last. time so. 1960 wonderful. cars started appearing in town everyone believed that the americans were all millionaires. to be. like. the signals the beginning about you. before the 1st manned moon shot nasa brought the space capsule they would be using for the lunar journey here to test how it landed at sea a plane flew by and started dropping parachutists 14 or 15 of them carrying flashing lights sometimes 2 or 3 men went missing at sea because their lights had gone out today what could we do you know i took my boat out to sea and stopped the

engine i could hear one calling there is yeah i did that several times one day they lost 5 men and i found all 5 of them can you imagine how it feels to be 7810 miles from the coast alone with a parachute in the middle of the ocean it's incredible and then when they jumped into my boat they hugged and kissed me like it was their wedding day. oh look at that you guys are going to be. it was one of the little california my dad was in the navy and we moved from base to base to base then we had another row to spank and i just remember getting off the plane and just hit by this wave of heat. it wasn't so much a culture shock for us at 1st because we were on the base and on the face we had all the amenities we were able to to stay on the base for the 1st. a few months

that we were there and then we ended up moving off to school. when i got here in 1969 i remember we had a pet and pet dog and her name was chiquita and she scared the hell out of us we had to do a load test every morning with the bananas who she was going to buy those. women getting off base just how different things were so there was a lot of places to explore and things to do but the people to i think you didn't have nearly as much as this thing today but i i do think. that that's humility i think i in people being so friendly and reach out even though i don't have much what i have i will give you and then are made her name was it was anna like so many families that had the maids we kids grew up in sheaf we felt like we were all one you know she would kind pension that she can oh well. she just loved us that's what i would be so nice so my mother loved her as well to.

see when the better better when they came into direct contact with american women. that broke the local moral code. all these women have their income something almost unimaginable for the girls from that. we're talking about the early 1960 s. they could easily obtain certain contraceptives that were not available in spain at the time. that women could do little more than read and write. the lady anything up that's the dictatorship that took place in the late seventy's began him much earlier. and he really didn't win it i. for. one don i was barely lost when the base was opened i worked as an assistant to the nurses there one of them. mary chisholm became my friend she asked me what my

greatest wish was and i said joking i want to go to america bonded together and so when i actually arrived in new york i was so impressed where am i am i in a theater i've never lived wrote a before they were real they wanted to give anything then we went to northwood massachusetts. and most of the. country into the world wide roads and i thought why don't they build roads like this in spain. that. day i said humanity i looked at her parents' house and went to high school. and today every week her mother gave me money but i didn't spend it i saved it all. yet all the time our then no one here to see i want to go there. i was like you know what that when i came back to spain i bought my mother a television the 1st one on our street all the neighbors came to watch it the

neighbor across the street came to watch a bull fight when she saw the bull on t.v. she ran out of the house because she thought it was going to attack a. nearby no record it my brother was a famous bullfighter back then. he had bought a cadillac and organized a party and everything and i mean i never imagined i'd meet an american so when i saw this guy that i liked him immediately he was well built women don't miss that

kind of thing when. we had a very nice wedding we were very well known because of my brother so a lot of people came a bullfight a system marries an american a black man he got a lot of compliments. and i did a peter go for it all right. david until. i decided to bring a new thermistor look. relative to the cause i want to marry the guy he was a nice friendly person but he was domineering. intensified investigation nothing in my life so anyway he finally got down to what you want to know how much money do you make among. my pay was so high for him. to take into account he says i just want to know if people take care of you promise me when you take a very very. quick

google you know not part of the i remember a part of the golf course was almost in the village we kids used to go there. there was a barbed wire fence there but there was 30 centimeters between the wires so we could slip through and. not make the last. and we told each other if the americans catch us they'll shave our heads and make us play the drums in the hot sun till we drop. it out it was a whole different world for us back then that there was a big gap between the backwardness in spain at that time in the american standard of living. so bare ground. that's not when we went on base it was like being in an american movie because what

we saw in the movies really wants their way of life. a lot of people when they played baseball they set up stand was and we kids would go there and maybe get a pack of cigarettes or a beer. and they were like things from an alien world. we would have a 4th of july down the beach that forces here we have a rodeo and we had a big rodeo right across from the drive in theater and that's where we would invite spanish to come on the base and experience a slice of americana with us just as they would sure the feria with the americans so it was very cool that cultural. supermarket

a symbol of the high standard of living in this country today. and that is what interested the people in the most were the products in the so-called navy exchange the commissary which was actually the americans department store which the navy exchange just wanted to sell as much as possible they didn't care if you were american or spanish.