Just to get your memories flowing...I always wanted to have a page showing
the reader what it was like to actually live in Frankfurt during our time. This
page will be updated from your ideas. Here's some topics, kind of in the
order I remember them happening:
Frankfurt Flughafen/Rhein-Main AFB
21st replacement
3AD replacement
drake tour
3AD museum
Edwards
unit orientation
bus ride-audio prompts/maps etc
train ride-U/S and D bahn
the tunnel before the PX-tapestries/flags-have you ever seen any of this stuff
anywhere else?
px kaserne
Abrahams complex
Tony's
Johns-Kitty and crew
The Hauptbahnhof
Sachsenhausen
list bars and stories from each [that could go on and on...]
Negativ
Kaiserstrasse
Eschborn
Saturn-Hansa
The Zeil
World of Music
Konstablerwache
The Pit Bull
Fillwoods
the canal run
Dippemess
German-American Fest
Oktoberfest
BUGA
square pizza on the zeil
brotchen
no, you don't put the wurst in the brotchen
no you don't put ketchup on anything-use mustard
fries and mayo
squid rings, frog legs
rocktoputz [sp?]-The crap they tried to make newby's drink at John's-exactly
what was that shit anyway???
Asbach
ouzo
Eisboch
DoppleBock
Weizen
DunkelWeizen
D'angelo's
Thanks to
FredK for the image.
Franks Soul food-the coca cola logo everywhere-Curry wurst and Fries/Frikadelli
the sub-zero walk from preungesheim to the kaserne, while hammered
Weißer stein
Tschüß!
Nordweststadt Centrum mall
the Trinkhalle around the corner
UP Gate guard
AFN guard and giant rabbits
88 Relay
the scaffolding and how it became an open air freezer-and a ladder to the female
rooms
waking up in strange places
waking up on the train in strange places
waking up at the train garage and walking home on the autobahn
waking up at the Konstablerwache train station and getting kicked out by Polizei
and their giant dog
Taking the wrong train home from the Monsters of Rock 1991 and ending up in
Bonn, sleeping in the tunnel with the bums
headstart class
OTP
FTX
Alerts
"Yellow" alerts-piss tests
CQ
Duty driver
CUCV-we had the axel rod come flying out of ours while turning a corner at a
reset stop on the way back from HTA
HMWV
Conex [sp?] and its many inventories why, oh why couldn't they keep track of the
last 10 times we did it, what does Conex mean anyway?
The snack bar
The rec center
The library
The split side walk-walk/ride
people pushing their way on the escalator-more of the walk/ride idea
getting up early, riding the train to work and finding the road conditions are
bad, so your wuss team chief called in and didn't show up [plus now you're
trapped at the kaserne cuz they won't let you leave].
Freezing your ass off at the bus stop, while every day CSM Coffey drives by, and
waves at you.