you know what i call today cyclists the holy week procession and. they only lack the candle and the lighter to light the candle. i never want to mince words the oldest living toward a france winner declined an invitation to witness this year's event firsthand opting to watch it on t.v. instead. you're watching the news more at the top of the hour. and for. language courses. video audio. anytime anywhere. w.

yes it's all pretty common place in america. a comfortable we live in a car parked at the door of. the pike mechanical got to topple our car. for every child has a right to expect an educated. satisfying recreation for everybody. american you are. here. a. american. came from georgia my dad had a branch at the shop and i'm distilling. major. back marketplace. taking the piss out of. just walking downtown. says sam wants you. put me in aviation council maybe they should back again

i don't know but man he needed good grades pass along but we don't have a decent pass along this is that we have one river he says down on the beach so he gave me a chair. and already noticed. and that's why i have never seen. on october 14th $953.00 i went into the countryside with

a bicycle and some cattle and i saw a convoy of cars coming towards me. hey stand back get off the road. things were very authoritarian back then so i guess somebody important was coming online and i. could tell up on the i was working at my office in the castle. and suddenly i don't know. franco is here so i said sister what are you talking about franco yes she said franco is here so we went up to the keep and there he was franco was looking around and suddenly said could you please tell me where the salado reverse. commute i said it was there behind those trees. ok ok he said and that was it he looked around a while and then said ok very well. from the left and everyone was wondering what he was looking for and why he had come to wrote. what we had already read. the newspapers that spain had signed

a treaty with the united states and what it was all about. is spain was not in any condition to negotiate and this would become obvious in the agreements it signed because they did the country a lot of damage. from your. book. if a foreign country attacked the base we have to defend it and defend the americans. to defend their life but listen if you have the most impressive firepower in the world and aircraft and atomic bombs because there were atom bombs here what are we going to defend for you. know i'm alive and then i was out there ok.

right here in freedom. that anyone not of my father had a place on a plot of land near a computer. me used to store 4 or 5 girls of wine there to sell every year my eyes were swollen from crying when they drove me off our land and i was 17 years old and they told us we had to go we left the doors open and all our stuff there and nearly killed me me and my thought of me for. what it was a huge upheaval and hit everyone hard some people took their own lives hang themselves and so on but the most remarkable thing was that nobody realised there were alternatives that only came later you know they put. your bloodstream in the. i remember the day i saw the 1st american jeep when i

started surveying the area that i was looking out to my columns and watched the monster drive into a pond and sink for me like you do. the time i did it i'm not mean my friends used to catch mackerel for a living out there one day we were at. the 5 of us and a big guy came into the bar and said hey guys do you know where we can find some workers around here do you want to work so we started building the jetty that after we'd finished a dutch engineer i'd met asked me antonio do you want to join the navy. i didn't have any more work so i said i don't have any papers here he said it doesn't matter

my uncle is the commander do you want to join that i said of course man who doesn't you know so i was assigned to a tanker shipping oil from wrote to the warships in cuddy's. and. this was during the draft so the draft if you weren't doing well in school you know there's a potential to be drafted there's a combination of missing my girl for losing my job and going to school so i said i have to do something and i don't want to go to vietnam so i was walking around downtown portland oregon and the recruiters had a place in the old post office and the staff sergeant said after ms did. he looked

to be nice and you want to join the marine corps right son i sure do he said and you want to join for 4 years right and i said sure get any worse one tunnel take you over london england in naples and here was really very good for over a span are going to spain. so 2 times that i really. did not have to go to vietnam during the sixty's. army green. i came from the united states i was born in a small town of 5000 inhabitants in pennsylvania. electronics was my hobby but my parents couldn't afford to send me to college so i enlisted in the navy. during the final training sessions and to spanish air force sergeants told me just go to spain where there are

a lot of pretty girls there by use by you which imo had a bunny that much of bonita so i said ok then i'll go to spain little baby as luck would have it us when i was assigned to canopus a submarine support ship because i was a specialist in measuring equipment calibration and there was a laboratory on board to service the submarines are said. that. there are only 2 main streets there grant all the way downtown from the base and everything else we just think feels like. special because they were like back home they remind me of. primitive people only different times notice that when i went to town in back in america. i would always hamburger but over here. the head cop you know could only see it i didn't say that it was very old fat. i prefer to just say that it was very different the cars the

way people dressed the way the streets and buildings looked like they were all made from concrete and i came from pennsylvania where the houses were all timber and there were forests and things like that possible space ecosystem see. the 2nd there were about 10000 american soldiers and civilians and to me that is if you need to know what it was you know i remember it like it was yesterday. we were kids playing in the street downtown and suddenly the jets flew over. we were all paralyzed by the noise what the hell was that. ok base. they were small helicopters we called them little devils. my mother was outside

