Yes its all pretty common place in america. The comfortable home we live in the cars parked in the. Park mechanical gadgets of all cars. School for every car has a right to expect an education. Satisfying recreation for everybody. American you are. A. Woman every. Time. I came from georgia my dead ahead ranch had a pump a shot and im distilling the a major movie called back marketplace. Taking years old im descended. Just walking downtown and i saw a sign says sam wants you. He put me in aviation comes in aviation back again i dont know but now he needed good grades passed along but we dont have a base in. This if we have one really this is down on the beach so he gave me a check. And already noticed. And thats why i havent ever said. On october 14th 953. 00 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 alive and i. Could tell up on the console i was working at my office in the castle. And suddenly i 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 what the salado reverse. 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. 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. One of the. People. Right. If a foreign country attacked the base we have to defend it and defend the americans. The friend doesnt 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 also. Right here freed of. My father at a place on a plot of land near a computer. Me used to store 4 or 5 barrels of wine there to sell every year my eyes were swollen from crying when they drove me off our land and i was 17 years old and they told us we had to go we left the doors open and all our stuff there and nearly killed me. And my thought of me for. What 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 we know they put. A lot of the media. I remember the day i saw the 1st american jeep when i started surveying the area view it and i was looking out my columns and watched the monster drive into a pond and sink you mean like him do. Not hit him out of me and my friends used to catch mackerel for a living there one day we were at a spot 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 that after wed finished a dutch engineer id met asked me antonio do you want to join the navy. I didnt have any more work so i said i dont have any papers yet 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 to the warships in codis like. This was during the draft sell the draft and if you werent doing well in school there was a potential to be drafted it was a combination of the senior girl for losing my job and going to school so i said i have to do something and i dont want to go to vietnam so i was Walking AroundDowntown Portland oregon and the recruiters had a place of the Old Post Office and the Staff Sergeant set up for me. Yes he looked again he said you want to join the marine corps right son i sure do he said and you want to join for 4 years right and he said i sure can and it was one time all day cuba London England name force and here was a very stroke risk they are going to speak. So 2 times that i really. Did not have to go to vietnam during the sixtys. Army green. I came 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. Of a few during the final training sessions and 2 Spanish Air Force sergeants told me just go to spain where there are a lot of pretty girls there would be this by news which im heavy beneath them which of bonita so i said ok then ill go to spain o. B. D. As luck would have it i swear 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 are said. That. There were only 2 main streets their grand way downtown from the base and Everything Else we just picked feels like. Special because it was like back home they remind me of. People only different time notice that when i went to town back in america i would i would always be hamburger but over here i couldnt find a hamburger and a cop if you look at all the seats i didnt say that it was very old. Fashion 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 about 10000 american soldiers and civilians and to me that. I remember it like it was yesterday. We were kids playing in the street downtown and suddenly the jets flew over. Here we were all paralyzed by the noise what the hell is that. Ok. 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 because some locals had lost their homes and land and were in a very difficult situation. And any kind of on their own here when the americans arrived they didnt waste any time they threw coins and other stuff into the waiting crowd i think almost all of us on the dock bent down and tried to grab something into the better way to. Get you on your arm we. 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 asked them for money to set up a center. And theyd say. Theyd give us koreans or gum or candy or something. I could imagine that this was the tactic the americans used to build good relations with the spanish people on the flip. Side that might. Represent more by far. By all the forces of world war 2 we can strike anytime. That any. True let us say that wrote the road to 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 silent mobility to use in the lifted missile suffering the most survivable element in our nations money no. Palermos Nuclear Submarines can carry up to 16 missiles with a maximum range of approximately 424500 kilometers of those part of this little system from the usa it would have been too far to retaliate if the soviet union attacked. City and pushed stationing these submarines in rhode island and later in scotland made it possible they took them in and discussed the bush. Tolo to possibly. Think it may have been because they ever do is a place where those ships can come in place where they can store whatever they want to store i dont know what their story their. Weapon. Is have a good ear for music players for they could do the calculations for. Live. They have a submarine tender that was stationed there. A transitional place for europe for the minute training and. For hundreds of thousands of young people find employment here. Growing they do 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 but they were the ones who could help us do the spanish they 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. So theyre going up under the. I did it out of love for my hometown the ties to the town develop quickly womanhood it was a time of great economic growth. Last. Year old looking at the workers of the world i focused. 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 its a feel my father said it was propaganda the way he said it was simply could not comprehend how the plumber could have a car. Then go funtime ever thats a known question. Was. 1960 wonderful. Big cars started appearing in town everyone believed that the americans were all millionaires. To be getting. Like. 