Media Category: Subic Bay
This category encompass, the former Subic Bay Naval Base,-Naval Station,-Naval Air Station Cubi Point, the former Olongapo Naval Station,-the prewar Olongapo Town and the present Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) under the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).
Ze418
Ze418. This is the last shot; about 1 and ½ km more we quit the walk and decided to home to Subic Bay, we seen enough. At right, we believe, is the area the GIs of the 32nd Div called the Punch Bowel. If you like to learn more about the Battle of the Villa Verde Trail check out this URL: http://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1694/villa-verde-trail-balete-dalton?page=1 T his is the new Pangasinan-Nueva Vizcaya Road which follows the old Villa Verde Trail down along the North-South Ridge which runs parallel east and next to the Ambayoan River. This picture was shot on the 13th of June 2019.
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Ze355
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
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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Ze360
Ze360. I believe I captured the same area of the Redondo Peninsular as in the last picture of the USS Carl Vinson is arriving in Subic Bay 1984 (from Google Earth). In that area a new coal powered power plant was started but I understand it has been halted because it has been challenged in court.
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