round's blockading the city center you're seeing live images now from that city center area where pro-democracy protesters have been marching in defiance of an official ban for the 2nd straight day unrest is expected to continue into the night it's that 2nd day of clashes between crowds and police and the latest in what's being called hong kong's summer of discontent. watching the news live from berlin more news at the top of the hour will be that. stain for. the language horse and. video for you. any time anywhere. w.

media center. yes it's all pretty common for asian american. a comfortable home we live in a car parked at the. upright mechanical got its own car. pool for every child has a right to expect going to your parish. satisfying recreation for everybody. in america you are. here heaven a. new. american dream. come true my. mom and i came from georgia my dad had a branch at apapa shot and i'm just still in the a major movie called black market. 18 years old i decided. just

walking downtown. seoul sign says sam wants you to put me in aviation council maybe a ship back again i don't know but now you need it good grades. but we don't have a basic pass along. that we have one room this is down on the beach so he gave me a check. and already noticed me. and that's why i've been ever since.

on october 14th 1953 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 alive and i. could tell up on the gold star i was working at my office in the castle. and suddenly i don't know writes frank i was here 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 wants franco was looking around and suddenly said could you please tell me where the salado reverse. commute and 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. 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 in 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. is a great. gift. from your american people. if a foreign country attacked the base we have to defend it and defend the americans. get offended like but listen if you have the most impressive firepower in the world and aircraft an atomic bombs because there were atom bombs here what are we going

to defend for you. know i'm a live and then i was not there ok. right here then. my father had a place on a plot of land near a computer. me used to store 4 or 5 girls of wine aerator 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 way out of me for that i mean for there 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 realized there were alternatives that only came later be no they put.

you know what you look the media i remember the day i saw the 1st american jeep when i started surveying the area that i was looking out to my colleagues and watched the monster drive into a pond and sink me like who do. you. mean my friends used to catch mackerel for a living. 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. 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 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 to the warships in counties like. this was during the draft saw the draft and if you weren't doing well in school there is a potential to be drafted there's a combination of the missing girl for losing my job and flunking a 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 set up from his desk he looked at me he said you want to join the marine corps right son and i said i sure do he said and you want to join for 4 years right and he said i sure did and it was one time all day cuba london england naples and here was a very very strong risk they are going to spain. so 2 times that i really. did not have to go to vietnam during the sixty's. c in army green. and. 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 will be this by us by year which i'm happy bunny that much of bonita so i said ok then i'll go to spain as luck would have it us where 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 were only 2 main streets that grand way downtown from the base and everything else we just think feels like. special because it was like back home they remind me of. people only different time notice then when i went to town back in a. i would always back hamburger but over here.

you look at all the seats i didn't say that it was very old fashioned i prefer to just say that it was very different cultures 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 skase ecosystem see. and they were about $10000.00 american soldiers and civilians and. i remember it like it was yesterday. we were kids playing in the street downtown and suddenly the jets flew over. here we're all paralyzed by the noise what the hell is 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 i saw a flying saucer. when the americans arrived they were 1st met with rejection because some locals had lost their homes and land and were in a very difficult situation. and you can run them in here 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 i want to. get you on your arm those were difficult years in spain. it was the post-war period here and there was a shortage of everything. so when we kids. the americans in the street were asking

for money to set up a center. and they'd say the city. set out cheaply they'd give us koreans or gone more candy or something because i could imagine that this was the tactic the americans used to build good relations with the spanish people in florida and he also did not. represent more. by all the forces of world war 2 we can strike anytime. that any. watching. through all of us here 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 inducive lifted missile suffering the most survivable element in our nation the pleiades palermo's

nuclear submarines can carry up to 16 missiles with a maximum range of approximately 424500 kilometers in those books out of this little system from the usa it would have been too far to retaliate if the soviet union attacked. the stationing the submarines in rota and later in scotland made it possible to get them in and. bush. i think it may have been because never it was a place where those ships could come in place where they could store whatever they want to store i don't know the story there.

good airforce lucifer a place where they could do. strong. labor suffering tender there was stationed there. is a transition in place for europe for the minute training and. hundreds of thousands of young people find employment each year. 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.

