Subic Bay Freeport Zone – Page 10

Media Category: Subic Bay Freeport Zone

The former US Subic Bay Naval Base became the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Nov. 1992

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Zg394. (In picture 187) we see the new Harbor Point Mall, the medium floating dry-dock and the new and very big fuel tanks.

Zg393. (-185 and 186) plus the earlier image #177 are images on top of the Kalaklan Ridge Road/Trail at the approximate area above the Half Moon Beach area which houses the electric NGCP Olongapo Substation. On top of the trail people do live and at places the road is drivable. But today vehicles use a […]

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Zg390. (Image 174), for your orientation, left is the new SM Mall of Olongapo, where the Olongapo Hospital used to be. This picture really shows the big change from the Naval Base to a Freeport Zone. All the big structures left of the former NSD and behind Olongapo are all new and big structures of […]

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Zg391. (Image 176) also shows many changes. We see the Philippine Flag left of a high-rise and many other large buildings have been built on the former Naval Station. You should make out the words Harbor Point, that is a new Ayala Mall on the former Base (we have 4 Malls now in Olongapo and […]

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Zg389. (Image 173) shows Olongapo City in front, the former NSD with old and new warehouses with a merchant ship in. Left of it we see the former Naval Base power plant and the new one with a high exhaust stack; left of that we see one of the golf greens near the Binictican road.

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Zg388. (Image 171) shows a medium floating dry-dock, a Naval MSC ship at Rivera Wharf, the ex Naval fuel piers, with a 2nd pier and new big tanks left of it.

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Zg387. (Image 170) shows the new large SM Mall (SM=Shoe Mart) where the Olongapo Hospital used to be, and we see Santa Rita Mountain with its tower.

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Zg386. (-165) this is the road cut thru the ridge line which forms a point in Subic Bay and is now called Baloy Long Beach (part of Barretto and Olongapo City); this is the National Road to Zambales, our province. The road has been widened to 4 lanes and the new project is the road […]

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Zg385. (-164) is one more gas station in Barrio Barretto, we have now three. This picture is shot across the Maquinaya Bridge, the name of the river in Barretto, which had given its name to the Naval Rifle Range which used to be here until the Japanese occupation.

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Zg384. (-163) is our relative new hospital at the south end of Barrio Barretto, which went broke, is nearing completion after a complete renovation and adding one more storey under new ownership and management. We Vets hope they will engage TRICARE and get an agreement for it to be accepted here. In any case it […]