Zg766. This is one of 5 images I shot on the 31st of March 2024 (Easter Sunday) from the ridge behind my house which I like to call the Hotel Marmont Ridge. The pictures are of Barrio Barretto and Subic Bay, shot from right to left and they are uploaded here in high resolution.
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Various pictures of Subic Bay in 2024
Started this album in March 2024 and will put various pictures here of Subic Bay which don’t fit into other venues.
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Photo description for the first 5 images:
This is one of 5 images I shot on the 31st of March 2024 (Easter Sunday) from the ridge behind my house which I like to call the Hotel Marmont Ridge. The pictures are of Barrio Barretto and Subic Bay, shot from right to left and they are uploaded here in high resolution.
The pictures are available in high resolution in this Flickr album, click here:
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3rd Apr. 2024 News Items from Subic Bay
The replacement of the former Naval Base Main Gate Bridge is finally making progress. This picture is shot from the 5th Floor of the SM City Mall, Down Town Olongapo, just across the Main Gate Bridge. Interestingly, this E Vehicle Charging Station exists here now on the 5th Floor, parking floor, for about a month, according a guard there.
Zg770. The former Naval Base Main Gate Bridge is finally making progress
Zg771. The former Naval Base Main Gate Bridge is finally making progress
Zg772. The former Naval Base Main Gate Bridge is finally making progress
Zg773. E Vehicle Charging Station, SM City Mall, Down Town Olongapo
This E Vehicle Charging Station exists here now on the 5th Floor, parking floor, at the SM City Mall, Down Town Olongapo, for about a month, according a guard there.
Subic Bay News 2nd Dec. 2024 Update
#01 Picture. The Fleet Reserve Association San Miguel Branch 367 (FRA 369) is located along the Zambales Highway, outside the former US Naval Communication Station San Miguel which is now a Philippine Naval Training Command. The members and other foreigners still meet every Wednesday and “Sit n Bull”. Four old divers got together; from left to right: Rick Storment, Bill Loudermilk (standing), Hy Spaulding, Karl Welteke and Gary who is an in-law to Hy. By the way, the golf course, now in the Training Centers is available to us Veterans and other foreigners, it is popular with us Veterans
#02 Picture. This is an image across Subic Bay from above Barrio Barretto towards the former Agusuhin Valley, when the Marines used it for training it was called Green Beach and the Quarry, then they dug a whole and built an oil platform there and shipped it out. Then South Korea built a shipyard and many big ships. Now it is under the management of an American enterprise which leased out the North-End to the Philippine Navy as and Operating Base.
#03 Picture. This is now Barrio Barretto, now my home after my Navy retirement in 1991. This valley used to be called the Maquinaya Rifle Range and Marine Corps field training area, that’s what it was until the Japanese invasion in Dec. 1941. The river here still has that name! The US and Philippine Army on Grande Island, then called Fort Wint, used it too, some of their 155mm mobile artillery guns were here. The US Army and Navy liberated it at the end of Jan. 1945 and it became a Naval Supply Depot until about 1959 when the Navy returned it to the Philippine Authorities with the Zambales Governor Barretto presiding, hence its name. All the high buildings and all the new looking buildings in this picture were built after 1992, after we left!
#04 Picture. What a surprise, today was my banking day and I decided to cruise back home via the Waterfront Road on our former Naval Base Subic Bay to have a look at the Hell Ships Memorial. I’m standing there with the Lt. Col. Matibag Philippine Armed Forces Ret., he was the Corregidor Foundation Executive Officer and was in charge of the historic ruins and buildings plus the Pacific War Memorial on the Island. Corregidor was passed to a different management and he became a member of the Filipino-American Memorial Endowment Incorporated (FAME). As such, he was here today at the Subic Bay Hell Ships Memorial to do some maintenance work. On the 13th Dec.2024 a commemorations is scheduled at the anniversary of the Hell Ship Oryoku Maru sinking here in Subic on the 15th Dec. 1944. The memorial is located in front of the former Naval Base and the Present Subic Bay Freeport Zone Headquarters, you should be able to recognize the Alava Wharf extension in the back of the memorial..
#05 Picture. The former Naval Base Subic Bay, now the Subic Bay Freeport Zone Main (SBFZ) Gate Bridge has been replaced and is open for traffic. It is now called the Magsaysay Bridge; it leads into the Magsaysay Drive in Olongapo City. This project was worked on about 5 years, there must have been problems, money, technical or financial, I don’t know. How can I take a picture from this high up? I’m standing on the 5th floor, the first parking floor, (there are 2 more, higher) of the Shoe Mart (SM) Mall one of at least 3 malls now in the Olongapo City and SBFZ. The new gate is open; the building at right is the East End of the Ayala Mall “Harbor Point”.
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