and that's all i'm going to do when i became mayor i worked to build good relations with the naval base. they were the ones who could help us and the spanish they hardly supported us at all. at 1st the americans couldn't believe it they said your mayor you must make a lot of money but i didn't do it for money. other 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 something on the.

looking at the workers of the world i focus. 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. my father said it was propaganda he said he simply could not comprehend that a plumber could have a car. there go funtime never the no question. it

was a. 1960 wonderful new. car started appearing in town everyone believed that the americans were all millionaires. to be. like. the signals the beginning of a new era. before the 1st manned moon shot like 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 and gone out today that what could we do i took my boat out to sea and stop the engine i could hear one calling out there is that i did. 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 only when they jumped into my boat they hugged and kissed me like it was their wedding day. 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 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. in the i got here in 1969

i remember we had a pet. dog and her name was chiquita and she scares the hell out of us we had to do a blood test every morning with a banana see she was going to buy this. when getting off base was just how different things were so there was a lot of places to explore and things to do but the people. 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 mean in people being so friendly in reaching 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 and sure if we felt like we were all one you know she would come in pence that she can know well. and she just loved us that's what i would be so nice and my mother loved her as well to.

when the got about up with they came into direct contact with american women. that broke the local moral code. all these women have their own cars something almost unimaginable for the girls from rota we're talking about the early 1960 s. they could easily obtain certain contraceptives that were not available in spain at the time. you know women could do little more than read and write in your. bottle markedly anything up of the dictatorship that took place in the late seventy's began him much earlier and he's a little woman and you're going to. put. a veil on the last 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 by anyone and so when i actually

arrived in new york i was so impressed where am i am i in a theater i've never left wrote a before. were only one even given a then we went to northwood massachusetts and not such a thing. because it is their worldwide roads and i thought why don't they build roads like this and spain. in that. way i guess i should manage it i looked at her parents' house and went to high school. and to do it every week her mother gave me money but i didn't spend it i saved it all and i don't you know all the time our then over then you know they see i want to 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 a. nearby no record it my brother was a famous bullfighter back then. well when you have bought a cadillac and organized a party. i never imagined i'd meet an american so when i saw this guy there 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 to systematise an american a black man he got a lot of compliments. and i did get a feel for freedom. i decided to break a new thermistor look i wrote a paper called that. he was a nice friendly person but he was coming near. intensified investigation obscene in my life so anyway he finally got down to what you want to know is how much money do you make among the teller my pay was so happy for him. to take care of the guy he said just want to know if you can you promise me when you take a. quick look at the 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 media. 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. not without. a doubt 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. through bare ground. when that's not when we went on base it was like being in an american movie. because what we saw in these really wants their way of life you're seeing. a

lot of people you know 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. the frequency and we would have a 4th of july down the beach that forces you know we had a rodeo and we had a big rodeo right across from the drive in theater and that's where they 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 exchange. supermarket symbol of the high standard of living in this country today. look at mind that it's not what interested the people in the most with the products

and the so-called maybe exchange the commissary which was actually the americans department store. the navy exchange just wanted to sell as much as possible they didn't care if you were american or spanish however they grew out of you severely in front of the pasted. they checked us like they were running a customs checkpoint back to come and. they had magazines like penthouse and so on which we didn't have and sports magazines here 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. if. 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 illinois indiana name in that case. 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. 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 what i told him just put it there

because i'm going to tell them the truth as i drove through 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 bother and they let me pass. in the. him i don't think my brother at a record player because there was very rare in spain back then he came from the base free philco the american brand of philips and i loved music when i mostly got. back but i was mainly influenced by a black man who was married to a woman from toronto. his name was chase. he owned a bar and chase's place 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 there's other new music. he told us i must. surely use to look after the soldiers overseas to make them feel at home the records went on sale there at the same time as they did in stores in new york chicago or london. lyon my friends used to buy them and then go home and listen to them until the cows came home. who because like a look at my home office. the radio station to which we still have today they have r.t.s. . back then they actually play great music throughout and that was picked up throughout the area that could be received just this is as it is today and i am