doing the laundry as usual and fled into the house yelling flying saucer. to. let you know that when the americans arrived they were 1st met with rejection mainly because some locals had lost their homes and land and were in a very difficult situation. and any kind of wondering iraqi when the americans arrived they didn't waste any time they threw coins and other stuff into the waiting crowd. almost all of us on the dock bent down and tried to grab something better when. you're on your arm we. were difficult years in spain. it was the post-war period and there was a shortage of everything. so when we kids saw the americans in the street we ask them for money center. and they'd say. they'd give us corn. things are gone more candy or something because i can imagine

that this was the tactic the americans used to build good relations with the spanish people in the flood i mean. that was that more. than all right you buy all the forces world war 2 we can strike anytime. that any. true love us or that wrote up the road to the base played a very important role in the cold war because it was on the atlantic and also very close to the entrance of the mediterranean that many there silent mobile inducive the listed missile submarine the most survivable element in our nation's money not to clear out its palermo's nuclear submarines can carry up to $16.00 missiles with a maximum range of approximately 424500 kilometers that was pulled out of this

little system from the usa it would have been too far to retaliate if the soviet union attacked. a city and pushed the stationing the submarines in rhode island and later in scotland made it possible to get them in and. bush. possibly. may have been because there were there was a place where those ships could come in place where they can store whatever they want to store i don't know where they store their. weapons. have a good air force there is a place for thank you do the operations for. suffering

chander there was stationed there. is a transitional place for europe for the minute training and. hundreds of thousands of young people find of climate here. growing need to produce things which make life better in peacetime can be our greatest protection in time of war. the finish quickly became dependent on the military base it created new jobs in the hotel industry taxi business and leisure activities. when i became mayor and i worked to build good relations with the naval base. they

were the ones who could help us to move on to the spanish state hardly supported us at all. at 1st the americans couldn't believe it they said your mayor said you must make a lot of money but i didn't do it for money. going up on the day. i did it out of love for my hometown to the town develop quickly womanhood it was a time of great economic growth.

last. year old looking at the workers of the world i focused. on. my father took me to see a movie there was a scene where a plumber went to a house to fix a pipe he turned up in a car and then i said to my father. did you see that the plumber with the car it's a feel my father said it was propaganda he said he simply could not comprehend the plumber could have a car. and they go fundamentally it's a no question. was . 1960 wonderful. cars started appearing in

town everyone believed that the americans were all millionaires you got. to be going to. like. the signals the beginning of a new era. before the 1st manned moon shot nasa brought the space capsule they will 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 and gone out today what could we do you know i took my boat out to sea and stopped the engine and i could hear one calling there is that i did that several times that 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. that you guys are going to be i. was born of a little california my dad was in the navy and we moved from base to base to base and then we ended up in 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 base we had all the amenities we were able to to stay on the base for the 1st 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. dog and her name was chiquita and she scared the hell out of us we had to do a mood test every morning with a banana see if she was going to buy this. when getting off base was just so how

different things were so there was a lot of places to explore and things to do but the people too i think you didn't have nearly as much as the state today but i i do think. that that's humility that i think 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 an out and like so many families that had the maids we kids grew up and sheaf we felt like we were all one you know she would come in pence that she can all welcome . and she just loved us that's why i would be so nice and my mother loved her as well to. see when the bit about it when they came into direct contact with american women. broke the local moral code. all these women have their own cars something almost

unimaginable for the girls from where. 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 in your. local market lady opening up of the dictatorship that took place in the late seventy's began him much earlier. and a little woman in. what. i believe it was 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 funded again and so when i actually arrived in new york i was so impressed where am i am i in a theater i'd never lived draw to before there. were only one need to go then we

went to northwood massachusetts and most of. the country there were wide roads and i thought why don't they build roads like this in spain during the. session handed it to her parents' house and went to high school. student 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 then you know the cia you're going to. i wasn't aware 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 her.

