quick reminder now of our top story iran has admitted to shooting down an ukrainian passenger plane and iranian state t.v. says the aircraft was brought down by accident after it flew near a sensitive military side 176 people were killed. up next is a documentary on the spanish fishing village of wrote and the hay date experienced in 1960 s. and seventy's american evan seen i'll be back again at the top of the hour with another news update hope you join me that. it's time to take one step. face to. talk to search the you know. the trends. in the compound trainers and such. it's time for.

coming up ahead. yes it's all pretty common in america. the comfortable homes we live the cars parked up at. the park mechanical got rid of all car. pool work every car has a right to expect an education. satisfying recreation for everybody. american you are. here that have been a bit simpler to you than me in a moment every. time. i came from georgia my dad had a branch at apapa shop and i distilled through a major movie called back marketplace. 18 years old i decided mile just

walking down town with us all a sign says sam wants you to put me in aviation council maybe a ship back again i don't know but man he needed a good great pass along but we don't have a base of us alone it's that we have one really pisses down on the beach so he gave me a check $2000.00 in order to notice things 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 alive in the eye. i was working at my office in the castle. and suddenly i'm not orion's 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 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. from your. book you. see the loss of a foreign country attack the base we have to defend it and defend the americans. because if and when you like 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. i don't go i'm alive and then i was out there ok. right here free to. be about anyone not of my father at a place on a plot of land near a computer. used to store 4 or 5 girls of wine aerator south 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. and i thought of me for that i mean for there was a huge upheaval and hit everyone hard and 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.

it would be going to the i remember the day i saw the 1st american jeep when i started surveying the area. i was looking out to my colleagues and watched the monster drive into a pond and sink me like that. 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 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 to the warships in codis. this was during the draft of the draft if you weren't doing well in school here is a potential to be drafted there's a combination of losing my girlfriend losing my job and talking in 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 from his desk he looked at me and 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 i said sure and it was one time all day cuba london england naples and here was a very strong response. 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 on. electronics was my hobby but my parents couldn't afford to send me to college so i enlisted in the

navy from. there. the final training sessions to spanish air force sergeants told me just go to spain there are a lot of pretty girls there. which i'm heady bonython which of bonita so i said ok then i'll go to spain as luck would have it us where i was assigned to kano post on a submarine support ship because i was a specialist in measuring equipment calibration and there was a laboratory on board to service the submarines. that. there were only 2 main streets that grand way downtown from the base and everything else would just think feel like. special because it was like back home they remind me of. primitive people only different and noticed that when i went to town back in america. i would always back

hamburgers but over here i couldn't. copy you look at all these he didn't say that it was very old fashioned if you can 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 usual so 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. something and they were about 10000 american soldiers and civilians and to me that if you need to go over what it was able to read i remember it like it was yesterday . we were kids playing in the street downtown and suddenly the jets flew over. here we were all paralyzed by the noise what the hell was that. took

a base because they were small. helicopters we call 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 mainly because some locals had lost their homes and land and were in a very difficult situation. and any kind of wondering when the americans arrived they didn't waste any time they took another stuff into the waiting crowd. almost all of us on the dock bent down and tried to grab something better and when. 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. and they. said. give us coins or grammar candy or something. i could imagine that this was the tactic the americans used to build good relations with the spanish people and influence i mean they also did not. represent more. than all right by all the forces of world war 2 we can strike anytime. that any. true love us or that wrote up the road to 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 any silent mobile inducive listed missile submarines the most survivable element in our nation's

money not to clear out its palermo's nuclear submarines can carry up to 16 missiles with a maximum range of approximately 424500 kilometers of those books out of this little system from the usa it would have been too far to retaliate if the soviet union attacked. city imposed stationing the submarines in wrote and later in scotland made it possible to build them and underscores the bush. tolo to possibly. think it may have been because there were there was a place where those ships could come to a place where they could store whatever they wanted the store i don't know where they store their. weapons. have a good ear for forums use

a place for they could do the complications for. live . they have a submarine commander that was stationed there. a transitional place for europe for the minute training and. for hundreds of thousands of young people find employment here i'm growing they do produce things which make life better in peacetime can be our greatest reduction 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.

so i got to see when i became mayor and i worked to build good relations with the naval base because they were the ones who could help us become a spanish state 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. so they're going up on the day. i did it out of love for my hometown ties to the town develop quickly womanhood it was a time of great economic growth something around the.

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 and it was simply could not comprehend that a plumber could have a car. and then go from the never the no one question. was . 1960

wonderful new. cars started appearing in town everyone believed that the americans were all millionaires they got. to be. like. signals the beginning of a new era when. 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 got a plane flew by and started dropping parachutists 14 or 15 of them carrying flashing lights that were 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 i could hear one calling out 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 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 basically. when i got here in 1969 i remember we had the apache. kita and she scares the hell out of us we had to do

a mood 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 who 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 i mean in people being so friendly and 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 but like so many families that had the maids we kids we grew up in sheaf we felt like we were all want you know she would come in pence that she can oh well. and she just loved us that's why 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. that broke the local moral code. all these women had their income was something almost unimaginable for the girls from delta 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 a. book or mark a lady the opening up of the dictatorship that took place in the late seventy's began him much earlier. and he said the little woman in your group about. what. i believe that's 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 one of the young women so when i