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 all my gosh this is great this is music we can't hear or get anywhere else and they started the station and wrote. summer $5960.00 and they started out with just radio and then they added television. hello there welcome once again to america's pop. this is a d.v.d. it's failed it i'm here to bring you what half hour of entertainment is a good decision but i'm not listening to the base radio station was like a martian was talking to us there was music everywhere you went and wrote and. you'd be walking down the street you didn't go in somewhere and suddenly you heard bob dylan on the radio. the 1st time around yourself 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 love the beatles and they are always coming up with new stuff as well and chana stopped when an iron butterfly rolling stones the doors sprayed i'm sorry buddy love the supremes. gosh jimi hendrix. and all the base housing you can walk in a corner and you sure. moving cranked out of one stereo you would hear jimi hendrix out of another stereo you would hear scarlett santana praxis coming out of another stereo so definitely the rock n roll.

must win the game 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 and i played guitar but i took a classical guitar and put steel strings on and they cut my finger tips like that but you know 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 costly 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 you know a very good craftsman. he made my guitar neck by hand. and cut out the body with a saw. the cars and i could have. just wondered if i was 14 when i arrived here and my mother told me don't go down i'm going to do something not. the sort of what is this i mean there were 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 it's because of that we have. actually consisted of 2 different towns one along. very traditional and the other a long avenue to something under very american that's were all the american bars and casinos were the last time i know.

that you got that on the list so you might like janet there was this girl from london their name was janet. she was pretty and dressed in a way we weren't used to here in russia. and we've been. very very in a mini skirt. and a kind of fur jacket. and most freaked out she was the real thing you were going to. meet but if you arrived 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 catch in. the am she 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 rotor was pretty

colorful the object there was a lot of partying and there was a bar outside of hotel 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 there. they're looking for probably true. drinking. one day i came out of the library and saw and i will never forget this a long queue of men in front of the brothel in the avenue. my friends told me that we should stay home and not go out while the 6th fleet was in town. and that you

know in wichita 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 were about 6000 of them imagine that 6000 young men in their twenty's in a small town when thing here. and we're. losing a lot of amanda venereal disease grandma. can see for yourself. because every time there's a war we're going to relive these retakes and you're. here one day we got a letter from the commander of the 60 saying several members of his crew were infected with an aerial disease. this in the. us was. the american ambassador biddle duke even came to our daughter asked me what's going on here and. i said nothing's going on sir show you everything here. so i

took him to the bars on the 2 cabarets and that's all there is an. that's all there is mr do. now ok he said and left what was it. he said you know. prostitution 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. of a systematic a killing in the foot. you know might 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 the man married

a lot of girls almost all of them 2 americans. i don't know any of them who married a spaniard you know only one of. 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 willis was shot but of course there are a few bad apples in every basket right. there were always a few boys who cause trouble in town once in a while. i'll be out of almost good advice and quite look i'll start on a scandal when she caught. him so you can.

see who will remember most of course i remember one incident as the americans were celebrating their independence day some drove in from the beach at point took on board completely drunk. in question. there was a man with 3 children talking one time or he took he said. and doesn't courses his car came off the road and crashed into 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 son will be under military control until the trial yes or. this he and 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. probably see 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. to come happened when frank would die that we were just told hey just go back to business as usual if you see protest or you see anything happening just go about your business and and stay out of trouble. you. don't help this mean. i do everything. good get. you know me

and the when i go out. a good thing. goes on golf and golf great. but nothing. when the ships left rotor was left tiny and dry. you could tell they weren't here anymore we've lost so many jobs. a mystery to me one of your 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 putting in all the anyone any time you. get you 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. 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 that experiencing other cultures that you see how different you were i mean it's 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 wrote a spam back that was they say a bubble a fishbowl but it was very special that was a beautiful time period and this town and even the early eighty's but yeah everybody speaks the golden years of frodo and there's soyuz kind of like a misty foggy memory there she should have been here in the sixty's and seventy's. meet the artist today we speak to him she came to camp blues a refugee when she was just a john of today she's a lawyer author and show host successful and full of bright do i.d.'s she talks about how canada became her mom someone pick me up and help me in the mountains

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