Subic Bay Naval Base post 1960 – Page 8

Media Category: Subic Bay Naval Base post 1960

US Marines and Navy after 1960 in the Subic Bay area.

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Ze419. (-01) I start this album with 5 maps or images; this is a recent Google Earth image of the Kalaklan Point area in Olongapo and the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) Kalaklan Gate area.

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Ze427. -14 this is the Olongapo City Cemetery at the Kalaklan Point; I use this route sometime to get on top of Kalaklan Ridge here.

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Ze426. (-13) this is the famous Kalaklan Point-Curve and Olongapo City Cemetery.

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Ze425. (-12) this is the famous Kalaklan Point-Curve and Olongapo City Cemetery. This Kalaklan Point-Curve is a dangerous one; many a motorbike rider laid down his machine here!

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Ze424. (-11) this is Kalaklan Point in Olongapo City, Subic Bay, 2019-03-14. The busses park there until the time to pick up workers on the base (SBFZ).

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Ze356. The former Transient Personnel Unit (TPU) a friend of mine was the OIC at one time and told me, during his time he had 64 legal holds. Receiving unit and billeting office.

Ze355. The former Main NEX and Commissary building and area by the numbers: 1= is a huge supermarket called “Duty Free”-it is located next to the former NSD; 2- gas station, 7/11 store and a pizza place; 3= the Mitsubishi car dealership; 4= is the brand new Toyota car dealership (nearby, off camera, Ford and Chevrolet also have dealerships here; 5= is the new Subic Expressway (about 10 km long) off the former base and connects with other Luzon express ways (right now it is widened to 4 lanes); 6= is a full service Petron gas station; 7= is the road to Binictican Golf Course and housing, the road is also widened and lengthened to Cubi Point; 8= was our own McDonald and had just opened a few years before base closure and closed with the base closure ( don’t be sad we have now 2 McDonalds in the SBFZ); 9= was our former Main NEX and Commissary building (it is a big Supermarket with a small department store section, I go shopping here) ( many other commercial enterprises opened shop around and in this area); 10= was our own NEX gas station and car service shop (it is still a gas station and car wash, I use it all the time).

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Ze354. The Subic Bay Naval Base power plant in 2019 and the greater area around it with descriptions by the numbers: 1= the old Naval Base Power Plant (not being used); 2= the new SBFZ Power Plant; 3= the horse stables (they were completely rebuilt); 4= an additional smaller fuel pier was built; 5= this was a hill and was used to build the new container port as fill and these new huge fuel tanks were built; 6= Toyota-the new car dealership (nearby, off camera, Ford and Chevrolet also have dealerships here; 7= the Mitsubishi car dealership; 8= New commercial development (just before the Base Negotiation the Navy started a new hospital and dropped it before the end of the negotiations); 9= a huge new commercial development (we only had wetland and a skeet shoot here); 10= our former Main NEX and Commissary building (it is a big Supermarket with a small department store section).

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Ze353. The Subic Bay Naval Base power plant in 2019, as far as I know it is not being operated now, a new one has been built. It seems most equipment is still there.

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Ze352. The Subic Bay Naval Base power plant in 1983, as far as I know it is not being operated now, a new one has been built. An aerial view of US Naval Facility power plant.