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 like 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 today what could we do you know i took my boat out to sea and stopped the engine i could hear one calling there yes i did that several times one day they lost 5 men and i found all 5 of them can you imagine how it feels to be 7810 miles from the coast alone with a parachute in the middle of the ocean. Its incredibly lonely 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 a village california my dad was in the navy and we moved from base to base to base and then we ended up in row 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 to school. When i got here in 1969 i remember we had a pet and a pet dog and her name was chiquita 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 bite us. 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 true i think they didnt have nearly as much as this they do today but i i do think. That thats humility that i think i in people being so friendly and reach out even though i dont have much what i have i will give you and then are made her name was it was anna like so many families that had the maids we kids grew up in sheaf we felt like we were all want you know she would come in pence that she can oh well. And she just loved us thats what i would be so nice and my mother loved her as well to. See when the bit about it when they came into direct contact with american women. That broke the local moral code. All these women had their incomes something almost unimaginable for the girls from well. Were talking about the early 1960 s. You know 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 in your. Local market lately everything up of the dictatorship that took place in the late seventys began him much earlier. And you dont win it i. For. One god i belong to the 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 on the again remember when i actually arrived in new york i was so impressed where am i am i in a theater ive never left wrote a before. Were only one epoch of an event we went to northwood massachusetts. In the. Capital to their world wide roads and i thought why dont they build roads like this in spain. That. Has humanity i looked at her parents house and went to high school. And to do it every week her mother gave me money but i didnt spend it i saved it all and i never you know that have our then no one here to see i want to. I wasnt you know was 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 a. New ban on my brother was a famous bullfighter back then. When you have bought a cadillac and organized a party. And you were going through memory i never imagined id meet an american 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 a bullfight a system marries an american a black man he got a lot of compliments. And i do that if you know. I decided to bring a new thermos look. At your paper because i want. 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. My pay was so high i am eager to take him to god he said just want to know can you promise me when you take a. Quick look after 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 a lot. 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 that there was a big gap between the backwardness in spain at that time in the American Standard of living. Through bare ground. Thats not 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. A lot of people deal when they played baseball they set up standards 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 that forces you know we had 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 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 decide what interested the people in the 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 grew out of you severely in front of the base did they checked us like they were running a customs checkpoint back again and. They had magazines like penthouse and so on which we didnt have and sports magazines 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 i mean look at me from the n. S. A. Evidently never there was some American Products that you can buy everywhere today but at the Time Chocolate bars and cookies as well. Right and sunglasses were very popular in town the people who had access to the base put them in large quantities and then sold them out of their garages. In that case. Although i always asked 1st i did get a lot of things from the base. 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 people who know me knew that i didnt keep anything for myself it was all for the people of wrote. 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 confiscate it 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 bother and they let me pass. Him it was. The amount of the my brother 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 chases 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 theres other new music here. He told us i must. Be really used 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. Lyon my friends used to buy them and then go home and listen to them until the cows came home. One who the 1st took a look at my home of. The Radio Station to which we still have the day if r. T. S. Back then but they actually played great music throughout 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 rode a summer 5960. 00 and they started out with just radio and then they added telling. Their bucket whats again to americas pop. This is a debate its failed at im here to bring you our entertainment is a good musician. Listening to the base Radio Station was like a martian was talking to us there was music everywhere you wonder and roger. Would 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 if at all you could get that i want to think when they got. You can go the beatles Everybody Loves the beatles and they are always coming up with new stuff as well and channels chop plan and Iron ButterflyRolling Stones the doors supreme sorry buddy love the supremes. Catch jimi hendrix. And all the base housing you can walk in a corner and you sure. Been cranked out of one stereo you would hear jimi hendrix out of another stereo you would hear this Carlos Santana praxis coming out of another stereo certain japanese or rock and. Most of them in our main hobby as teenagers was music to them and one thing led to another that we tried to form a band. And we were very young back then maybe 12 years old i played guitar but if i took a Classical Guitar and put steel strings on it they cut my fingertips ripping off the bass player simply remove 2 strings from a Classical Guitar leaving just for. Our drummer made his drums from detergent cartons which he cut to size and then covered with glossy paper but. This is one of the. Other component is one of the members of the band the radars was a carpenter a cabinet maker a very good craftsman. He made my guitar neck by hand. And cut out the body with a song. Like that. Youre wondering i was 14 when i arrived here and my mother told me dont go down im going to do something not. The sort of malicious i meant when there were other ways to get to school but we defied our parents and always walked along the avenue to san fernando which was busier than all the other streets in the city. But then i wrote actually consisted of 2 different towns one along a cairo car about to go very traditional and the other along ive been