Olongapo, Naval Reservation – Page 45

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Olongapo is the city outside the former US Naval Base and now outside of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.

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Zc746. This is a comparison picture of that Seabee Camp area, shot in July 2017.

Zc739. The Navy pier in 1945 was located on this beach area in front of the hotels, By The Sea and Grand Seas, who are located there now. The former Navy pier must have connected to these concrete pilings.

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Zc738. Behind that point of land is where Baloy Beach starts and on an old Spanish map that point is called Mangalinocwin Pt. Those hotels are along the access road to Baloy Beach which were all built after the US Navy pulled out in 1992. Notice the two Filipinos fishing by skin diving.

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Zc736. This is what is left over from the steel wall built with the interlocking steel strips, about a foot wide and ½ inch thick or more. This was the Navy Pier, built in 1945, for the Supply Depot in this area, called Maquinaya then, which is now called Barrio Barretto. We see a fisherman skin diving around the former pier. In the back of this image we see Grande Island in Subic Bay and a nest of ships that transloads iron ore from a big ship with Brazilian iron ore to a smaller ship going to Red China. This shot is at a real low tide.

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Zc735. This is what is left over from the steel wall built with the interlocking steel strips, about a foot wide and ½ inch thick or more. This was the Navy Pier, built in 1945, for the Supply Depot in this area, called Maquinaya then, which is now called Barrio Barretto. We see a fisherman skin diving around the former pier. In the back of this image we see Grande Island in Subic Bay and a nest of ships that transloads iron ore from a big ship with Brazilian iron ore to a smaller ship going to Red China.

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Zc740. This is a close-up of the last picture Zc728, these pilings and the concrete deck are located bay side of the Grand Seas Hotel. The former Navy pier must have connected to these concrete pilings.

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Zc733. Here is the same area and is called the Supply Annex; in this picture you can make out a large pier and a small vessel is moored to it. If you compare this ridge line with the one in the last image (ZC732) you must be convinced, like I am, that is the same ridge.

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Zc732. NSD means Naval Supply Depot and this is dated 1950; there is no doubt in my mind that the area pictured is where Barrio Barretto is now and which used to be the Maquinaya area. Kalaklan Point just got onto the picture also at right.

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Zc734. What a change, this is Barrio Barretto now! I tried to angle this Google Earth image like image #Zc728 and marked it with some relevant points in this album. The pictures # Zc732 and Zc733 show the Navy supply place which is called Naval Supply Depot (NSD) or Naval Supply Annex, it was built in 1945 and was used a number of years. This is located in the area that is called Barrio Barretto now (where I live now). I marked the approximate location of the pier on this Google Earth image. The next 7 images show what is left of the pier as of Sep. 2015.

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Zc730. This is a 1930 image of the Navy Rifle Range (a better description would be to call it the Marine Corps Rifle Range) located in the area called Maquinaya. It was also a swimming beach; the public beach is now called: Driftwood Beach. This area became Barrio Barretto. The river is still called Maquinaya River. This picture was provided by my Marine friend Bert Caloud.