Subic Bay – Page 6 – Philippine-Sailor

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).

Zg568, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg568, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. To Market to Market!

Zg567, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg567, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. Laundry! After we moved to Santa Rita the laundry girls gathered along the fence in their prettiest dresses to deliver finished work and to drum up business. On our side, one of the favorite evening pastimes was to sit and observe the proceedings, now and then yelling “magandang dalaga” […]

Zg566, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg566, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. Laundry! On our first day al Olongapo boys. girls and women come among our tents seeking laundry lo do. From that lime on one of our greatest chores was forgotten.

Zg565, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg565, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. Wow, they already called it City Hall then; Olongapo didn’t become a city until a few years later.

Zg564, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg564, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. Life in Olongapo in 1945.

Zg563, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg563, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. The Aeta, as they are locally called, do have a good size community, at the eastern edge on the greater former Naval Base, the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) now.

Zg562, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg562, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. During the years of enemy occupation Olongapo degenerated from a neat provincial town to a clutter of decrepit buildings whose peeling paint and patchwork repairs showed the “benefits” of the “Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere.”

Zg561, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg561, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. During the years of enemy occupation Olongapo degenerated from a neat provincial town to a clutter of decrepit buildings whose peeling paint and patchwork repairs showed the “benefits” of the “Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere.”

Zg560, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg560, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. I assume this is Dewey Ave. and we are looking from the Kalaklan Bridge.

Zg559, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945

Zg559, NCB-115, Olongapo, Subic Bay 1945. The Kalaklan Bridge, it looks like it had concrete pilings or bases since before the war.