any. True love us or that wrote up the road to the base played a very Important Role in the cold war because it was on the atlantic and also very close to the entrance of the mediterranean that many there any silent mobile inducive lifted missile submarines the most survivable in our nations money not to clean out its palermos Nuclear Submarines can carry up to 16 missiles with a maximum range of approximately 424500 kilometers. Out of this little system from the usa it would have been too far to retaliate if the soviet union attacked. A city and pushed the stationing the submarines in rhode island and later in scotland made it possible to go to. Bush. I think it may have been because they ever do is a place where those ships can come to a place where they can store whatever they want to store i dont know where they store their. Weapons. Have a good air force. Planes for they could do. Complications from. The suffering tender there are sation there. Is just like a transition in place for europe for the minute training and later. For hundreds of thousands of young people find employment here. Growing need to produce things which make life better in peacetime can be our greatest protection in time of war. The finish quickly became dependent on the military base it created new jobs in the Hotel Industry taxi business and leisure activities. When i became mayor and i worked to build good relations with the naval base. They were the ones who could help us remember the Spanish State hardly supported us at all. At 1st the americans couldnt believe it they said your mayor you must make a lot of money but i didnt do it for money. Going up under the. I did it out of love for my hometown ties to the town develop quickly womanhood it was a time of great economic growth. Looking at the workers of the world i focus. On. My father took me to see a movie there was a scene where a plumber went to a house to fix a pipe he turned up in a car and i said to my father. Did you see that the plumber with the car. My father said it was propaganda and he simply could not comprehend that a plumber could have a car. And they go fundamentally its a no question. 1960 wonderful. Car started appearing in town everyone believed that the americans were all millionaires. To be going to. Like. It signals the beginning of a new era. Before the 1st manned moon shot like nasa brought the space capsule they would be using for the lunar journey here to test how it landed at sea a plane flew by and started dropping parachutists 14 or 15 of them carrying flashing lights sometimes 2 or 3 men went missing at sea because their lights had gone out and say that what could we do i took my boat out to sea and stop the engine i could hear one calling there is that i did that several times that one day they lost 5 men and i found all 5 of. Can you imagine how it feels to be 7810 miles from the coast alone with a parachute in the middle of the ocean its incredible when they when they jumped into my boat they hugged and kissed me like it was their wedding day. That you guys are going to be i. Was born of a little california my dad was in the navy and we moved from base to base to base and then we ended up the road to spank and i just remember getting off the plane and just hit by this wave of heat. It wasnt so much a Culture Shock for us at 1st because we were on the base and on the base we had all the amenities we were able to to stay on the base for the 1st few months that we were there and then we ended up moving off things. When i got here in 1969 i remember we had a apache. Donkey area mr keita and she scared the hell out of us we had to do a mood test every morning with a banana see she was going to buy this. When getting off base was just how Different Things were so there was a lot of places to explore and things to do but the people too i think they didnt have nearly as much as this they do today but i think i do think. That thats humility i think that in people being so friendly and reaching out even though i dont have much what i have i will give you and then are made her name was it was anna but like so many families that had the maids we kids grew up and sure if we felt like we were all want you know she would content that she can oh well. And she just loved us thats why i would be so nice and my mother loved her as well to. See when that that that when they came into direct contact. American women. Broke the local moral code. All these women had their own cars something almost unimaginable for the girls from voter were talking about the early 1960 s. They could easily obtain certain contraceptives that were not available in spain at the time. That women could do little more than read and write. The opening up of the dictatorship that took place in the late seventys began him much earlier. And he said the little woman had. What. I believe at last when the base was opened i worked as an assistant to the nurses there one of them Mary Chisholm became my friend she asked me what my greatest wish was and i said joking i want to go to america one day anyway so when i actually arrived in new york i was so impressed where am i am i in a theater id never let roger before because they were the only one even then we went to northwood massachusetts. And most of. The country there were wide roads and i thought why dont they build roads like this in spain. That. Day i said mother i looked at her parents house and went to high school with. Me today every week her mother gave me money but i didnt spend it i saved it all and i dont even know that our then no one then either see i want to. I wasnt aware that when i came back to spain i bought my mother a television the 1st one on our street all the neighbors came to watch it the neighbor across the street came to watch a bull fight when she saw the bull on t. V. She ran out of the house because she thought it was going to attack her. Nirvana recorded my brother was a famous bullfighter back then. And when he had bought a cadillac a primitive and organized a party and youre going to be there if you were going to have a memory i never imagined id meet an american you know so when i saw this guy that i liked him immediately he was well built women dont miss that kind of thing when. We had a very nice wedding