nirvana recorded my brother was a famous bullfighter back then cause. for concern that he had bought a cadillac emitter and organized a party record and you know going to be there if you were going to her memory i never imagined i'd meet an american you know so when i saw this guy that i liked him immediately he was well built women don't miss that kind of thing one. 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 loss of complements. and i did a peter pan freedom. so i invited david gregory

i decided to bring a new thermistor look i wrote a paper called i want to marry. he was a nice friendly person but he was coming nearer he has 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 even like to take a pay cut he said just want to know if you can care for the you promised me when you take a very rich. quick who got up after that i remember a part of the golf course was almost in the village so we kids used to go there you know there was a barbed wire fence there but there was 30 centimeters between the wires so we could slip through. the medium or into the loss 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 until we drop it without miley than that. it was a whole different world for us back then there was a big gap between the backwardness in spain at that time in the american standard of living that gives ground. plane 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 being. played with people when they played baseball they set up stands 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 we step forces here we had 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 share the feria with the americans so it was very cool that cultural. supermarket 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 however they go to you severely in front of the base did. they checked us like they were running a customs checkpoint to come and. they had magazines like penthouse and so on which we didn't have and sports magazines everything you can imagine every brand of tobacco a huge selection of food the meat for example was delivered from germany in refrigerated trucks it was fantastic meat if you could afford it. there was some american products that you can buy everywhere today but at the time chocolate bars and cookies as well as rape and sunglasses were very popular in town the people who had access to the base put them in large quantities and then sold them out of their garages eloy indiana name. although i always asked 1st i did get

a lot of things from the base here. i went so far that one day an american commander his name was captain yang said to me father if you go on like this and take everything with you will have to swim back to america ok i took everything i could people who know me knew that i didn't keep anything for myself it was all for the people of wrote. me one day the chaplain told me he wanted to buy a stereo for a friend but he didn't dare take it off base because the civil guard would confiscated he asked me to pick it up for him i said sure so he bought it on the base and brought it to me i told him to put it in the car next to me he said but how will that work they'll see the packaging i told him just put it there because i'm going to tell them the truth as i drove to the gate the civil guard stopped me and asked me what i was carrying so i said i'm smuggling their reaction was oh

you're always making jokes father and they let me pass. him in. thank. you my no to help my brother a record player because it was very rare in spain back then because it came from the base free philco the american brand of phillips i loved music when i mostly. thought i was mainly influenced by a black man who was married to a woman from. his name was chase. he owned a bar chase place he. played bass guitar and i used to sit there and listen to. people and apparently he noticed that and that i loved his music and so he used to give me all the records he didn't want anymore.

and that's how i started listening to blues jazz rock. no this other new music. he told us i must. be really used to look after the soldiers overseas to make them feel at home the most of the records went on sale there at the same time as they did in stores in new york chicago or london. and my friends used to buy them and then go home and listen to them until the cows came home. because like a look at my level of. the radio station to which we still have today if r.t.s. . back then they actually played great music that was picked up throughout the area that could be received just this is as it is today and i believe that's the same thing that happened when england played music from the bases and it was heard throughout back in the fifty's back in the sixty's that everyone would pick up on

that to go my gosh this is great this is music we can't hear or get anywhere else and they started the station and rode a. number $5960.00 and they started out with just some radio and then they added television. welcome once again to a very good spot because this is a the band's feel that i'm here to bring you what half hour of entertainment is a good musician but i'm listening to the biggest radio station was like a martian was talking to us there was music everywhere you went or not or. you'd be walking down the street or in go in somewhere and suddenly you heard bob dylan on the radio. the 1st time around secure self who the hell is that. this was an incredible stroke of luck for our village we could hear new releases at the push of a button. it took much longer for them to arrive there than in other parts of the

world if at all you could get to tampa and they got. you can go the beatles everybody loves the beatles and they are always coming up with new stuff as well and channels chop and iron butterfly rolling stones the doors sprains everybody love the supremes. gosh jimi hendrix. and all the base housing you can walk in a corner and you sure. cranked out a one stereo you would hear jimi hendrix out of another stereo you would hear carlos santana perhaps is coming out of another stereo so definitely the rock n roll.

must win for them in our main hobby as teenagers was music them into them and one thing led to another we tried to form a band and. we were very young back then maybe 12 years old i played guitar i took a classical guitar and put steel strings on it they cut my finger tips the bass player simply removed 2 strings from a classical guitar leaving just for. our drummer made his drums from detergent cartons which he cut to size and then covered with glossy paper. this is one of the . other component is one of the members of the band the radar's was a carpenter a cabinet maker a very good craftsman. he made my guitar neck by hand. and cut out the body with

a song. like that. you're wondering i was 14 when i arrived here and my mother told me don't go down i'm going to do something not. just something that when there were other ways to get to school but we defied our parents and always walked along the avenue to san fernando which was busier than all the other streets in the city. we have. actually consisted of 2 different towns one along a. very traditional and the other a long avenue to something very american that's where all the american bars and casinos were all of. the together on this so. there was this girl from london her name was janet.