either something under very american thats right the american bars or casinos were the last thing i know. They dont let you go there under this so yeah there was this girl from london her name was janet. She was pretty dressed in a way we were used to here and. We were she was very fond of her and a mini skirt. And a kind of fur jacket and if i get the most freaked out she was the real thing. Because because of. Climate that is a given that you arrived here in december 1718 i had no more than 5 pounds in my pockets and i remember my parents saying to me what are you going to do for a living what are you going to do and the next day i started working at the Training Camps in. The in which i was so many i remember saying to my mother its like the las vegas of the southwest. And there were people of all colors on the street rafter was pretty colorful be a match up there was a lot of partying and there was a bar outside if that was lets say a bit illegal you see. Right there was a tiny new york. Never slept. Trying to involve the locals but it didnt work out maybe because of the double standard life. That. Theyre looking for. Drinking. One day i came out of the library and saw and i will never forget this a long queue of men in front of a brothel in the avenue. My friends told me that we should stay home and not go out while the 6th fleet was in town. And that you know of them which on the street was full of women on both sidewalks as they waited for the soldiers to come off base those who were granted leave because they did not get it at the same time there were about 6000 of them imagine that 6000 young men in their twentys in a small town when things get of. Your manager venereal disease. If you fail. Every time they dont want a real disease very take. One day we got a letter from the commander of the 60 saying several members of his crew were infected with an aerial disease. In the. Me and. The American Ambassador biddle duke even came to. Ask me whats going on here and. I said nothings going on sir show you everything here. So i took him to the bars on the 2 cabarets and thats all there is an author. Thats all there is mr duke. Now ok he said and left what was it. So for him. No. Prostitution brought a lot of money into the town. The local authorities saw right as a violation of religious morality and set up a commission to protect women both locals and outside as from what they said with bad influences. To mr kagan and the flip. Side judge from seville sent me a letter. He said you and i could work something out there are too many prostitutes in rota. His solution was to throw them all in jail i replied that i had a different strategy to marry the man i married a lot of girls almost all of them to americans. I dont know any of them who married a spaniard you know only one of. You american boy. Soldiers civilians were college boy. Youre killing your own people and yourselves not with guns. With automobiles and. We were always warned keep out of trouble dont talk about politics dont molest women and dont do anything else that isnt completely proper course fellows will charge but of course there are a few bad apples in every basket right. There always a few boys who cause trouble in town once in awhile. Almost get the best and quite look out on a scandal when she come on. Shell be crowned. The world will see who will remember most of course i remember one incident as the americans were celebrating their Independence Day some drove in from the beach at point 0 connaught completely drunk. In question no one dominant there was a man with 3 children im talking one time or he took he said. And doesnt courses as their car came off the road and crashed into the donkey with the 3 children and killed them all. You cant imagine the outrage this caused interest. Since youre a member of the armed forces some will be under military control until the trial yes sir. Yes he and his children were buried the next day and the need be compensated their mother by giving her a job on the base in the case was never heard again. Police say that. We the jury find the defendant not guilty. I really do look forward to my wife. Thats all i intend to do 30 days recovery. To come happened when frank would die that we were just told hey just go back to business as usual if you see protester you see anything happening just go about your business and and stay out of trouble. You. Dont help just mean. Everything. Good gal. And the. Good thing. About. Hillsong golf. Ball. But nothing. When the ships left it was left time and dry and. You could tell they werent here anymore weve lost so many jobs its not a good thing to live in a mystery to me on the matter after i stop driving taxis i started to work in a bodega hired my own business and sold mine on the base i had an idea and i could go in and out as i wished i dont know what its like there today i dont go there anymore you know ive been there for 40 years the place they and only anyone in time you know. The towns Cultural Roots had almost been lost. Later about 30 years ago the old identities started to resurface again with people were looking for their own traditions again. The feria san ysidro festival of the Virgin Carmen festival all these things that had been forgotten at that time have now returned and. We even have 14 churches in the city again weve got the vehicle if you. For me this is the really interesting the greatest Culture Shock for me because i grew up here from 8 was not coming here it was going back it was going back to the United States that was my Culture Shock because i went back and 16 years old and i go oh my goodness going back to my uncle i didnt know what to expect i didnt remember from a spain was how they didnt experiencing other cultures that see how different you are in it is a good move even if we went to a town nearby it seemed alien to us quite different from our own problem and most of it was a great time it was a magical place rota spain back that was they say a bubble a fishbowl but it was very special that was a beautiful time period and in this town and even the early eightys but yeah everybody speaks of the golden years of proto and theres always kind of like a misty foggy memory there she should have been here in the sixtys and seventys. Because india. How can a countrys economy grow harmony with its people but when there are doers look at the Bigger Picture india a country that faces many challenges pensions people are struggling just. Sustainable future clever projects from europe and india. 30000000 on the b. W. Economies cant function properly even in times of demand without skilled workers. Was inadequate housing. With food shortages. Scarcity is increasingly making things difficult for companies and entire economy whats causing it and what can be done to combat the problem. Made in germany 90 minutes on d w. What secrets lie behind these memos. To find out that immersive experience and explore fascinating world Cultural Heritage and science. D w World Heritage 360 the beauty of. 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