we were very well known because of my brother so a lot of people came at a bullfight to systematise an american a black man he got a lot of compliments. And i did a few took a freedom. Day. I decided to break a new thermistor look. Broaching pimco that. He was a nice friendly person but he was domineering. Intensified investigation nothing in my life so anyway he finally got down to what you want to know how much money did you make a month telling. They were so happy for him even take him to god he said just one you know to take care of you promise me when you take a. Quick look at the i remember a part of the golf course was almost in the village so we kids used to go there you know there was a barbed wire fence there but there was 30 centimeters between the wires so we could slip through. The media. And we told each other if the americans catch us theyll shave our heads and make us play the drums in the hot sun until we drop. Not without. A doubt it was a whole different world for us back then there was a big gap between the backwardness in spain at that time in the American Standard of living that was going on. But thats when we went on base it was like being in an american movie. Because what we saw in the movies really wants their way of life youre seeing. Regular people when they played baseball they set up stands and we kids would go there and maybe get a pack of cigarettes or a beer. And they were like things from an alien world. We would have a 4th of july down which the forces you know we have a rodeo and we had a big rodeo right across from the drive in theater and thats where we would invite spanish to come on the base and experience a number slice of americana with us just as they would share the feria with the americans so it was very cool that cultural exchange. Supermarket symbol of the High Standard of living in this country today. And that is what interested the people in the outer most were the products in the socalled Navy Exchange the commissary which was actually the Americans Department store which the Navy Exchange just wanted to sell as much as possible they didnt care if you were american or spanish however they go to you severely in front of the base did they check just like they were running a customs checkpoint to come and. They had magazines like penthouse and so on which we didnt have and sports magazines here everything you can imagine every brand of tobacco a huge selection of food the meat for example was delivered from germany in refrigerated trucks it was fantastic meat if you could afford it and it was me from. Clean there was there was some American Products that you can buy everywhere today but at the Time Chocolate bars and cookies as well. And sunglasses were very popular in town the people who had access to the base bought them in large quantities and then sold them out of their garages eloy in the army. Although i always asked 1st i did get a lot of things from the base here. And i went so far that one day an american commander his name was captain yang said to me father if you go on like this and take everything with you will have to swim back to america. I took everything i could these people who know me knew that i didnt keep anything for myself it was all for the people of wrote. To. Me one day the chaplain told me he wanted to buy a stereo for a friend but he didnt dare take it off base because the civil guard would confiscated he asked me to pick it up for him i said sure so he bought it on the base and brought it to me i told him to put it in the car next to me he said but how would that work theyll see the packaging wont they i told him just put it there because im going to tell them the truth as i drove through the gate the civil guard stopped me and asked me what i was carrying so i said im smuggling their reaction was oh youre always making jokes father and they let me pass. Him a. Beer man of the el my brother had a record player because it was very rare in spain back then it came from the base free philco the american brand of phillips i loved music. But i was mainly influenced by a black man who was married to a woman from toronto. His name was chase. He owned a bar place. He. Played bass guitar and i used to sit there and listen to. People and apparently he noticed that and that i loved his music and so he used to give me all the records he didnt want anymore. And thats how i started listening to blues jazz rock. No there is other new music. He told us i must. Really really use to look after the soldiers overseas to make them feel at home the records went on sale there at the same time as they did in stores in new york chicago or london. And my friends used to buy them and then go home and listen to them until the cows came home. Because like a look at my home edition of. The Radio Station to which we still have the day if r. T. S. Back then they actually played great music struck and that was picked up throughout the area that could be received just this is as it is today and i believe thats the same thing that happened when england played music from the bases and it was heard throughout back in the fiftys back in the sixtys that everyone would pick up on and go my gosh this is great this is music we cant hear or get anywhere else and they started the station and wrote a summer 5960. 00 and they started out with just radio and then they added television. Hello there welcome once again to americas pop. This is a b. B. S. Feel that im here to bring you a half. Truth is a good decision about listening to the best Radio Station most like a martian was talking to us there was music everywhere you went and wrote and. Youd be walking down the street and going somewhere and suddenly you heard bob dylan on the radio. The 1st time around screw self who the hell is that. This was an incredible stroke of luck for our village we could hear new releases of the push of a button. It took much longer for them to arrive there than in other parts of the world at all you could want to completely have. Because you know the beatles everybody loved the beatles and they were always coming up with new stuff as well. And janis joplin and Iron Butterfly Rolling Stones the doors supreme so everybody loved the supreme
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