she was pretty and dressed in a way we weren't used to here and russia. she was very very and i'm really scared. i kind of for a jacket get the most freaked out she was the real thing you would get if you come to the. climate but it's a given you're right here in december 917 i had no more than 5 pounds in my pockets and i remember my parents saying to me what are you going to do for a living what are you going to do and the next day i started working at the crazy cancer in. the in which i was so many i remember saying to my mother it's like the las vegas of the southwest. and there were people of all colors on the street rafter was pretty colorful to be able to check there was a lot of partying and there was a bar outside of water that was let's say a bit illegal you see. right there was

a tiny new york. i never slept. trying to involve the locals but it didn't work out maybe because of the double standard of life to. go about. their looking for probably true. drinking. fighting. going. on the one day i came out of the library and saw and i will never forget this a long queue of men in front of a brothel in the avenue just san fernando my friends told me that we should stay home and not go out while the 6th fleet was in town. and that you know the street was full of women on both sidewalks as they waited for the soldiers to come off base those who were granted leave because they did not get it at the same time

there abouts. thousands of them imagine that 6000 young men in their twenty's in a small town when thing here goes in and we're. losing our manager venereal disease colonel parker. has to be sure. that every time there's a war we're going to relive these very takes and you know. one day we got a letter from the commander of the 60 saying several members of his crew were infected with the neural disease. this in the. members of. the american ambassador biddle duke even came to a doctor he asked me what's going on here. i said nothing's going on circular we'll show you everything here. so i took him to the bars of the 2 cabarets and that's all there is a rock. that's all there is mr duke. now ok he said and left one that was if.

you know. the. prosecution brought a lot of money into the town. the local authorities saw it as a violation of religious morality and set up a commission to protect women both locals and outside as from what they said were bad influences. to mr kaitlyn and if. you know my judge from seville send me a letter you want he said you and i could work something out there are too many prostitutes and. his solution was to throw them all in jail i replied that i had a different strategy to marry them off married a lot of girls almost all of them 2 americans. i don't know any of them who married a spaniard you know. because you know you

american boy. soldiers sailors civilians were college boys you were killing your own people and yourself not with. with automobiles. we were always warned keep out of trouble don't talk about politics don't molest women and don't do anything else that isn't completely proper course fellows will charge but of course there are a few bad apples in every basket right. month honest there are always a few boys who cause trouble in town once in a while. i'll be out of almost good advice and quite look out on a scandal when she caught. she'll be found. once you come up for a month or the world will see to a number of oh of course i remember one incident as the americans were celebrating their independence day some drove in from the beach at point took on daughter

completely drunk. in question no fundamental there was a man with 3 children on a donkey one time or he took he said. and doesn't courses his car came off the road in question to the donkey with the 3 children and killed them all. you can't imagine the outrage this caused interest. since you're a member of the armed forces some will be under military control until the trial yes or. this he ends his children were buried the next day and the need be compensated their mother by giving her a job on the base in the case was never heard again. police say that. we the jury find the defendant not guilty.

i really do look forward to seeing my wife again. that's all i intend to do 30 days recovery point. to make them happen when franco died there we were just told hey just go back to business as usual if you see protester you see anything happening just go about your business and and stay out of trouble. you. don't help this mean. everything dead a good gal. and. when i go out to

any good thing. about. hillsong golf. ball. and i'm nothing. when the ships left right there was a lot of time and dry. you could tell they weren't here anymore we lost so many jobs. a mystery to me one their marriage after i stopped driving taxis i started to work in a bodega i had my own business and sold mine on the base i had an idea and i could go in and out as i wished i don't know what it's like there today i don't go there anymore i've been there for 40 years the place they can all be anyone in time you know. the town's cultural roots had almost been lost. later about 30 years ago the old identity started to resurface again people were looking for their own traditions again. the fairy sunny seadrill

festival for the virgin carmen festival and all these things that had been forgotten at that time have now returned and. we even have 14 churches in the city again. for me this is the really interesting the greatest culture shock for me because i grew up here from 8 was not coming here it was going back it was going back to the united states that was my culture shock because i went back and 16 years old and i go oh my goodness going back to my uncle i didn't know what to expect i didn't remember from a spain was home they didn't experiencing of a consciousness you see how different you are in it is a good move even if we went to a town nearby it seemed alien to us quite different from our own. it was a great time it was a magical place rota spain back that was they say a bubble of fishbowl but it was very special that was a beautiful time period and in this town and even the early eighty's but yeah

everybody speaks of the golden years and there's always kind of like a misty foggy memory there she should have been here in the sixty's and seventy's. i. after. jellyfish are mysterious and graceful. in real life and in our true. danish glance artist stephanie. captures their charm is worth. making their due. time. the rolling in 30 minutes long d.w. know.

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