actually arrived in new york i was so impressed where am i am i in a theater i'd never left roger before. getting them were only wanted to give me to then we went to northwood massachusetts in massachusetts. because it is their world wide roads and i thought why don't they build roads like this in spain. that. their sexuality i looked at 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 and i don't hear all the time our then no one here to see i want to you're going to. 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. new ban on recorded my brother was a famous bullfighter back then. well when he had 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 a systematised an american a black man he got a lot of compliments. and i did get a few token freedom right. back. i decided to bring a new thermos a look. at your pick of that. he was a nice friendly person but he was coming near. as we intensified investigation i've seen in my life so anyway he finally got down to what you want to know how much money do you make i'm not telling my pay was so how i am able to take a pay cut he said i just want to know can you promise me to take a. quick look at the on up to 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 and. he made us. 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 target 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 bad. play 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 on your. plate

a lot of 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. the frequency and 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 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. and i think that aside 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 grew out of you severely in front of the base did. they checked us like they were running a customs checkpoint practical 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. 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 bought them in large quantities and then sold

them out of their garages heal all in the name. though i always asked 1st i did get a lot of things from the base. 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 these people who know me knew that i didn't keep anything for myself it was all for the people of wrote. to. 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 got 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 would that work they'll see the packaging won't they 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. your mind of the my brother a record player who was very rare in spain back then because he came from the base . philco the american brand of phillips i loved music body armor and i mostly. give 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. took up 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 used to give me all the records he didn't want any more. and that's how i started listening to blues jazz rock no this other new music. he told us i must make. sure i really used to look after the soldiers overseas to make the feel at home 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 home i just. had the radio station to which we still have today if r.t.s. . back then they actually played great music trout in that was picked up throughout the area that could be received just this is as it is today and 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 the nickel my gosh this is great this is music we can't hear or get anywhere else and they started the station and rode a summer $5960.00 and they started out with just radio and then they added tell uncertainly. welcome once again to america's popular because there's a dubious feel that i'm here to bring you a half hour of entertainment news a good musician. listening to the best radio station most like a martian was talking to us there was music everywhere you wonder not. to be walking down the street and going somewhere and suddenly you heard bob dylan on the radio. the 1st time around screw self who the hell is that. this was an

incredible stroke of luck for our village little we can hear new releases at the push of a button. but took much longer for them to arrive there than in other parts of the world if at all you could get to tampa and the guys who can go to you don't $75.00 you love the beatles and they are always coming up with new stuff as well and janis joplin and iron butterfly rolling stones the doors supreme somebody love the supremes oh gosh jimi hendrix. and all the base housing you can walk into court or you sure use a moving cranked out of one stereo you 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 with music them into them and one thing led to another we tried to form a band. we were very young back then maybe 12 years old and i played guitar and i took a classical guitar and put steel strings on it they cut my finger tips and the bass player simply removed 2 strings from a classical guitar leaving just for the feel of them both our drummer made his drums from detergent cartons of the 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 craftsmen. he made my guitar neck by hand and cut out the body with a saw. cause 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 money system in there when there were other ways to get to school than what we defied our parents and always walked along the avenue to san fernando which was busier than all the other streets in the city and the market because of that we had. actually consisted of 2 different towns one along kyra colorado very traditional in the other along up in need of something very american that's why the american bars are casinos were the last thing on.

it and that together under this system there was this girl from london her name was janet. she was pretty dressed in a way we weren't used to here an. idiom would be and we were very proud of her in a mini skirt. and a kind of fur jacket and if i get the most freaked out she was the real thing you would get if you're going to the. play. that is the caveat you arrived here in december 972 i had no more than 5 pounds in my pocket 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 looking at the crazy can't even get a look at. him which 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 in which there was a lot of partying and there was a bar outside of course 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. that. they're 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. 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 will imagine that $6000.00 young men in their twenty's in a small town bring them here to us and we're. getting a lot of money. back. consider yourself. because every time there's a war going to be a loser you very taken just. 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. us with. the american ambassador biddle duke even came to. ask me what's going on here. 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 in iraq. that's all there is mr do. now ok he said and left one that was if. you so for you know. that 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 with bad influences. caitlin and if. i might judge from seville send me a letter. 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 to married

a lot of girls almost all of them to americans. i don't know any of them who married a spaniard you know. because you know you american boy. soldiers civilians were college boy. you're killing your own people and yourselves not with guns. with automobiles. we're always warning keep out of trouble don't talk about politics don't molest women and don't do anything else that isn't completely proper for syllable shots 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 kid of us in quite a local shot or on a scandal when she caught. she'll be crowned. times you can.

see to a number of though of course i remember one incident as the americans were celebrating their independence day some drove in from the beach at point 0 connaught completely drunk. in question no one dominant there was a man with 3 children talking one time or he took he said. and doesn't cause their car came off the road and pressed 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. yes he ends his children were buried the next day and then maybe 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. would you look forward to my wife. that's all i intend to do 30 days recovery. from happen when frank would die that 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 means. everything. good. you'll make

the planet. a good thing to you about. hillsong and. bring. about nothing. when the ships left but i was left time and dry if. you could tell they weren't here anymore we've lost so many jobs it's not a good thing to the a mystery to me on the matter after i stop driving taxis i started to work in a bodega hired 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 do you know i'm been there for 40 years the place they and only any one in tiny. towns cultural roots had almost been lost. later about 30 years ago the old identities started to

resurface again people were looking for their own traditions again. the fairy the sun the seadrill festival 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 we've got of if you. 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 inexperience in other cultures lets you see how different you are in it is a good move even home but if we went to a town nearby it seemed alien to us quite different from our own among most of the

it was a great time it was a magical place rota spain back that was they say a bubble a 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 the golden years of proto and there's always kind of like a misty foggy memory there of oh gosh she should have been here in the sixty's and seventy's. bundle up it's pretty cold here europe's largest ice sculpture festival. the artists hammer and. you'll be

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