Alternately called "Black Market Alley" or "Skivvy
Alley," this was the first stop for the ship sailor on liberty.
YOKOSUKA: The Town
Venture outside the main gate and it's a different world.
Alternately called "Black Market
Alley" or "Skivvy
Alley," this was the first stop for the ship sailor on
liberty.
 Souvenir shops & bars abound-pretty tame in the daylight. |
 Night Train was pretty typical of the bars. |
The New Bon and Moon Palace were two
of hundreds of bars in Yokosuka
The drink of choice - Asahi
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Of couse the Navy provided alternate libations
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Club Alliance, the
Enlisted Men's Club was the former Imperial Japanese Navy
Officer's Club.
I'll bet we had a lot more fun there than they did.
For instance, they never had a County & Western Band!
We had the "Honshu Cowboys" performing in the Corral
Room
Saikaya Department Store, Yokosuka, 1957.
Just 10 years after the occupation, the Japanese were
celebrating Christmas, complete with Santa Claus.
Take a trip back in
time through the eyes of a sensational men's magazine writer.
I have copied his fabled account of the world outside the main
gate.
SAGA Magazine, January, 1958
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